Harvard President Claudine Gay submitted corrections to two articles published in 2001 and 2017, after the Harvard Corporation acknowledged allegations of plagiarism against her earlier this week, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an emailed statement on Friday.

The corrections involve adding “quotation marks and citations” referencing three articles from which Gay was accused of plagiarizing, Swain wrote.

The announcement that Gay submitted corrections to two scholarly articles concludes an extraordinary week for Harvard’s beleaguered president. The Harvard Corporation weighed asking Gay to resign during her first semester at the helm of the University, before opting to publicly back Gay on Tuesday.

The Corporation — Harvard’s highest governing body — wrote that its members “became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles,” in their Tuesday statement.

The board wrote that it “initiated an independent review” of Gay’s published scholarship at her own request, which “revealed a few instances of inadequate citation.”

“While the analysis found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications,” the Corporation’s statement said.

Conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo and journalist Christopher Brunet first accused Gay of plagiarism in a Substack post, followed by subsequent reporting by the Washington Free Beacon and the New York Post and a later post circulated on X by Rufo.

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