Stole students’ work
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The black Columbia University professor who last fall found a hangman’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3233 pinned to her office door plagiarized the work of another faculty member and two students, according to a school investigation released yesterday.
The plagiarism probe was already under way last year when a 4-foot twine http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3443 was discovered on the door of psychology and education professor Madonna Constantine’s office, officials at the university’s Teachers College said.
They said they disciplined Constantine for stealing other people’s work for articles she published in academic journals.
They cited two dozen instances of plagiarism over the past five years that were substantiated in an 18-month investigation by a Manhattan law firm.
Teachers College spokesman Joe Levine would not say how Constantine was punished, but college officials said her position is secure.
In a statement e-mailed to Bloomberg News Service yesterday, Constantine said she was the victim of a racist conspiracy. The school accused her of plagiarism because of the “structural racism that pervades this institution,” she charged. “As one of only two tenured black women full professors at Teachers College, it pains me to conclude that I have been specifically and systematically targeted.”
Constantine said she would appeal to a faculty committee.
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