UW Diversity Chief Hit With Second Academic Fraud Complaint — Plagiarized, Used Identical Material in Different Journal Articles

Yet another diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrat at a major university has perpetrated major academic fraud, a complaint has alleged.

An anonymous allegation and analysis by the Washington Free Beacon charges LaVar Charleston, head of diversity at the University of Wisconsin, with plagiarism and recycling previously published work.

The university is already investigating him in another recycling case involving his wife, Sherri Ann, Harvard University’s diversity chief, who is also accused of plagiarism.

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LaVar Charleston—who once assaulted a police officer—passed off old studies as new research at least five timeshttps://t.co/KELCjZfswD

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 21, 2024

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The Fraud and Plagiarism

The award-winning Charleston “inflated” his credentials, the Free Beacon reported, by publishing the same work in different journals. 

“In 2014, for example, he published a pair of papers in two separate journals — the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education and the Journal of Progressive Policy & Practice — that are near-verbatim copies of each other,” the website reported:

Both describe a 15-person focus group conducted…