House eyeing ‘copycat’ Ivy big

House Republicans are investigating Harvard’s handling of “credible allegations of plagiarism” against its president, Claudine Gay, as well as the university’s efforts to suppress inquiries from The Post about her scholarship.

House Education and Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC) wrote a letter Wednesday to Harvard Corporation senior fellow Penny Pritzker demanding internal documents and communications about the scandal.

Foxx’s letter questions whether the university’s governing body is holding Gay to “the same standards” as students after her work was flagged for dozens of instances of copying other academics — including portions of her 1997 Ph.D. thesis.

The Post first contacted Harvard about the seemingly improper citations nearly two months ago — and was subsequently threatened with a defamation suit if it published a story based on the allegations.

As part of the probe, Foxx has requested any records about the university’s “public response to media inquiries.”

House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), a member of the committee and a Harvard alumna, has also vowed to exercise “every tool at our disposal including subpoena power” to hold Gay accountable.

“Harvard University’s pathetic record of stifling free speech has expanded beyond campus, threatening the New York Post following their investigation and coverage of Claudine Gay’s history of serial plagiarism,” Stefanik told The Post Thursday. “This attempt at bullying and subsequent censorship is entirely unacceptable; the Congressional investigation will use every tool at our disposal including subpoena power to expose the rot of antisemitism plaguing higher education and the hypocrisy of the poisoned ivy towers of Harvard. This is a reckoning.”

The investigation comes after Gay was hauled before Congress Dec. 5 to testify about antisemitism on the Harvard campus.