Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles.
John Pelissero, a former interim college president who now works for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said instances of plagiarism deserve to be evaluated individually and that it’s not always so cut and dried.
“You’re looking for whether there was intentionality to mislead or inappropriately borrow other people’s ideas in your work,” Pelissero said. “Or was there an honest mistake?”
Good luck using this excuse as an undergrad after making the same “mistake” dozens of times.
Exactly right.
Good luck using this excuse as an undergrad after making the same “mistake” dozens of times.