The Boston Globe: MIT facing threat of plagiarism investigation from the outside, complaints of antisemitism on the inside

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From the outside, MIT appears to have stabilized in the wake of Kornbluth’s participation in a disastrous congressional hearing in December on campus antisemitism. Kornbluth, the only university president of three involved in the hearing who still has her job, appears to retain faculty support.

But all is not well at MIT. The Israel-Hamas war exposed divisions on campus, complaints about antisemitism persist, Jewish alumni are unhappy, and a ruffled billionaire is coming after faculty with an unprecedented investigation of published papers.

Read the full piece in The Boston Globe.