“The scholar credited with first exposing fabulist academic Jason Arday’s plagiarism and biographical embellishments has been suspended by his university in the wake of Arday’s apparent suicide,” reports The College Fix.
“I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me,” Nathan Cofnas posted on social media yesterday. “The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.”
“Arday made history as the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge. While questions and concerns were raised both internally and more recently in media reports” regarding his sloppy and fabricated research and plagiarism, his fall from grace is primarily attributed to Cofnas’ Substack article “DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge.”
Cofnas described the plagiarism in Arday’s dissertation and described the absurdity of Arday’s far-fetched biographical claims.
As The College Fix notes, “Arday had described himself as non-verbal until age 11 and said he could not read or write until age 18.” He absurdly claimed “he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, claims to have raised millions of dollars for charities in recent decades, and alleged he was sent bananas, bullets, and a pig’s head in the mail.” He lied about his employment history. Ohio State University “recently debunked Arday’s claim he was once a visiting” professor there.
Arday called the cops on people who attempted to blow the whistle on his plagiarism and research misconduct, claiming a reporter’s attempts to contact him were discriminatory harassment. Arday fabricated quotes he attributed to people, and fabricated research he did not actually conduct. As The Dispatch explains, the University of “Cambridge knew since at least 2023 that Arday appeared to have plagiarized some of his work and to have fabricated some of his interviews but refused to engage in anything like a full investigation.” As it adds, “Arday had no meaningful track record in academia; he hadn’t produced anything of note and openly stated that…when he was at work, ‘90% of the time I don’t know what is going on but I am having to pretend I know what is going on.’ Despite that, he had been appointed to an ‘established chair at Cambridge’…which is ‘a permanently funded position that comes with prestige and research support [and] is among the academic world’s most sought-after jobs.’”
By crying “racism” and “harassment,” Arday was able to use British cops to intimidate a journalist investigating his plagiarism and research misconduct. As the BBC reports,
The head of the Metropolitan Police has said his force should not have investigated a journalist who was looking into plagiarism claims about a University of Cambridge professor.
Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers “dropped the ball” when they looked into a complaint made against journalist Jack Grove over his attempts to contact Prof Jason Arday.
Sir Mark told broadcaster LBC the complaint should have been “screened out earlier on as not requiring investigation”.
Arday, who resigned from Cambridge on Wednesday, has has admitted errors in his work….
Times Higher Education (THE) reporter Grove said he had been investigating allegations Arday had plagiarised parts of his PhD, and contacted him in 2025 to offer him the right of reply.
“In early February I received a call from a Met police officer saying that a complaint had been raised against me by someone and Professor Arday was very distressed and I shouldn’t contact him again,” Grove told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“It was a complete shock. Apparently it was for harassment but I hadn’t contacted him for four months and then maybe I think I’ve only sent three or four emails to him in total.”
Many college DEI officials have committed large-scale plagiarism. At the National Review, Madeleine Kearns notes that Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium “has uncovered an ants’ nest with plagiarism among the DEI ruling class at American universities. The latest instance … is ‘the chief diversity officer of Columbia University’s medical school, Alade McKen, [who] plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting huge chunks of material without attribution. Two pages in the dissertation come directly from Wikipedia.’”
McKen has plagiarized around 30 authors.
The chief diversity officer’s plagiarism comprised a fifth of his 163-page dissertation, “‘UBUNTU’ I am because we are: A case study examining the experiences of an African-centered Rites of Passage program within a community-based organization,” which was submitted to Iowa State University’s School of Education in 2021. More than two of those pages are a near-verbatim facsimile of Wikipedia’s entry on “Afrocentric education,” which is not cited anywhere in the dissertation. “Other pages lift paragraphs from well-known African scholars, including the University of Rwanda’s Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, while making small tweaks to their prose, such as reordering certain clauses or changing a ‘were’ to a ‘was.’”
“McKen also lifts a jargon-filled passage from LaGarrett King, a scholar of black education at the University of Buffalo who urges the ‘dismantling’ of ‘white epistemic logic.’”
Multiple other DEI officials have also committed obvious plagiarism. For example, “complaints have alleged that Harvard Extension School’s Title IX coordinator, Shirley Greene, copied paragraphs and tables from other scholars without proper attribution and that Harvard University’s chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, took credit for an entire study done by her husband. The allegations against both officials followed the downfall of former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned after nearly half her published work was implicated in a plagiarism scandal.”
A black college president in Maryland engaged in plagiarism on a vast scale, in addition to systematically discriminating against white people. She recycled other people’s papers without even citing them in her 1986 doctoral dissertation. She also allegedly engaged in a scheme to steal thousands of iPads intended for poor students.
Plagiarist Claudine Gay, Harvard’s ex-president, “was obviously a diversity hire,” reports The College Fix. Billionaire Bill Ackman, a major donor to his alma mater, “confirmed with ‘multiple sources,’ that the presidential search committee ‘excluded non-DEI eligible candidates from the process’” before selecting Gay as president.
Gay, a mediocrity, sought to get rid of Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer, a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, after Fryer conducted a study that found that police shootings are not generally racially biased against blacks — shutting down Professor Fryer’s lab and harming his staff in the process — as is discussed in Rob Montz‘s documentary, Why Did Harvard Cancel Its Best Black Professor. In 2019, 9 unarmed black people were shot and killed by police while on duty, compared with 19 whites, in a country of over 330 million people, yet progressive academics falsely claim that police kill thousands of unarmed blacks each year. A prominent black economist noted that Roland Fryer is a “gifted economist” — “He was awarded the American Economics Association’s John Bates Clark Medal” and “his publications appeared in some of the most distinguished journals in the field, and his scholarship was regularly covered in the mainstream media.” But Claudine Gay, a DEI mediocrity, tried to get rid of him, and succeeded in shutting down his lab.
Fryer was targeted because his study undermined false progressive beliefs about whites being dangerous to blacks. Progressive Congresswoman Ilhan Omar falsely claimed that “white men” are “causing most of the deaths within this country,” a claim that is at odds with federal crime statistics. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports showed that in 2019, 6,425 “murder offenders” were black, compared to only 4,728 who were white. Yet, Omar told the TV network Al Jazeera that “our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.”
Contrary to the false impression left by people like Omar, most interracial violent crimes are not committed by whites. In 2018, federal crime statistics showed that there were 547,948 “interracial violent crime incidents” committed by blacks against whites in 2018, compared to 112,365 committed by whites against blacks.
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