October 12, 2007

Panel Finds 'Inadvertent Plagiarism' in Southern Illinois U. President's Dissertation

By Thomas Bartlett

A faculty committee has issued its verdict on whether Glenn Poshard, president of Southern Illinois University, plagiarized numerous portions of his dissertation, which he completed at the university in 1984. In short, he's off the hook.

That's not to say he didn't plagiarize. The report, a copy of which was given to The Chronicle, finds "many instances" in Mr. Poshard's dissertation in which "the words of others are present in a continuous flow with student Poshard's own

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