俄亥俄大学对论文剽窃事件的处理


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送交者: TexasRanger 于 2006-08-18, 09:21:17:


机械工程系有多达几十名已拿到硕士学位的学生论文要重写,有些人已毕业很多年了。原因是在导论中引用别人的论文未加特别说明。机械工程系系主任因此下台.

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/15083452.htm

Most students accused of plagiarism will rewrite theses
Associated Press
ATHENS, Ohio - Most of the 37 Ohio University engineering graduates accused of plagiarizing parts of their master's degree research projects have agreed to rewrite their reports, the school said Thursday.

Twenty of the graduates who received letters last month from the school informing them that copied sections of their theses had been discovered opted to revise the questioned portions rather than appeal.

By agreeing to rewrite their theses, the graduates have acknowledged their projects contained "problems," spokesman Jack Jeffery said. Those terms were included in a letter sent to the students.

Two former students will challenge the allegation before a hearing board.

Graduates were also given the option of giving up their degrees, which no one has done.

Thirteen graduates did not reply by July 14 - the deadline university lawyer John Burns set in his June 30 letter. Most of those live abroad and will be given until the end of July to answer, Jeffery said.

Another two remain uncertain about how they will respond, he said.

Jeffery said the board expects to review and decide on all 37 cases by the end of the fall quarter in November. Rewritten theses should also be completed by November, he said.

The university's investigation began in 2004 after Tom Matrka, then a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, told school officials about suspected plagiarism he found while reviewing master's theses in a university library.

A committee appointed in March by Provost Kathy Krendl reported that rampant and flagrant plagiarism occurred in the program for more than 20 years. The committee recommended in May that department Chairman Jay Gunasekera and one other professor be fired.

Gunasekera has since stepped down as chairman. He remains a professor but has been stripped of his role as a graduate student adviser. He has hired a lawyer to fight allegations that he allowed the cheating to happen.

John Marshall, Gunasekera's lawyer, has maintained his client was not at fault. What the university is calling plagiarism was students copying information leading up to their research, he said last month.

"None of the so-called plagiarism had anything to do with the originality of the research," Marshall said.

Jeffery said much the same Thursday. The university has only found plagiarized material in introductory chapters to the 37 theses, not in research results, he said.

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