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A tenured professor, who plagiarized an entire chapter of her work, got busted in a book review. The chapter was originally written by a graduate student and presented at a conference 6 years ago. Then untenured professor got hold of the chapter, reworded it, and published it under her name (first in a journal and again) in her newly published book. Her work landed on the desk of a critical senior reviewer, who without knowing the context of plagiarism, tore the book into pieces. He pointed out that the chapter didn't fit into the book (of course, that's because she didn't write it) and her overall language was disingenuous and pointed out all the falsehood he noticed. So glad that she is finally exposed as an intellectual fraud, although she will keep her tenure for now.
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2011, 10:54:28 AM » |
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I suppose it's a fair comeuppance, but no link to the details, OP?
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 10:58:57 AM » |
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A tenured professor, who plagiarized an entire chapter of her work, got busted in a book review. The chapter was originally written by a graduate student and presented at a conference 6 years ago. Then untenured professor got hold of the chapter, reworded it, and published it under her name (first in a journal and again) in her newly published book. Her work landed on the desk of a critical senior reviewer, who without knowing the context of plagiarism, tore the book into pieces. He pointed out that the chapter didn't fit into the book (of course, that's because she didn't write it) and her overall language was disingenuous and pointed out all the falsehood he noticed. So glad that she is finally exposed as an intellectual fraud, although she will keep her tenure for now.
Hold your horses. Explain this juicy story to me again. Tenured professor plagiarizes from grad student. Later, untenured professor steals from tenure professor, without knowing that tenured professor stole from grad student. Still later, untenured professor gets ripped to shreds by reviewer who, without knowing the work was plagiarized (no, double plagiarized!), makes untenured professor look foolish. So this is a case of double-plagiarism with reviewers not knowing they are exposing said plagiarism? There's also a lesson here about plagiarizing from crappy work. Wait, where is the graduate student in all this... aggh! |
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 11:05:48 AM » |
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A tenured professor, who plagiarized an entire chapter of her work, got busted in a book review. The chapter was originally written by a graduate student and presented at a conference 6 years ago. Then untenured professor got hold of the chapter, reworded it, and published it under her name (first in a journal and again) in her newly published book. Her work landed on the desk of a critical senior reviewer, who without knowing the context of plagiarism, tore the book into pieces. He pointed out that the chapter didn't fit into the book (of course, that's because she didn't write it) and her overall language was disingenuous and pointed out all the falsehood he noticed. So glad that she is finally exposed as an intellectual fraud, although she will keep her tenure for now.
This person will have her tenure terminated and be fired, or her institution has no integrity whatsoever. Untenured, I think the lack of clarity comes from the fact that "Then-untenured" is a compound adjective and should therefore have a hyphen. In other words, it refers to the same professor, who is the "now-(temporariliy)-tenured" professor. |
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2011, 11:12:28 AM » |
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Good.
I was a RA for a (then untenured) starting professor. She asked me and her other RAs to write up short reports for her next book...then she rewrote these in her own language and published them. She also published some ideas from a friend's term paper in her book and ran my friend out of academe. Total scum. We tried to do something about it at the time, but no-one at our University took us seriously. She's now a tenured prof at a top University, although different from the one she started at.
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« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2011, 11:24:48 AM » |
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Mmmmm...SUNY Graduate Center?
(Everyone tells me stuff because they know I collect bad behavior.)
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« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2011, 12:04:02 PM » |
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Mmmmm...SUNY Graduate Center?
(Everyone tells me stuff because they know I collect bad behavior.)
Did you mean CUNY Graduate Center? |
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« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2011, 12:12:24 PM » |
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Mmmmm...SUNY Graduate Center?
(Everyone tells me stuff because they know I collect bad behavior.)
