The sport of competitive plagiarizing is upon us, in which people accused of plagiarism use the same software their accusers used, in order to demonstrate that everybody plagiarizes. In fact, some people plagiarize more than the accused do, so why are the accused being singled out?
How many of these objects of plagiarism claims, though, can lay claim to the title of provost? Your chief academic officer may herself be a plagiarist?
This must be Chicago State University, corrupt dropout factory extraordinaire. (Background here.)
So the provost is suing the school that passed and is now investigating her degree (privacy issues), which for CSU means another embarrassing high-profile lawsuit to go with the free speech one FIRE just filed against the school, and the just-concluded one in which a judge made CSU pay a whopping three million dollars to a campus whistle blower against whom the institution retaliated.
I’m sure the taxpayers of Illinois, who pay for this school (I don’t think it has any students anymore… maybe a few…?), take comfort in the fact that the money they’re paying for the provost’s salary is going to someone who apparently plagiarized less than some of her classmates.
July 22nd, 2014 at 3:17PM
CSU might have its problems, but they do have a very good photographer taking the portraits of its senior staff, including the police chief.
July 22nd, 2014 at 3:40PM
Polish Peter: Yes! They certainly know where to put their resources.
July 22nd, 2014 at 4:00PM
Whew! Looks like a place run by MAD, mutually assured destruction. The more you’re an insider, the more you wish you were an outsider. The guaranteed blackmail-ability of colleagues and subordinates is standard-issue patronage politics here where I live.
Peter and UD are absolutely right. That’s superbly done photography, layout, and I-love-me captioning.
July 22nd, 2014 at 5:14PM
Indeed, Jack. Narcissistic self-celebration is a strong correlate of organizational dysfunction.
July 22nd, 2014 at 6:01PM
Polish Peter, you’re right. Is there anyone who doesn’t notice CSU’s chief of campus police and the director of facilities and physical plant are the same man?
July 22nd, 2014 at 7:46PM
And he’s the former police commissioner of Cambridge, Mass.!
July 23rd, 2014 at 6:13AM
Polish Peter, plus he’s collecting one, maybe two, pensions, and now he’s a top cop who’s been given operations’ responsibility over a department where the initial investigating authority in the event of misconduct may be . . . himself. (I don’t know if CSU’s police are sworn, armed LEOs with powers of arrest, investigation, etc.)
But, UD relentlessly points out that the folks who’re “working” higher ed have a pretty low coefficient of shame.