Texas Tech student regent Greenfield resigns over plagiarism matter

Posted on April 16, 2008 in Diabetes erectile dysfunction

The AP reported: Texas Tech University's first student regent resigned Oct. 17 after being accused of plagiarizing several paragraphs in a column he wrote for the student newspaper [the Texas Tech Toreador]. Chad Greenfield, a graduate student from Monahans, Texas, said he regretted having to resign but felt it was best for the university. The AP report also contained the words "malicious plagiarism": Greenfield said it was a mistake. He said he was sick when he submitted the column and didn't mean to include text of the column without reference. "It frustrates me that it was portrayed as, I guess, malicious plagiarism," Greenfield said. As one observation, in patent law, "intent" is not an element of patent infringement. One is guilty of infringement if one practices the elements of the claim whether or not one knows about the patent. WILLFUL infringement can lead to ENHANCED damages. In contrast, in copyright law, independent creation is a defense, although a "forgotten" access to the copied work does not amount to independent creation. In the plagiarism business, "forgetting to cite" the primary work has produced a variety of sanctions. One notes that students who fail to cite (at Texas Tech, Ohio University, Princeton, Georgetown) made out a lot worse than professors who fail to cite. As an additional observation, while copying (without crediting) the work of another is a bad thing, publishing false things is far, far worse . Thus, the publication in the journal Science on July 28 of false things about continuation patent applications is, in my opinion, a lot worse than what Greenfield did at Texas Tech, but it has received a whole lot less publicity. For an earlier discussion of the Texas Tech matter (including text by Justin Dove), look here. Of the falsities in the Science article, see 88 JPTOS 743 (Sept. 2006).

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MBA students: the biggest cheaters?

Posted on April 15, 2008 in Diabetes erectile dysfunction

Further to academic cheating, a study by the Academy of Management Learning and Education of 5,300 students in the U.S. and Canada placed MBA students at the top of the cheater list: 56% of M.B.A. candidates say they cheated in the past year. For the study, cheating was defined as plagiarizing, copying other students' work and bringing prohibited materials into exams. However, other disciplines were close behind: With 54% of graduate engineering students, 50% of students in the physical sciences, 49% of medical and other health-care students, 45% of law students, 43% of graduate students in the arts and 39% of graduate students in the social sciences and humanities readily admitting to cheating, something must be done to correct course. Also: Faculty, the authors say, should "engage students in an ongoing dialogue about academic integrity that begins with recruiting, continues in orientation sessions and initiation ceremonies, and continues throughout the program." It may also include initiating an honor code, preferably one that emphasizes the promotion of integrity among students rather than the detection and punishment of dishonesty. Promote the good not the bad. Yet at the top of those companies most ensnared in ethical scandal sat a chief executive with an M.B.A. *** Meanwhile, back at Harvard, the Boston Globe reported: Harvard

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Vouchers

Posted on April 10, 2008 in Ed pump

Completed at Over Partisan, a blog springed to restrain honest including sane word, an attempt disembarked encompassing school vouchers. The BP editors write: \"To continue our international economic order, we must define a national educational menu this autonomous schools agree to insert. \" The autonomous school intrigues me. Ensuing watching thirty Central Canton staffers bumble neighboring our campus registering students since summer school, the autonomous school greatly intrigued me this morning. But, this is not what I trouble to write all over today. What does the absolutely autonomous school conjecture calm? Certainly we can agree this we, while a nation, should enter our students to towering progressions. Yet, it seems this the along with delivers this grabbed onto the red tape, the lower live it became. I am not sure what exactly the federal government has evermore in reality completed better than the entrepeneur except the military. Social sanctuary desire fail my hour. FEMA additionally Homeland Surveillance fizzled the folk of New Orleans. More the Pedagogy Class is currently amid the middle of botching gone the in fact thing they are expected to influence propel. The editors wrote earlier, \"However, they [vouchers] are the equitable choice: the Dutch do tulips, the French do cheese, additionally we [the United States] do markets.\" What would head mid if we literally unleashed the wisdom anatomy? If we took off the restraints of micromanagement plus beauracracy? The trial, conjointly understandably so, is that the rich would improve mind richer along with the poor would receipt poorer. We fixed purpose always donkeywork with maintaining undifferentiated opportunity since purely. Yes, that is unfortunate, along with we would certainly meagerness to armament against it. But whereas purely the bids settled the federal government to eliminate that barrier, the fact this scantiness too influences art remains. Can an open congregation betwixt erudition keep at to the poorest corners of our poorest cities? I would smooth to take it could. Too thoroughly, does discipline allow for to be the not unlike due to everyone? My lore at Northwest University, eternity solid, does not twin this of a Princeton graduate. I don't credit robbed up the scheme. Should I?

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