Did you mean CUNY Graduate Center? Why, yes...my bad. |
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« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2011, 12:15:18 PM » |
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Yeah, I meant the "then-untenured." So it's the same person. I think she was tenured sometimes around 2008-9 and her book came out last year. I read the book review this morning and laughed out loud. The reviewer didn't call out on her plagiarism (he probably didn't know), but pointed out that the problem chapter didn't belong to the book and that the entire book was filled with errors and non-words (she made up a few words). The chapter was originally written by a graduate student as a seminar paper--obviously with no intention to publish--and circulated in graduate conferences and this prof picked it up there. I doubt she will lose her tenure, since nobody will make a move to report her. Plus, she is married to another tenured faculty and has some strong academic allies. I am sure they know this is not her work, but just let her go. I am just glad that she could not fool an expert. The reviewer sounded angry at this work. A tenured professor, who plagiarized an entire chapter of her work, got busted in a book review. The chapter was originally written by a graduate student and presented at a conference 6 years ago. Then untenured professor got hold of the chapter, reworded it, and published it under her name (first in a journal and again) in her newly published book. Her work landed on the desk of a critical senior reviewer, who without knowing the context of plagiarism, tore the book into pieces. He pointed out that the chapter didn't fit into the book (of course, that's because she didn't write it) and her overall language was disingenuous and pointed out all the falsehood he noticed. So glad that she is finally exposed as an intellectual fraud, although she will keep her tenure for now.
This person will have her tenure terminated and be fired, or her institution has no integrity whatsoever. Untenured, I think the lack of clarity comes from the fact that "Then-untenured" is a compound adjective and should therefore have a hyphen. In other words, it refers to the same professor, who is the "now-(temporariliy)-tenured" professor. |
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2011, 12:18:12 PM » |
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There is a field, Crumpet, where professors pretty regularly draw heavily and directly from the writeups their RAs provide to produce their final manuscripts. The RAs then get a pat on the back in the acknowledgements.
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2011, 12:20:41 PM » |
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Not this case, both belong to different schools and probably never talked to each other. There is a field, Crumpet, where professors pretty regularly draw heavily and directly from the writeups their RAs provide to produce their final manuscripts. The RAs then get a pat on the back in the acknowledgements.
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« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2011, 12:47:56 PM » |
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A tenured professor, who plagiarized an entire chapter of her work, got busted in a book review. The chapter was originally written by a graduate student and presented at a conference 6 years ago. Then untenured professor got hold of the chapter, reworded it, and published it under her name (first in a journal and again) in her newly published book. Her work landed on the desk of a critical senior reviewer, who without knowing the context of plagiarism, tore the book into pieces. He pointed out that the chapter didn't fit into the book (of course, that's because she didn't write it) and her overall language was disingenuous and pointed out all the falsehood he noticed. So glad that she is finally exposed as an intellectual fraud, although she will keep her tenure for now.
This person will have her tenure terminated and be fired, or her institution has no integrity whatsoever. Untenured, I think the lack of clarity comes from the fact that "Then-untenured" is a compound adjective and should therefore have a hyphen. In other words, it refers to the same professor, who is the "now-(temporariliy)-tenured" professor. Thanks for the clarification. My version was more salacious, but this is still shocking nonetheless. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2011, 03:35:04 PM » |
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Yeah, I meant the "then-untenured." So it's the same person. I think she was tenured sometimes around 2008-9 and her book came out last year. I read the book review this morning and laughed out loud. The reviewer didn't call out on her plagiarism (he probably didn't know), but pointed out that the problem chapter didn't belong to the book and that the entire book was filled with errors and non-words (she made up a few words). The chapter was originally written by a graduate student as a seminar paper--obviously with no intention to publish--and circulated in graduate conferences and this prof picked it up there. I doubt she will lose her tenure, since nobody will make a move to report her. Plus, she is married to another tenured faculty and has some strong academic allies. I am sure they know this is not her work, but just let her go.
I am just glad that she could not fool an expert. The reviewer sounded angry at this work.
Wait, so all she got was criticized for a bad chapter? The plagiarism itself has not been publicly revealed? |
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« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2011, 03:41:04 PM » |
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Weather123, are you the graduate student?
If not, if you know it was plagiarized, why aren't you reporting it? Do you have any proof it was plagiarized?
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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2011, 04:04:50 PM » |
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I participated in the conference and read the paper in 2004-5. The organizer of the conference collected all the papers and turned them into a book-sized manuscript and distributed to everyone in the room. At least, 20-50 people have the copies. When I found out about it after 2007 or so, I alerted a few colleagues and reported it to a senior faculty in the field. He told me to keep it to myself. The prof was married to his colleague (at different universities) and I could easily get into trouble if these people come after me. I am not in TT or tenured and my field is not that big.
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