| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:50 PM CDT |
SIU board backs school president after plagiarism claims
By Associated Press
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Southern Illinois University’s trustees affirmed their “full confidence” Monday for the system’s president as claims that he plagiarized parts of his 1984 doctoral dissertation headed to a faculty review panel.
Chancellor Fernando Trevino will appoint a committee of senior faculty members to resolve claims involving Glenn Poshard’s dissertation, the Carbondale school announced.
Trevino said in a statement he plans to announce members of the panel by the week’s end, then hear back from that group by the end of September.
“I am fully confident that this committee will make any necessary recommendations consistent with the highest academic standards of this institution,” Trevino said.
The university’s board of trustees discussed Poshard during a one-hour private meeting Monday, ultimately deciding that since taking over as the system’s president in January 2006, Poshard “has met and exceeded our every expectation and has this board’s full confidence.”
The plagiarism claims surfaced last week when the school’s student newspaper, the Daily Egyptian, reported that the dissertation it said it obtained from an anonymous source found at least 30 sections either not attributed to their original sources or not put in quotation marks to show they weren’t Poshard’s writing.
Poshard has said he might have mistakenly left out some citations in the dissertation -- with the blessings of his doctoral committee -- but he didn’t plagiarize.
Poshard, a former five-term congressman and one-time Democratic candidate for Illinois governor, said he would not resign.
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