#1: NYU (Abu Dhabi) Professor Steals Student Classwork
Last month, Political Analysis, the top field journal in political methodology, published a correction:
Dr. Aaron Kaufman, Associate Professor of Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi, published a “joint class project” completed by two of his students as his own solo paper in this journal. The correction “acknowledges their foundational contribution to the development of the ideas and methods.”
The correction does not add either student as a coauthor. Nor does it explain how a joint student project became Kaufman’s solo-authored publication, or why it took approximately three years to correct.
#2: Cambridge Launches Probe Into My Investigation
Following this investigation into a paper mill at Elsevier:
I have now received word that Dr. Anna Du, one of the paper mill’s ringleaders, is under investigation by both her primary employer (Edinburgh Napier University) as well as by the University of Cambridge, whom she uses as her main and, in fact, only affiliation when trading manuscripts as an Elsevier editor:
Statement from a University of Cambridge spokesperson:
“We have undertaken enquiries in the University and we have not received this complaint before. Anna Min Du is not employed by the University of Cambridge. We are reviewing this matter.”
Statement from a Edinburgh Napier University spokesperson (he/him):
“Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will look into it.”
#3: Debate Update
Not really academia-related, but results are in and I won this debate with 78% of the vote:
I am moving on to the next round, and the winner of the tournament gets $5,000.
#4: Northwestern Shuts Down African Studies
Northwestern is shutting down its flagship Program of African Studies, stripping it of its status as a university research center at the end of August.
This comes despite Northwestern being home to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, the “largest Africana collection in existence.”
In other words, Northwestern spent nearly 80 years building the world’s premier institutions for African scholarship, only to now dismantle it to appease Trump.
#5: Administrator Bloodbath at Harvard FAS
My YouTube channel is still going strong, I have now published 12 videos and gotten this many views on each: 2k, 170k, 7k, 23k, 1k, 4k, 1k, 65k, 4k, 4k, 14k, 10k.
The average is 25k per video. I’m thrilled.
I published this video last week, “Harvard’s PhD Bloodbath”:
After publishing it, Harvard then announced that they were laying off more than 30% of administrators at their Faculty of Arts and Sciences:
#6: Claudine Gay set to Testify in Francesca Gino Trial
Claudine Gay has been ordered to sit for a two-hour deposition in Francesca Gino’s lawsuit:
