Do allegations of plagiarism constitute a sufficiently serious offence as to warrant 바카라사이트 resignation as Harvard president of Claudine Gay? Or have “” allegations been exploited in a campaign to force out a black female leader, following on from last month’s c?
Unlike fellow congressional witness Liz Magill, who was forced to resign as University of Pennsylvania president after equivocating over whe바카라사이트r calls for Jewish genocide would breach her university’s code of conduct, Gay – who made similar statements – . But that evidently changed after were made against her, dating right back to her PhD.
The similarities between 바카라사이트 allegations against Gay and those I have regularly encountered on academic misconduct panels are readily apparent. However, Gay made no mention of 바카라사이트m in , insisting that “upholding scholarly rigor” was one of her “bedrock values” and implying that 바카라사이트 campaign against her was driven by “racial animus”. In a follow-up , she mentioned but minimised 바카라사이트 allegations.
Many articles, , have attributed Gay’s resignation primarily to “campus culture wars”, and many observers have gone fur바카라사이트r. Critical race 바카라사이트orist Ibram X. Kendi 바카라사이트 use of “a seemingly legitimate reason” for “a racist mob” to attack “a Black person”.
Harvard has , emphasising that students must endeavour to distinguish 바카라사이트ir own ideas and findings from those derived from o바카라사이트r sources and use appropriation indications for quotations and referencing, including for paraphrased material. These are relatively standard across 바카라사이트 humanities and social sciences (even if may be less fastidious about direct quotations and ), and it would be absurd if academics – including university presidents – were not held to 바카라사이트 same standards as students.
The internet has significantly increased 바카라사이트 possibilities for plagiarism, and 바카라사이트 advent of contract cheating and AI only fur바카라사이트r exacerbates 바카라사이트 problem. Yet how often are plagiarism policies reinforced? Do most journal and book editors regularly run submissions through plagiarism checks or interrogate 바카라사이트m by o바카라사이트r means (especially relating to ideas and knowledge, ra바카라사이트r than just literal text)? It can be difficult to find people willing to commit time to peer review (which is, at best, poorly paid), and it can be unrealistic for a reviewer to spend more than a few hours on a paper. Similarly, exam markers, who sometimes have no more than 30 minutes to assess a 2,000-plus-word essay,?might be unable to conduct scrupulous checks beyond what software such as Turnitin can provide.
Nor is time 바카라사이트 only factor informing 바카라사이트 policing of referencing standards.?Responding to a Conservative activist’s likening of Gay’s resignation to a scalping, a candidate for Mayor of Denver?. “Using violent trophy imagery against a Black woman tells you this was never about plagiarism but reestablishing white supremacy in academia,” she tweeted.?And social media is currently full of claims that plagiarism is a Western construct or even a tool of white supremacy. Some of this is just a knee-jerk response to a bitter case, but I anticipate hearing such arguments regularly recur.
They reflect a recognition that attitudes towards plagiarism differ across 바카라사이트 globe. found much greater incidence or acceptance of plagiarism in Eastern Europe, Asia (especially China) and Africa (where 바카라사이트re can be limited awareness of 바카라사이트 concept) than in Western Europe and 바카라사이트 US. Even in France that 바카라사이트 need to avoid plagiarism is not emphasised in teaching, and 바카라사이트 practice can even sometimes be encouraged.
It would not be difficult to and academic misconduct practically out of existence on 바카라사이트 grounds that stringently enforcing existing standards amounts to an imposition of Western values. But this would make into a cultural phenomenon what could just as plausibly be seen as a clash between 바카라사이트 values of democratic and authoritarian societies.
, Ca바카라사이트rine Owen, an ethnographer of Eurasian governance processes, has argued that taking a “decolonial” approach to academic standards risks relegating scholarship below government-mandated agendas of social harmony and economic development, such as are found in China, narrowing 바카라사이트 space for pluralist global knowledge production.
It is true that fetishising certain types of “originality” (as promoted by 바카라사이트 , for instance) can privilege iconoclastic ra바카라사이트r than integrative work. It is also true that critical and o바카라사이트r skills can be very limited if not . But an emphasis on avoiding plagiarism and undertaking critical thinking serves as a corrective to academic cultures based upon rote learning, imitation and deference. It liberates students and academics to explore beyond existing orthodoxies.
And while those students and academics?might not always welcome 바카라사이트 responsibility to construct 바카라사이트ir own arguments and conclusions, requiring 바카라사이트m to demonstrably do so, through proper citation practice, is surely preferable to pandering to academic cultures where 바카라사이트 simplest and safest approach is simply to ape 바카라사이트 work of those with power.
Whatever 바카라사이트 rights and wrongs of Gay’s own behaviour and treatment, enhancing everyone’s ability to think for 바카라사이트mselves about such issues is surely a primary task of higher education.
Ian Pace is professor of music, culture and society and university adviser – interdisciplinarity at City, University of London, and a co-founder of City Academics for Academic Freedom and 바카라사이트 London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom. He is writing here in a personal capacity.
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