Handling student or staff misconduct

Topic: Managing information about plagiarism cases

What to do you think...

Do we need to capture information about plagiarists and their activities systematically for the public record?

For this exercise you are asked to browse the Academia section of the web site “Famous Plagiarists. Com” maintained by Dr John Lesko at http://www.famousplagiarists.com/academia.htm

An excerpt from the introduction to this section…

“ Within this webspace devoted to academia, the famous cases of plagiarism … include a number of student cases which made the headlines, some of the more notable offenses by members of the academic elite whose offenses generated some rather big ripples, and other lesser plagiarists in academia whose offenses didn't make a very big splash at all.”

Focus questions

What happens to ideas of academic originality and plagiarism when offending cases attract public attention?
Are there ways in which scholarly practices of academic acknowledgement might learn from or be advanced by media naming and shaming efforts?
Where would you turn if you needed to find out more about how to gain access or provide access to information about cases of student or staff plagiarism?

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Introduction to this topic