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Concerning confronting plagiarism

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

from the post, Confronting Plagiarism by Tracy Mitrano :

Let?s stop the cover up of plagiarism. Much of it occurs, I am learning, in freshman and sophomore introductory courses filled with large numbers of students, taught by junior faculty under tremendous pressure not to make waves while under scrutiny for tenure. Let?s face it: it is an embarrassment for a college or university, although I submit that the failure to address it straightforwardly will cause the more enduring harm.

Perhaps one should also worry about faculty plagiarism. When SIU has a president who plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis, it's tough to focus on the freshmen. Which is the bigger embarrassment? Which is easier to detect?

Full post as published by IPBiz on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).