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发帖数: 19398 | 1 Chicago State official sues UIC officials over her dissertation
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-sues-uic-officials-over-her-dissertation-20140721,0,435088.story
A high-ranking administrator at Chicago State University is suing University
of Illinois at Chicago officials after a Chicago Tribune story earlier this
year about her dissertation, alleging people at the school illegally disclo
sed private facts about academic matters, among other allegations.
Angela Henderson, the interim provost and senior vice president at Chicago S
tate University, says a vice chancellor and a dean at UIC illegally disclose
d to Tribune reporter Jodi S. Cohen that a third party filed a complaint wit
h UIC regarding her dissertation, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in C
ook County court.
Henderson, who in 2013 was enrolled in the doctoral nursing program at UIC a
nd received her doctoral degree, said she had been unaware UIC had concerns
about her dissertation until she read the front-page Jan. 14 Chicago Tribune
story that details allegations of plagiarism within it.
Henderson has denied any allegations that she plagiarized her dissertation,
which is titled “Predicting Consistent Condom Use Behavior In African-Ameri
can, Heterosexual Males Aged 18-25 Who Are Enrolled In Community College,”
according to the suit.According to the suit, UIC Vice Chancellor for Academi
c Affairs and Provost Lon Kaufman and Dean of Graduate College Karen Colley
caused a review of Henderson’s dissertation and violated the school’s own
rules in terms of failing to notify students of concerns about their work.
“The first thing that defendants Kaufman and Colley should have done was to
tell Ms. Henderson that there were concerns about her dissertation,” the l
awsuit says.
Michael Leonard, Henderson’s attorney, said Monday the plagiarism allegatio
ns stem from Henderson improperly using quotation marks to cite other author
s’ works.
Henderson cited sources properly, but the dissertation’s use of quotation m
arks “wasn’t perfect,” Leonard said when reached by phone Monday night.
According to the suit, a UIC graduate college committee recommended in Janua
ry 2013 that Henderson revise her dissertation.
“In other words, to the extent there were unintentional errors in Ms. Hende
rson’s dissertation, including the lack of quotation marks, she was request
ed to fix them,” the suit says.
The suit also alleges that, between January and July of this year, Henderson
contacted several UIC senior officials to address concerns regarding her di
ssertation but that she was “largely ignored.”
The suit seeks compensation for damages including loss of a good name, loss
of reputation, shame, interference with Henderson’s career and emotional di
stress. The suit seeks a jury trial.
Bill Burton, a spokesman for UIC, said Monday night that the university has
a policy to not comment on matters in litigation.
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