Some universities are such class acts that UD has trouble covering them. Take the massively inappropriately named Kean University.
Kean’s on probation because… well… because everything, including having a president who apparently lied on his cv and blamed the lies on his staff. My headline is taken from an article about the board of trustees having enthusiastically backed the president in his time of trial. What a relief for him to know that only Kean students are expected to act with integrity.
Oh, plus the university’s associate vice president for academic affairs is a plagiarist. A top-flight plagiarist, though. When stealing large chunks of text, she’s careful to replace the name of the school in the original text with the name Kean University.
Source document:
“It is vitally important to Parkland that meaningful research focus on the factors which influence student decisions, to ascertain which ones have a positive influence on student retention behavior. In addition, a key to help retaining students is the ability of Parkland to identify ‘at-risk’ students early enough to permit intervention strategies to work.”
VP Academic Affairs document:
“It is vitally important to Kean that meaningful research focus on the factors which influence student decisions, to ascertain which ones have a positive influence on student retention behavior. In addition, a key to helping to retain students is the ability of Kean to identify ‘at-risk’ students early enough to permit intervention strategies to work.”
She even found an obscure school (top-flight plagiarists know to look for obscure sources for their material) to steal from!
Despite all her hard work, the woman has been asked to resign. I’m sure the accreditation people won’t notice this latest awkwardness.