… a school superintendent whose self-published book has significant plagiarism, and includes sentences like “The flow of hot unpretentious lava with many fingers,” that’s their business.
… a school superintendent whose self-published book has significant plagiarism, and includes sentences like “The flow of hot unpretentious lava with many fingers,” that’s their business.
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May 19th, 2016 at 9:18AM
The school superintendent in question has a Ph.d in Educational Research and Evaluation from University of Miami. You would think that somewhere along the way he would have learned something about citations. And his field of study was Educational Research. Irony so greasy it sticks to your hands and fails to flow like hot unpretentious lava with many fingers…
May 19th, 2016 at 12:25PM
At my university, the geniuses in the business department hired an Ed.D. who claimed something like 150 publications. Quite the scholar! But as it turned out (I checked), none of these “publications” were academic journal articles; most appeared to be short, inane posts written for an obscure business blog.
This guy also claimed to have written three books, but try as I might I could dig up no trace of these books anywhere. This digging did, however, turn up lots of newspaper articles detailing his stormy (and short) tenure as a public school superintendent.
I have no idea whether the search committee was oblivious to all this stuff, or knew about it and didn’t care. Probably the former. Either way, not only did the committee hire (let’s call him) Dr. Faker, they hired him *with tenure* specifically to chair their department.
Why was I, an English prof, checking up on Dr. Faker? He’s tall and handome, silver-haired and silver-tongued, the type who gets away with a lot on charm alone and to which I have an instinctive antipathy. I sensed he was a phony the moment I met him, which means I also sensed an opportunity to get some dirt on a potential rival. I suppose I should be ashamed to admit this, but as a department chair, which at my institution basically means “competitor for scarce resources,” I enjoyed playing dirty, and Step 1 in playing dirty is to dig up dirt.
Now that I’m retired, all that Richard III stuff is behind me. But I was pleased to learn that Dr. Faker was recently canned as chair and is now teaching Intro to Business classes.
May 19th, 2016 at 1:28PM
Dr. Docterstein, so that guy was hired, in part, because of the short, inane posts on an obscure blog. Hell, I should round up all of my UD posts and become Chancellor….
May 20th, 2016 at 7:41AM
Dr_, thanks. Ed. D teaching business? Around 2002 a librarian (MLS degree, I guess) at our Podunk Tech told me she’d been approached to teach a business course. “I don’t know anything about business”, she said. She was upset because she turned down the offer. I shoulda learned something from that . . . I shoulda.
I recall years ago seeing a title, “lay professor”, in one of those education ads in the NYT. I don’t any more about it, but I’ll guess it may mean a citizen-scholar who’s cultivated unusual expertise, and has some teaching chops, despite a lack of credentials, pubs, etc. Don’t know if it’s a good idea.
I scanned the links to the Enchilada County guy. Yeah, looking a bit windy.
May 20th, 2016 at 9:18AM
“But as it turned out (I checked), none of these “publications” were academic journal articles; most appeared to be short, inane posts written for an obscure business blog.”
I suspect that a significant % of posts of LinkedIn are written for similar purposes…
May 20th, 2016 at 11:57AM
Dr_Doctorstein, is your B-school accredited by AACSB? They are living dangerously if they think they can get away with that, unless this guy is some kind of “executive in residence” with a real business background.
I was on a search committee for another department’s chair some time ago. There was a candidate with an 8-page CV with dozens of publications listed. With the exception of one chapter in a book, they were all op-eds or columns in his local newspaper, most having nothing to do with his nominal expertise.
May 20th, 2016 at 12:18PM
Theprofessor, you might well be right re accreditation, since Dr. Faker’s demotion coincides with the end of the university’s accreditation visits. Whether the site team discovered the fakery on their own or were tipped off about it, I couldn’t say.