Southern Illinois University’s president has created a panel to review allegations that the Carbondale campus’s strategic plan, “Southern at 150,” was partly plagiarized from “Vision 2020,” a previous strategic plan at Texas A&M University at College Station.

The similarities were first reported this morning by The Chronicle. Some of the preliminary documents used in the Southern Illinois plan appear to have been copied verbatim from the Texas A&M plan. Both plans highlight the same “primary gaps” and the exact same “critical concerns.” Some flow charts are the same, and even the final reports, which do differ, have the same structure and many of the same section headings.

Walter V. Wendler, Carbondale’s chancellor, served as coordinator of Vision 2020 when he worked at Texas A&M.

Mr. Wendler has declined to comment on the similarities. Glenn Poshard, the university’s president, told The Chronicle on Thursday that he had passed the allegations on to the university’s legal counsel and was waiting for the results of that review.

On Friday he created a committee “to assure a deliberative, objective, and thorough review of these reported allegations,” according to the Associated Press. The committee includes Mike Lawrence, director of the university’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute; William Muhlach, chairman of the Carbondale campus’s zoology department; and Wenona Whitfield, associate dean of the law school.