The Chronicle: Panel Finds ‘Errors,’ Not Plagiarism, in Dissertation by Southern Illinois U. President
A faculty committee has issued its verdict on whether Glenn Poshard, president of Southern Illinois University, plagiarized numerous portions of his dissertation, which he completed at the university in 1984. In short, he’s off the hook.
That’s not to say he didn’t plagiarize. The report, a copy of which was given to The Chronicle, finds “many instances” in Mr. Poshard’s dissertation in which “the words of others are present in a continuous flow with student Poshard’s own words, so that readers cannot distinguish between those sources.”
The Intellectual Responsibility of Educators
The Chronicle: ON THE CONTRARY
The Intellectual Responsibility of Educators
By DAVID HOROWITZ
In its new report, “Freedom in the Classroom,” the American Association of University Professors responds to critics of the university like myself who have questioned what we see as a growing tendency among faculty members in the liberal arts to “indoctrinate” rather than educate their students. In fact, the association evades the argument, repeats boilerplate that nobody outside the yahoo culture would disagree with, and reverses an almost 100-year-old AAUP position on academic freedom.
My views on indoctrination can be found in my recently published book, Indoctrination U: The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom (Encounter Books, 2007). With my colleagues, Jacob Laksin and Tom Ryan, I have posted over 100,000 words on the Internet analyzing the syllabi of 200 courses that indoctrinate students and violate academic-freedom regulations. Stephen H. Balch, president of the National Association of Scholars, has also written exclusively on indoctrination.
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