Black Plague
06-24-2008, 03:24 AM
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/teachers-college-suspends-professor-who-made/80503/
Teachers College at Columbia University is suspending indefinitely Madonna Constantine, a professor who claimed she was the victim of a hate crime after an investigation began into allegations that she committed plagiarism
The letter, obtained by The New York Sun from a source at Teachers College, said the faculty advisory committee upheld an 18-month investigation by a Manhattan law firm, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, which found that Ms. Constantine had plagiarized two dozen times works of two former doctoral students and a former colleague.
When news of the plagiarism investigation became known in February, Ms. Constantine strenuously denied the charges. In addition to saying it was she who was the victim of plagiarism, the professor said the school targeted her because of the "structural racism that pervades this institution."
Teachers College at Columbia University is suspending indefinitely Madonna Constantine, a professor who claimed she was the victim of a hate crime after an investigation began into allegations that she committed plagiarism
The letter, obtained by The New York Sun from a source at Teachers College, said the faculty advisory committee upheld an 18-month investigation by a Manhattan law firm, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, which found that Ms. Constantine had plagiarized two dozen times works of two former doctoral students and a former colleague.
When news of the plagiarism investigation became known in February, Ms. Constantine strenuously denied the charges. In addition to saying it was she who was the victim of plagiarism, the professor said the school targeted her because of the "structural racism that pervades this institution."