President of Alabama’s Jacksonville State U. Can’t Shake Plagiarism Charges

by E Wayne Ross on June 3, 2009

The Chronicle News Blog: President of Alabama’s Jacksonville State U. Can’t Shake Plagiarism Charges

Back in April, William A. Meehan, president of Jacksonville State University in Alabama, was accused of plagiarism. According to a lawsuit, Mr. Meehan copied large portions of his dissertation verbatim from a dissertation published three years earlier.