• Wednesday, February 15, 2012
  • Print

Dueling Accusations of Plagiarism Prompt Question: Who's the Victim?

A graduate student at Capella University, an online for-profit institution, says her professor stole her work. The professor says it’s the other way around. The Pioneer Press, a Minnesota newspaper, has a lengthy article about the dispute, which is headed to court. This isn’t the first time that a student has accused a professor of plagiarism, as a special report in The Chronicle described in 2004. —Thomas Bartlett