Now do EVERY diversity officer... hell, every graduate from a "liberal arts" graduate program for the last 10 years.
I personally know people who have a Master's degree who never even WROTE a thesis, let alone plagiarized it. I also know first hand of professors who basically wrote their students' theses just to pass them.
You may think you know how bad it is. You have no idea, because nothing revealed in this article is shocking to the people that did it. They are aware and proud and don't see anything wrong.
That is the problem.
EDIT: for the students who didn't write a thesis, the department offered them a degree so they would leave the phd program, and were transparent it was to "ensure our graduation rate is still 100%"
100% graduation rate in a graduate school. Its a RUBBER STAMP.
Now do EVERY diversity officer... hell, every graduate from a "liberal arts" graduate program for the last 10 years.
I personally know people who have a Master's degree who never even WROTE a thesis, let alone plagiarized it. I also know first hand of professors who basically wrote their students' theses just to pass them.
You may think you know how bad it is. You have no idea, because nothing revealed in this article is shocking to the people that did it. They are aware and proud and don't see anything wrong.
That is the problem.
EDIT: for the students who didn't write a thesis, the department offered them a degree so they would leave the phd program, and were transparent it was to "ensure our graduation rate is still 100%"
100% graduation rate in a graduate school. Its a RUBBER STAMP.