The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university’s school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to a complaint filed with the university on Wednesday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis. This misconduct includes presenting older studies as new research. He has done this at least five different times in his career.
The complaint, which was filed anonymously, implicates eight of Charleston’s publications, many of them coauthored, and accuses him of plagiarizing other scholars as well as duplicating his own work. It comes as the university is already investigating Charleston over a separate complaint filed in January, alleging that a 2014 study by him and his wife—Harvard University’s chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston—is a facsimile of a study he published in 2012.
Peter Wood, former associate professor at Boston University and head of the National Association of Scholars, said: “This is a case of serial deception and misrepresentation.” “The closest comparison would be if someone sold the same property to five different purchasers, who were all unaware of…
