Plagiarism and the Faculty: A case forevidence of scholarship.
Shirley Booth, University of Lund


In January there was a short but energetic discussion in the ACM SIGCSE mailing list on plagiarism by academics seeking a faculty position. It had been seen that their "philosophy of education" had been taken, in all probability, from the work of others. A wide variety of aspects of plagiarism by both faculty and students, and even the relation between them, ensued. Taking this as a starting point, we can discuss plagiarism as it occurs in the faculty and in the literature, and raise the issue of avoiding similar plagiaristic attempts to fool appointment boards with false personal philosophies. As with other fields of scholarship, verifiable evidence must be offered for one's claims.