More than ordinarily nauseating plagiarism story out of the University of Minnesota, this one involving the director of a research unit stealing verbatim an underling’s dissertation prospectus. The director has scurried away from her position at UM, and UM has duly lied to cover its ass (the whole thing was “an honest mistake”), and everyone’s now hoping that the damage has been contained. But you only need to read the injured party’s narrative to know that this repulsive tale ain’t over.
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“Without Hardeman at the helm of CARHE, it appears the future of the research center is in question.” Sounds as though the place has been a mess pretty much from the start, and UD wouldn’t be surprised if UM hasn’t already shut it down.
And remember, as UD has been saying on this blog for ages, plagiarists plagiarize abundantly, promiscuously:
Brittney Francis, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said Hardeman had taken a graphic that Francis made to illustrate the complexities of structural racism and used it in her own presentations and grant applications, without proper attribution or permission.