The Questions Jason Arday's Life and Death Raise for Academia : Consider This From NPR
Plagiarism allegations and CV concerns against the youngest Black professor at Cambridge prompted his resignation in early August and death by suicide days later.
- Professor Jason Arday, Cambridge University's youngest Black professor in its 800-year history, died by suicide on August 14, just days after resigning from his position.
- Arday faced growing criticism concerning his PhD thesis and accounts of his personal achievements, prompting his resignation from Cambridge in early August.
- More than 30,000 people gathered outside the National Gallery to pay tribute, while a Good Law Project petition signed by 90,000 people demands an inquiry into media coverage, citing "two weeks of relentless harassment."
- Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy read a family statement saying "the public cruelty Jason was subjected to was too much for any man to bear." Lord Woolley, a friend, called the criticism a "public execution."
- Sir Patrick Vernon established a GoFundMe page that has collected more than £170,000 in donations. Arday's family concluded, "Although it is bittersweet, now kindness is needed in life, not just in death.
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Jason Arday and Media’s Boiling Cauldron of Woke
I can’t stop thinking about Jason Arday. He is the British-Ghanaian professor at Cambridge University who was credibly accused of plagiarizing academic work and embellishing his life story in a storm of controversy in the past month, countered by accusations of racism that fell flat and ended suddenly with his resignation from the university in early August and his death by suicide a week after that. It’s a tragedy, a nauseating one, drawn in …
With the disengagement of the state, universities are financed through exorbitant tuition fees and have to meet the expectations of student-consumers: Cambridge has posted Jason Arday as a "poster boy" of diversity for lack of a fair, humane and transparent recruitment process, says Philippe Marlière, professor at the University College London.
The witch hunt of the third millennium does not need an apparatus, nor a set-up. The inquisition not organized but widespread, pervasive, fierce....
The reactionary right denounced his alleged plagiarism and falsehoods to attack diversity policies in academia
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