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Worrying trend: Plagiarism penalties diluted, ideological battles jeopardizing academia's credibility; strategic counteraction underway.
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 01/04/2024 9:38:29 AM PST by davikkm

The concern about potential dilution of punishments for plagiarism is troubling. It underscores broader worries about ideological shifts impacting academic integrity. Striking a balance between fairness and maintaining the standards of meritocracy is crucial to preserve academia's credibility. The use of strategic weapons to counteract such trends highlights the escalating ideological battles within educational institutions. The outcome will undoubtedly shape the future landscape of academia and its foundational principles.

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education
KEYWORDS: academia; education; ethics; plagiarism; unethical

1 posted on 01/04/2024 9:38:29 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

A seven-foot high jump is still a seven-foot high jump. A ten-second 100m is still a ten-second 100m. Standards for just about everything else have either been ‘relaxed’ or done away with altogether.


2 posted on 01/04/2024 9:45:57 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: davikkm

the left’s only standard is a double one. This a prime rule of the multiverse.


3 posted on 01/04/2024 9:47:35 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: davikkm

IMHO, “academia HAS NO CREDIBILITY. Now we’re hearing that the student loan deadbeats got grades sheets on which EVERYBODY got A averages. The participation diplomas are worthless. The former president of Harvard, of all places, is a plagiarist. Where’s the credibility? Lowering standards for those on the bottom rungs has its consequences.


4 posted on 01/04/2024 10:01:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America!Biden has turned what was one of the greatest documentaries into a one season retard sitcom.)
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To: davikkm

I cant wait until eventually people start digging into all the “global warming” “science”. It will all be exposed as lies and fabrications eventually.


5 posted on 01/04/2024 10:07:12 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: davikkm

Academia has always been a laughing stock and a commie shithole.

If academics were so smart and educated they wouldn’t be commies. They’re the first to go in a commie purge. Morons.


6 posted on 01/04/2024 10:08:00 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

“Academia has always been a laughing stock and a commie shithole.”

That is the good colleges and universities.

Some are even worse than that!


7 posted on 01/04/2024 10:11:43 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: davikkm

Plagiarism consequences are only reduced when leftist filth do it


8 posted on 01/04/2024 10:28:18 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: HYPOCRACY

Yep. The new rulers liquidate the traitors first.


9 posted on 01/04/2024 10:31:18 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: davikkm

Academia has credibility? Who knew!


10 posted on 01/04/2024 10:33:08 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell)
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To: Chgogal

....this little ditty goes back (waaayyyy back) to my college days when plagiarism was a cardinal sin...today, welllll maybe not so much......

“Plagiarize!
Plagiarize!
Let no man’s work
evade your eyes...!”


11 posted on 01/04/2024 10:47:36 AM PST by TokarevM57
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To: TokarevM57

“Plagiarize!
Plagiarize!
Let no man’s work
evade your eyes...!”

From “Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky”, written by a Harvard Academic, by the name of Tom Lehrer.

I am never forget the day
My first book is published
Every chapter I stole from somewhere else
Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory
This book was sensational!
Pravda - well, Pravda - Pravda said: (Russian double-talk)
It stinks
But Izvestia! Izvestia said: (Russian double-talk)
It stinks
Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles
Changing title to The Eternal Triangle
With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse
And who deserves the credit?
And who deserves the blame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name
Hi!.


12 posted on 01/04/2024 10:50:39 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: davikkm

The Real Purge in Academia
JEFFREY A. TUCKER JANUARY 4, 2024

We have certainly lived through the decline and fall of the older idea of the university.

Now, we may yet live to see the end of the university itself and its replacement by something else entirely.

Reforms can work but the reform will not likely come from within the institutions. They must be imposed by alumni and perhaps legislatures.

Or perhaps the rule of “Go woke, go broke” will eventually force a change.

Regardless, the idea of learning itself will surely return. We are in the transition, and David Barnhizer is our Virgil to give us an outstanding tour of the wreckage left behind and perhaps even a path out of the darkness.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-real-purge-in-academia/


13 posted on 01/04/2024 10:57:56 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("Every single one ohutf us should lose hope with the Biden a": Brandon Judd!!!:)
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To: TokarevM57

“So don’t shade your eyes,
Plagiarize! Yes,
Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize!”


14 posted on 01/04/2024 11:03:42 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: HIDEK6

But be sure to always call it, “Research.”


15 posted on 01/04/2024 11:04:13 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: davikkm

Check the work of anyone who graduated with a grievance studies degree. They all cheated.


16 posted on 01/04/2024 11:47:13 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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