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The Problem
A recent investigation by the Chronicle of Higher Education concluded that high profile plagiarism cases are just the tip of the iceberg, and that plagiarism is rife among academics.
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Stephen Ambrose
One of the most respected historians and an expert on World War II, Ambrose was found to have lifted complete passages of books by his fellow historians and pass it off as his own work.
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Michael Bellesiles
The Emory University professor and winner of the Columbia University Bancroft Prize for his book Arming America, Bellesiles was concluded to have "intentionally falsified or fabricated research data."
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Brian VanDeMark
The book Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb by VanDeMark, a tenured professor at The Naval Academy, had over 30 passages of plagiarized work.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Considered an academic's academic, Goodwin remains one of the most well-respected public intellectual, despite discoveries that scores of passages from her book The Kennedys and The Fitzgeralds were plagiarized. She currently commands $40,000 per speaking engagement.
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Louis W. Roberts
The respected chairman of the classics department at the State University of New York at Albany resigned his position in 2002 for plagiarizing over 50 page of Latin translations from other scholars.
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Roger Shepard
A fine-arts professor at the New School left his job in 2004
after acknowledging that he lifted portions of one of his
books from another professor's book.
Laurence Tribe
The eminent constitutional scholar was embroiled in a major
plagiarism scandal about passages from a 1985 book.
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
A leading law professor at Harvard, Ogletree was disciplined
by Harvard after admitting that portions of his new book
were plagiarized. He blamed the error on two assistants.