What's new in the plagiarism world?
The online Star Tribune reported today that the president of South Central College was cleared of plagiarism charges upon completion of a thorough investigation. According to the the article, Annette Parker was accused of plagiarizing on her doctoral dissertation when she attended Western Kentucky University. The article did not specify the exact date when Mr. Parker earned her P.H.D and not details were given on the nature of the plagiarism allegations. It did, however, share the link to the blog where the accusation was posted. Apparently, the blogspot blog revealed sections from her dissertation that the publisher believed was not original. It seems that the accusations were voiced by critics of her administration. Most likely these critics are existing or former faculty or maybe even members of the senate. In a publicly released letter, the provost of Western Kentucky announced that the results of a special committee suggest that Ms. Parker did not plagiarize and that the case is officially closed. In an article published by Albawaba.com, the King of Rai music was found guilty of plagiarism for failure to recognize Cheb Rabeh as the original composer of DIDI. DiDI is considered on of Khaled's Hit songs and it brought him International fame back in the early 90's. It's amazing that it took over 15 years for this to be made public. Why so long? I guess we would never know. What we do know, however, is that Mr. Khaled has to dish out 200,000.00 golden euros as penalty for claiming DIDI as his for so long. I say, add some interest to that and take inflation into accounts. April 21, 2015 We start today's news with a story from Arkansas. In an article published by swtimes.com, John Lyon writes that the Superintendent of Little Rock school district resigned today amid allegations of plagiarism. Mr. Dexter Suggs stepped down from his position after it was revealed that multiple sections of his doctoral dissertation has instances of plagiarism. Some of it was verbatim, while in other parts it consisted of modified text with no attribution or proper citation giving credit to the original author. It is important to note that Mr. Dexter Suggs has officially denied the plagiarism accusations publicly.
In other news, the irishtimes.com reports that Ireland's General Secretary Mr. Mike Gennings has sounded the alarm about the dangers of MOOCS, or massive open source online courses in regards to academic integrity. In his speech he argued that academic institutions must invest more resources into their faculty and staff and less on technology when dealing with digital cheating. He points out that there is a significant increase in the number of cases where students go online seeking services that do their school work for them in exchange for a fee. In his argument, he pointed out that he was not against technology or e-learning, but at the same time, he advocated for more awareness about the risk of blind adoption of such a complex technology without any guarantees of a pedagogically sound outcome.
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