An investor advocating for the removal of Harvard's president, Bill Ackman.

 Accusations of plagiarism appear to be the newest weapon in the fierce battle for the direction and management of elite colleges. Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has been using social media in recent weeks to criticize Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, for allegedly copying other academics' work and for allegedly not doing more to combat antisemitism on campus.

Oxman, an American-Israeli designer, held a tenure-track position at MIT before departing to relocate to New York.

Concerning technical passages that lacked the appropriate quotation marks for correct citations, the article emphasized problems that were also present in Gay's scholarly work.

Ackman stood by his criticism of Gay, even going so far as to state that her "serious plagiarism issues" should prevent her from continuing as a faculty member. However, on Thursday, he defended his wife in a post on X, stating that "part of what makes her human is that she makes mistakes."