Saturday, December 12, 2009
Another surge in the war on plagiarism
In my American Presidency class I have had to fail four students out of twenty for multiple cases of plagiarism so far. In my own department, International and Comparative Politics, I have not found any cases of plagiarism so far this semester. It appears that the ICP department has become a plagiarism free zone, but the rest of the university lags seriously behind.
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Some student is either suing or threatening to sue our college over a plagiarism accusation. Then the new president approached the Faculty Council and asked them to suspend the policy, which was being rewritten at the time. Money over integrity!
Walt I used to be able to fail students from a class for one case of plagiarism. Then the administration instituted a school wide policy requiring two confirmed cases to fail a student from a class. We have as yet never expelled a student from the university for plagiarism. Until that happens it will continue to be a problem.
I remember when I taught at USC in the early '90s and caught somebody the administration practically begged me to fail the guy for the course. Our current president seems like a good guy too, so there's been some major culture shift in the past 15 years that's making the administrators look at these things differently.
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