THE SELF-SERVING IS SELF-EVIDENT: As Harvard Dean, Claudine Gay Weakened Faculty Plagiarism Policy. The Corporation Leaned on That Policy To Try To Save Her Job. “Before she became the shortest-serving president in Harvard’s history, Claudine Gay watered down the school’s policy on research misconduct, making it more difficult to sanction faculty members for plagiarism—and greenlighting the very rules the school invoked in a last-ditch effort to save her job.”