Jason Arday. Credit: St Mary’s University, London YouTube screenshotA far-left professor once hailed as “diversity’s poster boy” before his career was ruined in a massive plagiarism scandal has now ‘unexpectedly’ passed away.As the UK Telegraph reported, scandal-plagued Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was discovered dead on Friday after resigning his position earlier this month at the school over credible allegations that he plagiarized and lied on his resume.The paper notes that the 41-year-old Arday was found “unresponsive” in south London and later pronounced dead.“Sadly, a 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next-of-kin have been informed and are being supported by officers,” a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told the Telegraph.The spokesman added that Arday’s death was surprising, though not suspicious.“At this time, his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious. The case is being investigated by officers from the Met’s Central South Command Unit. A file will be prepared for the coroner.”Arday was once hailed as the poster child for DEI after becoming the youngest-ever black professor at Cambridge in March of 2023.Outlets from across the world lavished him with embarrassing praise, calling him a “superstar academic,” a “diversity poster boy“, and even “the world’s most famous living sociologist.”The Guardian notes that Arday delivered a speech at the 75th-anniversary conference of the British Sociological Association, claiming that white conservative and right-wing activists have utilized a distinctive “playbook” to discredit black academics by accusing them of plagiarism and citation errors.Arday added that this was a “cancer” that must be eradicated from academia.Then his own examples of plagiarism were leaked.Here’s the background via Euronews:A Substack post by Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the University of Ghent and a self-defined “race realist” who was fired by Cambridge’s Emmanuel College in 2024, claimed that Arday’s PhD thesis, titled “An exploration of peer-monitoring among student teachers’ to inform reflective practice within the context of action research”, was plagiarized after having been put through plagiarism detection software.The Telegraph reported that analysis had found more than 100 passages in his PhD were similar to another thesis by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a student at Brunel University in London, published six years earlier.In their article, titled “Cambridge’s diversity poster boy in plagiarism row,” the Telegraph cited Dave Harris, emeritus professor at Plymouth Marjon University, who had alerted Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores Universities to his concerns about plagiarism in 2023.He is quoted as saying: “In my opinion, important sections of the work of Professor Jason Arday, both his PhD thesis and some subsequent published articles, solo and jointly written, seem to display indications of serious plagiarism. I can think of no other plausible explanation for what I have read.”Cambridge University initially responded by saying that those accusing Arday of plagiarism were racist. Then, on August 5, they opened an investigation following the far-left Guardian’s exposé on Arday.Arday resigned the same day.The post Woke Ex-Cambridge University Professor Once Hailed as “Diversity’s Poster Boy” Before Massive Plagiarism Scandal Ruined His Career is Found Dead appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.