University suspends academic whose investigation exposed disgraced Cambridge Professor Jason Arday– www.thecollegefix.com

The scholar credited with first exposing fabulist academic Jason Arday’s plagiarism and biographical embellishments has been suspended by his university in the wake of Arday’s apparent suicide.

“I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me,” Nathan Cofnas posted on X on Thursday. “The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.”

Arday made history as the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge. While questions and concerns were raised both internally and more recently in media reports regarding alleged sloppy research and plagiarism, his fall from grace is primarily linked to Cofnas’ July 21 Substack piece “DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge.”

Cofnas details the plagiarism concerns over his dissertation as well as casts doubt on Arday’s far-fetched biographical claims.

Arday had described himself as non-verbal until age 11 and said he could not read or write until age 18. He also said he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, claims to have raised millions of dollars for charities in recent decades, and alleged he was sent bananas, bullets, and a pig’s head in the mail.