hamadaCZ--The Said business school has received donations from a number of unsavory characters, but Wafi, the Saudi-Syrian arms trader is perhaps the least savory. But that is par for the course in higher ed. Eliha Yale of Yale University fame was a governor in the East India Company that made his fortune robbing South Asians. Balliol College of Oxford University was founded in the 13th century as penance of John Balliol for have done very bad things in his life. Andrew Carnegie of Carnegie-Mellon University fame, was a notorious steel baron whose treatment of his workers would make industrial city living look luxurious. The list goes on and on.
My sense that plagiarism is more difficult as we inter the digital age. Simple internet searches and the availability of dissertations digitally enable the powers that be (and other academics who are not attached to the institution) to check these things. This is why so many many famous people are being caught today for things they wrote some time ago.
hamadaCZ--The Said business school has received donations from a number of unsavory characters, but Wafi, the Saudi-Syrian arms trader is perhaps the least savory. But that is par for the course in higher ed. Eliha Yale of Yale University fame was a governor in the East India Company that made his fortune robbing South Asians. Balliol College of Oxford University was founded in the 13th century as penance of John Balliol for have done very bad things in his life. Andrew Carnegie of Carnegie-Mellon University fame, was a notorious steel baron whose treatment of his workers would make industrial city living look luxurious. The list goes on and on.
My sense that plagiarism is more difficult as we inter the digital age. Simple internet searches and the availability of dissertations digitally enable the powers that be (and other academics who are not attached to the institution) to check these things. This is why so many many famous people are being caught today for things they wrote some time ago.