A state Board of Education member resigned last week amid a Purdue University investigation into whether she plagiarized parts of her doctoral dissertation… [P]ortions of the doctoral dissertation turned in by [Gwendolyn Griffith] Adell to Purdue in 2004 are nearly identical to information in a 1999 dissertation submitted by a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
Now if they can remove her influence from the charter school she’s got hold of…
July 27th, 2011 at 3:18PM
African American female administrators: Leadership in context; Gwendolyn G Adell; 2004 Purdue University
Margaret, is it me or, whenever you mention such cases, it’s always in “soft” social, political or economical sciences?
July 27th, 2011 at 3:29PM
It’s not you, DM. I think it’s far harder to plagiarize your way through a hard science dissertation.