In the aftermath of a scandal at Harvard University, billionaire investor Bill Ackman has set his sights on Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Sally Kornbluth for a plagiarism check. This move comes in response to allegations that his wife, Neri Oxman, plagiarized parts of her dissertation while at MIT.

The controversy surrounding Oxman's 2010 PhD dissertation surfaced in a report by Business Insider on January 4. The report claimed that Oxman had copied passages from other authors without proper citation. In response to the allegations, Oxman took to social platform X (formerly Twitter) to apologize for the errors and acknowledged her mistakes in citing sources.

At a recent Congressional hearing, Kornbluth, along with former presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, faced criticism for not denouncing calls for genocide against Jews, which violated university policy. Bill Ackman emerged as one of the vocal opponents of these actions.

In a post on X, Ackman addressed the Business Insider report, expressing concern that his efforts to address issues in higher education had led to "attacks on my family." He announced that MIT would be conducting a comprehensive plagiarism review of all its current faculty members, including President Kornbluth, as well as other officers and board members of the institution.

"This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews. We will begin with a review of the work of all current @MIT faculty members, President Kornbluth, other officers of the Corporation, and its board members for plagiarism," Ackman stated in a tweet.

Following the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay due to plagiarism allegations, Ackman tweeted, "Et tu Sally?" in reference to Kornbluth. However, Kornbluth has not indicated any intentions of resigning. In a statement released this week, she announced the formation of a new committee on campus expression and academic freedom, as well as initiatives to investigate the school's handling of misconduct accusations.

As Bill Ackman's scrutiny expands beyond Harvard University, the MIT community waits to see how President Kornbluth and other faculty members will respond to the call for a plagiarism check.