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Poshard announcement expected
Catherine Klene
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: News
The SIU Board of Trustees will meet today at 11:30 a.m. at Southern Illinois Univeristy Carbondale to discuss the results of an appointed review committee's investigation into plagiarism allegations against SIU President Glenn Poshard.
University Communications Director Mike Ruiz said the meeting is expected to be moved to a closed session, as it deals with an individual's employment at the university.
"Any time they discuss personnel issues, they go into closed session," Ruiz said.
The review committee was appointed after the Daily Egyptian, the SIUC student newspaper, printed articles in August accusing Poshard of plagiarizing sections of his 1984 doctoral dissertation. Poshard's 1975 master's thesis is also under review after the Chronicle for Higher Education claimed to have found instances of plagiarism in that document as well.
SIUC Chancellor Fernando Treviño appointed the committee in September, which consists of seven members of the SIUC faculty.
According to Ruiz, the committee will present the BOT with its findings, and they will also be released to the media around that same time.
"The report (the committee) will be giving to the board will be available to the public," Ruiz said.
A press conference will be held after the meeting, where key members related to the issue will be present.
"We plan to have the chair of the committee, the chair of the board and the president after the meeting," Ruiz said.
The plagiarism allegations have sparked debate throughout the campus in recent months, with faculty and students voicing their opinions.
Philosophy professor Robert Ware said regardless of what takes place at the meeting, the review will not be impartial and unbiased.
"I don't want to speculate about what's going to happen," Ware said. "I think that whatever happens will not be the result of due process, and that is what concerns me."
Ware circulated a petition on the faculty listserv stating that the signed faculty members do not believe the university's name can be cleared by a review conducted by university employees who operate under Poshard.
University Communications Director Mike Ruiz said the meeting is expected to be moved to a closed session, as it deals with an individual's employment at the university.
"Any time they discuss personnel issues, they go into closed session," Ruiz said.
The review committee was appointed after the Daily Egyptian, the SIUC student newspaper, printed articles in August accusing Poshard of plagiarizing sections of his 1984 doctoral dissertation. Poshard's 1975 master's thesis is also under review after the Chronicle for Higher Education claimed to have found instances of plagiarism in that document as well.
SIUC Chancellor Fernando Treviño appointed the committee in September, which consists of seven members of the SIUC faculty.
According to Ruiz, the committee will present the BOT with its findings, and they will also be released to the media around that same time.
"The report (the committee) will be giving to the board will be available to the public," Ruiz said.
A press conference will be held after the meeting, where key members related to the issue will be present.
"We plan to have the chair of the committee, the chair of the board and the president after the meeting," Ruiz said.
The plagiarism allegations have sparked debate throughout the campus in recent months, with faculty and students voicing their opinions.
Philosophy professor Robert Ware said regardless of what takes place at the meeting, the review will not be impartial and unbiased.
"I don't want to speculate about what's going to happen," Ware said. "I think that whatever happens will not be the result of due process, and that is what concerns me."
Ware circulated a petition on the faculty listserv stating that the signed faculty members do not believe the university's name can be cleared by a review conducted by university employees who operate under Poshard.
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