Poshard dissertation review committee selected
Catherine Klene
Issue date: 9/18/07 Section: News
Southern Illinois University Carbondale Chancellor Fernando Treviño announced Friday afternoon the seven SIUC faculty members who will review Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard's 1984 doctoral dissertation and 1975 master's thesis for evidence of plagiarism.
The committee is the result of the SIUC student newspaper the Daily Egyptian's plagiarism accusations against Poshard last month. The DE accused Poshard of plagiarizing parts of his dissertation, and the Chronicle of Higher Education said he plagiarized parts of his master's thesis.
Ramanarayanan Viswanathan, electrical computer engineering professor and SIUC Faculty Senate president, will chair the committee.
Also on the committee are: Peggy Stockdale, psychology professor and Facutly Senate vice president; David Worrells, aviation management professor and Faculty Senate secretary; Spyros Tragoudas, electrical and computer engineering professor and SIUC graduate council chair; Brad Colwell, Department of Educational and Administration and Higher Education chair and graduate council vice chair; Lenore Langsdorf, speech communication professor and SIUC Faculty Association vice president; and Philip Howze, library affairs professor.
"Our charge is to be that informal committee to decide whether this charge can be resolved informally," Stockdale said. "We will make a recommendation to the chancellor, and then they will go forward from there."
Stockdale said the committee would base the investigation on the 2007-2008 graduate student conduct code and academic grievances policies and procedures. These policies can be viewed at siu.edu/gradschl/catalog_07-08.htm.
"Even though it's called informal, it's still done in a formal way," Viswanathan said. "(The committee) will figure out if the charges warrant further investigation."
Viswanathan said the committee is expected to meet later this week, and they will discuss how to proceed with the review at that meeting. He also said the committee was created because of the high profile nature of the case.
The committee is the result of the SIUC student newspaper the Daily Egyptian's plagiarism accusations against Poshard last month. The DE accused Poshard of plagiarizing parts of his dissertation, and the Chronicle of Higher Education said he plagiarized parts of his master's thesis.
Ramanarayanan Viswanathan, electrical computer engineering professor and SIUC Faculty Senate president, will chair the committee.
Also on the committee are: Peggy Stockdale, psychology professor and Facutly Senate vice president; David Worrells, aviation management professor and Faculty Senate secretary; Spyros Tragoudas, electrical and computer engineering professor and SIUC graduate council chair; Brad Colwell, Department of Educational and Administration and Higher Education chair and graduate council vice chair; Lenore Langsdorf, speech communication professor and SIUC Faculty Association vice president; and Philip Howze, library affairs professor.
"Our charge is to be that informal committee to decide whether this charge can be resolved informally," Stockdale said. "We will make a recommendation to the chancellor, and then they will go forward from there."
Stockdale said the committee would base the investigation on the 2007-2008 graduate student conduct code and academic grievances policies and procedures. These policies can be viewed at siu.edu/gradschl/catalog_07-08.htm.
"Even though it's called informal, it's still done in a formal way," Viswanathan said. "(The committee) will figure out if the charges warrant further investigation."
Viswanathan said the committee is expected to meet later this week, and they will discuss how to proceed with the review at that meeting. He also said the committee was created because of the high profile nature of the case.
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