The Chronicle: Malone U. President Steps Down Amid Plagiarism Accusations
The president of Malone University, a small liberal-arts institution in Canton, Ohio, announced his resignation on Monday after concerns surfaced that he had used unattributed materials in some of his speeches.
The president, Gary W. Streit, is retiring immediately. Wilbert J. Friesen, the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been appointed to serve as interim president.
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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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AP: Ala. college president accused of plagiarism
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The president of Jacksonville State University, whose use of a ghostwriter for newspaper columns caused a stir two years ago, now has been accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Alabama.
The claim surfaced in a lawsuit filed against William Meehan which alleges that he submitted a dissertation that was copied in part from another professor’s work around the time Meehan became JSU president in 1999.
An Associated Press review found similarities between the two papers, and an expert hired by the JSU professor suing Meehan over another issue concluded his dissertation was plagiarism.
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The New York Times: Jury Says Professor Was Wrongly Fired
DENVER — A jury found on Thursday that the University of Colorado had wrongfully dismissed a professor who drew national attention for an essay in which he called some victims of the Sept. 11 attacks “little Eichmanns.”
Ward Churchill, who was a tenured professor at the University of Colorado, left, walked with his lead attorney David Lane out of the courtroom after a jury ruled that he was wrongly fired by school administrators, on Thursday.
But the jury, which deliberated for a day and a half, awarded only $1 in damages to the former professor, Ward L. Churchill, a tenured faculty member at the university’s campus in Boulder since 1991 who was chairman of the ethnic studies department.
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The Chronicle: Amid Talk of High Ideals, Arguments Close in Ward Churchill’s Lawsuit
The trial in Ward Churchill’s wrongful-dismissal lawsuit against the University of Colorado drew to a close on Wednesday with the embattled professor’s lawyer telling jurors that nothing less than the fate of the Constitution rested in their hands.
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The Denver Post: Churchill jury returns today
A Denver jury will continue deliberating the fate of Ward Churchill’s civil case against the University of Colorado today after meeting for a half-day Wednesday without reaching a verdict.
The four women and two men listened to the case for four weeks and heard 45 witnesses testify in the courtroom of Denver Chief District Judge Larry J. Naves. Two male alternates were sent home after closing arguments Tuesday.
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Harvard Crimson: HMS Professor Simon Resigns
A Harvard Medical School professor accused of plagiarizing a review of rheumatoid arthritis treatments turned in his resignation last week, over a year after the alleged infraction.
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