Cambridge DEI scholar claims he was guest professor at Ohio State. University says he wasn’t.

Jason Arday, once celebrated as Cambridge’s youngest black professor, resigned WednesdayA once celebrated DEI scholar at the University of Cambridge resigned Wednesday after reportedly lying about holding a guest professorship at Ohio State University. The professor’s supposed affiliation with Ohio State University, uncovered by National Review’s Abigail Anthony this week, is another example:Arday says on his official faculty website that he is a visiting professor at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion — but Ohio State’s DEI office shuttered in 2025, and the school said he was never an employee. “We have no record of an employee by that name,” Ohio State University spokesman Benjamin Johnson told National Review on Tuesday. Ohio State previously announced that its Office of Diversity and Inclusion would close, effective February 28, 2025. Arday specifically claimed that bananas and bullets were mailed to his university office, and that corrosive substances — as well as a mutilated pig head — were sent to his home.