Academic who raised plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday suspended by his university
The university said his public comments crossed academic debate and became a targeted campaign of professional elimination.
- On Thursday, Ghent University suspended postdoctoral researcher Nathan Cofnas, launching a preliminary disciplinary investigation into his public statements regarding plagiarism allegations against late Cambridge professor Jason Arday.
- In late July, Cofnas published evidence on Substack showing large sections of Arday's 2015 PhD thesis at Liverpool John Moores University were taken nearly verbatim from a 2009 dissertation by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers.
- Rector Petra De Sutter and vice-rector Herwig Reynaert stated that while Ghent values academic freedom, "that freedom is not unlimited" and must be restricted to protect others' rights.
- Cofnas confirmed his suspension on Thursday, stating "They will almost certainly fire me," as more than 30,000 people attended a vigil in Trafalgar Square for Arday, found dead in London on August 14.
- Cofnas, who describes himself as a "race realist," previously left Cambridge's Emmanuel College in 2024 amid controversy over his writings on race and intelligence, positioning the suspension within broader institutional tensions.
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Nathan Cofnas, the American academic who raised plagiarism charges against the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday, said on Thursday (20) that he was suspended by the University of Ghent in Belgium and that he is being investigated for discrimination. Arday, who was already acclaimed as the youngest black professor in Cambridge, was found dead, at 41 years old, in London on Friday, days after resigning from office. Arday had denied the plagiari…
After months of protest, Ghent University is finally taking action against ‘racial realist’ Nathan Cofnas. Earlier this month, he published the plagiarism of Jason...
One university suspended the investigator who accused a former Cambridge professor who was found dead of plagiarism.
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