Jason Arday’s rise and fall tells a larger story about academia, a critic says

Supporters leave flowers and photographs at a vigil for late Cambridge professor Jason Arday in London on Aug. 17. Arday died Aug. 14 at age 41 amid allegations of plagiarism and embellishing his biography.

What can academia learn from Jason Arday’s rise and fall? Atlantic staff writer and former academic Tyler Austin Harper weighs the questions his story left behind.

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