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Central Michigan University president Neil MacKinnon addresses the uncertainty about the Flock cameras located on campus at the academic senate meeting in French Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (CM-Life | Jasmine Brookins)

Nathan Cofnas, a U.S. academic, has been temporarily suspended by Belgium’s Ghent University. Allegations of discrimination relate to Cofnas’s claims of plagiarism against the late Jason Arday, once known as Cambridge University’s youngest Black professor.

The streets of central London were filled with thousands of mourners on Monday as they paid tribute to Jason Arday, an esteemed academic who recently passed away. The late professor was under scrutiny for plagiarism allegations involving his PhD thesis, tarnishing his groundbreaking role as Cambridge’s youngest Black professor.