In the continuation of a trend rocking “elite” institutions, Columbia University Medical Center’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officer has been accused of massive plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation — to include copying content from Wikipedia and poaching the work of 27 other writers.
The accusations against Alade McKen came via a 55-page complaint anonymously submitted to the New York City Ivy League school this week and first published online by Washington Free Beacon. McKen’s dissertation was submitted in 2021at the Iowa State University School of Education. It’s title: “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.”
McKen took his post at Columbia in September. The job was created in 2021 as part of a Columbia quest to vanquish “structural racism” in health care. Just two weeks ago, McKen was quoted in a university profile as declaring that “everyone” in the DEI office is “committed to doing the work.”
Maybe the work of setting race relations back decades by imposing counterproductive DEI doctrine on Columbia Medical Center, but apparently not the work of doctoral dissertations.
Hellbound and Down 