Fast 40 instances of Dean Jerlando Jackson’s reported plagiarism are listed in the problem.
In a subsequent complaint, a Michigan State University dean is accused of plagiarism throughout his almost 30-year career, but neither he nor the college have responded.
The standard problem, initially reported by the Washington Free Beacon, cites nearly 40 cases of alleged theft by Jerlando Jackson, the professor of MS U’s College of Education.
When asked about the problem, Michigan State spokeswoman Emily Gerkin Guerrant declined to comment in a new message to The College Fix.
The school does not immediately comment on theft circumstances, but when concerns are raised, they are reviewed by the MSU Research Integrity Office from a approach point, according to Guerrant.
Guerrant responded similarly when The Fix reached out to people of the Research Integrity Office to inquire about the reputation of the problem and the course of action if a university or staff part was found guilty of theft.
Jackson also declined to respond to a number of emails sent over the past few weeks asking for his reaction to the allegations.
The Jackson problem includes illustrations from his Ph.D. D. essay and eight other publications.
In one instance, Free Beacon writer Aaron Sibarium posted a side-by-side assessment of a document Jackson wrote in 2002 and another by Lorraine McDonnell, a University of California at Santa Barbara social scientist, and the later Professor Richard Elmore of Harvard University, that show almost record paragraphs.
The extract from Jackson’s report read,” Despite the number of unanswered questions and the size of the potential research mission, the focus on retaining officials of colour at PWIs]predominantly white organizations ] is a productive one”.
In comparison, McDonnell’s and Elmore’s paper read,” Despite the number of unanswered questions and the size of the future research agenda, we feel that the focus on policy instruments is a productive approach”.
In one 2002 paper, he lifts pages of material from Lorraine McDonnell, a political scientist at UCSB, and Richard Elmore, a professor at Harvard’s Grad School of Education, without attribution, keeping the order of their sentences while swapping out synonyms and details. pic. twitter.com/k0i4wMlhkM
— Aaron Sibarium ( @aaronsibarium ) October 8, 2024
McDonnell did not respond to two email requests for comment from The College Fix, asking for her response to the allegation that her work had been plagiarized. Elmore died in 2021.
In March, Jackson also was linked to another plagiarism complaint. The allegations involved two papers that he co-authored with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chief diversity officer, LaVar Charleston, according to the Free Beacon.
Plagiarism has become a frequent issue in esteemed institutions recently.
A Yale University professor was charged with plagiarizing a 30-year-old paper earlier this year, and Columbia University President Minouche Shafik was charged with plagiarism.
Other notable figures include former Harvard University president Claudine Gay, a leader of the UCLA medical school’s Department of Equity and Inclusion, University of Washington author Robin DiAngelo, a renowned professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, and others.
However, Jackson has direct control over both academic programs and student discipline, according to the Free Beacon‘s Sibarium, unlike many other university leaders who have been accused of plagiarism.
” And he is not just an administrator but a scholar—with 100s of papers under his belt and grants from the]National Science Foundation ] —albeit one who studies DEI programs for a living”, Sibarium wrote.
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At Michigan State, students are told that even “accidental” plagiarism is wrong and could be subject to discipline.
Students are held to the same standards regardless of whether or not they knew they were plagiarizing, whether or not they were plagiarizing themselves or another person, according to the university Ombudsperson’s website.
Additionally, the university works to stop plagiarism among faculty and staff. According to its website, it uses a tool called iThenticate to search “drafts of research articles and grant proposals for missed citations and other mistakes that could be characterized as plagiarism before submission or publication.”
Christian Miller, a former director of The Honesty Project at Wake Forest University, was contacted about plagiarism in academia when he claimed technology had a significant role in identifying the issue.
According to Miller, “pluralization is now much easier to detect,” which is one of the reasons there have been so many plagiarism allegations recently. It’s unclear to me whether academic plagiarism has increased in recent years, but there has definitely been some AI-based cheating, especially among students.
Miller, a philosophy professor, said he was not familiar with the complaint against Michigan State’s dean.
But generally, he said universities can “encourage honest scholarly work” by adopting clear policies and consistently-enforced disciplinary measures for cases of plagiarism.
” Harvard, it turns out, has an excellent policy … With clear standards, professors should know that even unintentional uses of material by other scholars without acknowledgement, will still count as plagiarism”, he told The Fix.
” Finally, I would emphasize the establishment of a culture of honesty, starting with the President and the administration acting as exemplars of honesty, and making sure it permeates the entire campus,” Miller said.
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