And what does this absurd circumstance say about the value of strategic planning… EWR
The Chronicle: Plagiarism Hunters at Southern Illinois U. Say Campus’s Strategic Plan Was Lifted
A plagiarism hunt at Southern Illinois University may have snagged its biggest catch yet — a university’s entire strategic plan.
In 2001, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale began a long-range-planning process called Southern at 150, designed to make the university into a top-75 public university by 2019, its 150th anniversary. Many of the planning documents appear to be nearly identical to a strategic plan that Texas A&M University at College Station created in the late 1990s, called Vision 2020.
AP: SIU panel tapped to review new allegations of plagiarism
Southern Illinois University’s president tapped a panel Friday to review new allegations of plagiarism involving the system’s Carbondale campus, scrutinizing similarities between the school’s strategic plan and that of a Texas school where the chancellor once worked.
Glenn Poshard’s naming of the three-person panel came the same day The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that SIU’s long-range planning blueprint bears similarities to Texas A&M’s “Vision 2020.”
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