Billionaire Harvard donor Bill Ackman helped lead the push to unseat Prof. Claudine Gay as the University’s president. The final straw was an accusation of plagiarism in Prof. Gay’s past. Now, Ackman’s wife Prof. Neri Oxman has apologized for issues with her own research. What difference will all this make in the fight over DEI initiatives? I explain who Neri Oxman is, how she responded to the plagiarism accusations, and what it means for the debate over higher education.

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