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Poshard accused of plagiarizing sections of doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 8/30/07 Section: News
An investigation published Thursday accuses Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard of plagiarizing portions of his doctoral dissertation.
The investigation, carried out and published by the Daily Egyptian, the Southern Illinois University Carbondale student newspaper, revealed allegations that Poshard's doctoral dissertation included sections taken from other academic works without proper citation.
The report states that 14 accusations within the 110-page document "contain verbatim text without citation." An additional 16 instances allegedly "contain verbatim text with a citation but without quotation marks."
The dissertation, written in 1984, discussed education for gifted children in southern Illinois. That same year, Poshard was appointed to the Illinois State Senate. He was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and unsuccessfuly ran for governor in 1998. He was selected in November 2005 to become the president of the SIU system.
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The investigation, carried out and published by the Daily Egyptian, the Southern Illinois University Carbondale student newspaper, revealed allegations that Poshard's doctoral dissertation included sections taken from other academic works without proper citation.
The report states that 14 accusations within the 110-page document "contain verbatim text without citation." An additional 16 instances allegedly "contain verbatim text with a citation but without quotation marks."
The dissertation, written in 1984, discussed education for gifted children in southern Illinois. That same year, Poshard was appointed to the Illinois State Senate. He was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and unsuccessfuly ran for governor in 1998. He was selected in November 2005 to become the president of the SIU system.
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Sam Loring
posted 8/30/07 @ 12:47 PM CST
I am a soon to be graduate of SIUE and hope that these accusations are all false because the president partially represents the type education that SIU students receive. (Continued…)
Alan Anthenat
posted 8/30/07 @ 1:23 PM CST
OK? so what? Was it wrong, sure. BUT WHO CARES? obviously, someone who strongly dislikes Poshard, has spent weeks and probably months poring over books to find a mistake in his past. (Continued…)
Amanda Kuhlman
posted 8/30/07 @ 3:07 PM CST
I am so disheartened to hear this. As an authority figure and education advocate, he should lead by example. How dare someone tell preach the evils of what he himself is doing. (Continued…)
Ankur
posted 8/30/07 @ 4:59 PM CST
Did someone actually spend student dollars to look up a 23 year old document and analyze it to find 16 verbatim citations without quotation marks?
By the way, if I look hard enough, i bet i can find this phrase, and the one above, pushlished in a book somewhere. (Continued…)
Clay
posted 8/31/07 @ 1:27 AM CST
The Daily Egyptian is about as reliable a source of information as a publication produced by grade schoolers. I wouldn't put much credibility into their investigation, and wouldn't be surprised if there isn't charges of libel in the near future. (Continued…)
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