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Friday, April 22, 2005

STROM CLEARED

An update on the faculty plagiarism charge at North Dakota State University from Scott Jaschik, at Inside Higher Ed:


' A faculty panel at North Dakota State University has cleared Claire Strom, an assistant professor of history there, of charges of plagiarism and “bogus citations” in her 2003 book, Profiting From the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West.

The panel found that while there were some minor mistakes in documentation, they were neither intentional, significant or unusual. The panel rejected the conclusions of a historian from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, whom the committee asked for an independent review and who said that the complaint had merit. But the committee said that it based its decision on university regulations, which explicitly exclude “honest error,” unlike the standards the outside reviewer had used.
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