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.
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Inside Higher Ed: In Living Color
A picture says a thousand words, but whose words are they?
That’s the question that resurfaced Tuesday, when a compelling graphic popped up on Internet blogs illustrating “what plagiarism looks like.” The graphic shows dozens of instances where a dissertation written by William Meehan, now president of Jacksonville State University, used verbatim passages from another professor’s research. Meehan has denied any wrongdoing, and he’s backed by Jacksonville State officials who say they’ve reviewed the work.
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