“A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows plagiarism in college is on the rise. The survey, called The Digital Revolution and Higher Education, asked 1,055 college presidents from two- to four-year schools, private and public for their thoughts on how digital technology has impacted college …” (more)
[Kayla Webley, Time, 31 August]
“A faculty panel has substantiated a ‘pattern of plagiarism’ on the part of a tenured University of Utah political scientist, but in a split decision declined to recommend firing him or revoking his tenure. That lifeline was severed, however, by a senior administrator who overruled the panel, known as the Consolidated Hearing Committee, and fired Bahman Bakhtiari …” (more)
[Brian Maffly, University World News, 21 August]
“Plagiarism is making us crazy. No, the mere thought of plagiarism is making us crazy. Collectively, as a professoriate, we’re obsessed with it …” (more)
[Rob Jenkins, Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August]
“Panagiotis G Ipeirotis has taken down the controversial blog post, but the debate is raging on without the original material. Ipeirotis, a computer scientist who teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business, wrote a post on his blog last week called ‘Why I will never pursue cheating again’. In it, he told the story of how he had found that about 20% of a 100-person class had plagiarised – and described the fallout from his accusations …” (more)
[Scott Jaschik, Times Higher Education, 25 July]
“A New York University professor’s blog post is opening a rare public window on the painful classroom consequences of using plagiarism-detection software to aggressively police cheating students. And the post, by Panagiotis Ipeirotis, raises questions about whether the incentives in higher education are set up to reward such vigilance …” (more)
[Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 July]
“Scientists in Germany convinced Silvana Koch-Mehrin to step down from the research committee of the European Parliament. She briefly joined the committee earlier in the week – after losing her PhD due to plagiarism …” (more)
[David Levitz, Deutsche Welle, 26 June]
“Students cheat because they do not understand university standards. Rachel Dearlove argues that it is the role of the institution to simply and clarify its message …” (more)
[Guardian Professional, 17 June]
“I first thought of doing a piece on stealing intellectual property when I started noticing my words being used without credit in others’ articles and blogs months back. I know that when information seeps into one’s mind and becomes knowledge, it is sometimes impossible to trace the origin of an idea or thought. But when I see large chunks of my sentences literally copied and spliced into another’s work then I know it was no accident …” (more)
[Matthew Tuttle, Guardian Higher Education Network, 6 June]
“The bad news keeps coming for the disgraced former German defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a once-rising star in his country’s conservative party. On Wednesday the University of Bayreuth published the full report of its investigation into plagiarism in his 2006 doctoral dissertation in law …” (more)
[Aisha Labi, Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 May]
“Trinity College has warned students who use a website offering to help them with essays that they could be breaking the university’s rules on plagiarism. Cheating continues to be a major problem at third level and affects all Irish universities and institutes of technology …” (more)
[Independent, 11 May]
“The Telegraph has a story based on reported incidences of plagiarism which it describes as an ‘investigation into cheating at universities, with thousands of students caught plagiarising, trying to bribe lecturers and buying essays from the internet’. As noted in a previous post this issue is really about improved detection rather than a greater prevalence of cheats …” (more)
[Registrarism, 9 May]
“German politician and European Parliament Vice-president Silvana Koch-Mehrin is alleged to have used plagiarisms in at least a quarter of her doctoral thesis. Free Democrat Koch-Mehrin took her doctorate in economic history at the University of Heidelberg 11 years ago …” (more)
[Michael Gardner, University World News, 8 May]
“There have been calls for Welsh universities to be more consistent in dealing with students who plagiarise. New figures show between 2008 and 2011, 927 students from six Welsh universities copied work …” (more)
[Polly March, BBC News, 5 May]
“Weeks after Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Germany’s defense minister, was forced to resign in a plagiarism scandal, three German universities say they are investigating similar complaints about the academic work of three figures from the country’s political sphere …” (more)
[Cristopher F Schuetze, New York Times, 24 April]
“A senior African academic has lost his job for the second time after an Australian university that appointed him in January belatedly discovered he had been forced to quit his South African post the previous November following charges of serial plagiarism. The case raises questions about the secrecy surrounding disgraced academics who are found guilty of academic misconduct and why other universities planning to hire them are not informed …” (more)
[Geoff Maslen, University World News, 24 April]
“With an intensive investigation almost concluded, Bavaria’s University of Bayreuth now claims that ex-minister of defence Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg (pictured) must have copied parts of his doctoral thesis. But zu Guttenberg continues to deny wilful deceit …” (more)
[Michael Gardner, University World News, 17 April]
“RMIT has revoked the doctorate of a former deputy dean in an embarrassing plagiarism scandal that raises questions over how the 2001 PhD was awarded in the first place. Julian Bondy had been deputy dean at the school of global studies, social science and planning when plagiarism allegations were raised, prompting him to resign last November …” (more)
[Andrew Trounson, The Australian, 13 April]
“One of the country’s biggest universities has asked a master’s student to step down from a company offering students help with college assignments …” (more)
[Louise Hogan, Independent, 11 April]
“Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) has initiated an external inquiry into how it responded to and dealt with ‘complaints/ suspicions’ of plagiarism highlighted by one lecturer last year. A University College Dublin (UCD) academic and a barrister and mediator in private practice have been invited by GMIT’s acting president to conduct an independent investigation …” (more)
[Lorna Siggins, Irish Times, 7 April]
“Yes, this is another post on plagiarism, which is a topic academics will continue discussing until it disappears (and how likely is that to happen?). ProfHacker has had posts before on preventing plagiarism and responding to plagiarism, and I am sure we will have more posts following this one …” (more)
[HT: Sharon Flynn]
[Nels P Highberg, Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 March]
