Noose Hoax Professor Gets Canned
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including plagiarizing the work of her students!!
But hey, if plagiarism was good enough for Martin Luther King, it's
good enough for her
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The Columbia University professor who gained widespread attention last
fall after a noose was found hanging on her office door was fired on
Monday after months of wrangling over charges that she plagiarized the
work of two former students and a former colleague.
Madonna G. Constantine, a professor of psychology and education with a
focus on racial issues at Columbia’s Teachers College, was sanctioned
in February, after an 18-month investigation into the plagiarism
charge, but allowed to stay in her job and to appeal the ruling that
she had violated the university’s academic standards. But over the
last five months, tensions between Dr. Constantine and the
administration grew more strained as she vigorously defended herself,
filing not just the appeal but also a grievance against Susan Fuhrman,
the college president.
Paul Giacomo, Dr. Constantine’s lawyer, said that the college’s move
to dismiss his client was “purely retaliatory.”
Dr. Constantine has until July 15 to decide whether to challenge her
ouster before one of two faculty committees, Mr. Giacomo said, adding
that she also might sue the college for wrongful termination in either
state or federal court.
A Teachers College spokesman confirmed that Dr. Constantine had been
dismissed pending a hearing by a faculty committee, but otherwise
refused to comment on what led to the action.
A letter announcing the decision, sent Monday to the faculty of the
college, indicated why the punishment had escalated. “During the
months since the college levied sanctions against her, Professor
Constantine continued to make accusations of plagiarism, including in
at least one instance to the press, against those whose works she had
plagiarized,” the letter stated.
Indeed, Dr. Constantine’s lawyer continued to point out during an
interview on Monday that the three people who accused her of
plagiarism were themselves promised indemnity.
The original sanction against Dr. Constantine was never made public,
but the letter was clear that the college now wanted her gone.
“We are terminating Madonna Constantine’s employment with Teachers
College for cause, subject to a hearing before a faculty committee,”
it said. “In the interim Professor Constantine is suspended, effective
immediately.”
The investigation into the plagiarism charges was conducted by the law
firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed, which found “numerous instances in which
she used others’ work without attribution in papers she published in
academic journals over the past five years,” according to a statement
from Teachers College.
Immediately after the findings were announced this winter, Dr.
Constantine derided them as “biased and flawed.”
This month, a faculty committee found her appeal baseless and
dismissed it.
The case attracted more attention than it might have because even as
Dr. Constantine was being investigated on the plagiarism charges, a
noose was found hanging from her office door.
There is a continuing criminal investigation into who placed the noose
on the door, but there have been no charges in the case. When she was
first found guilty of plagiarism, Dr. Constantine linked the two
events.
“I believe that nothing that has happened to me this year is
coincidental, particularly when I reflect upon the hate crime I
experienced last semester involving a noose on my office door,” she
said in February in an e-mail message to faculty and students. “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.”
The college has denied any suggestion that race played any role in the
investigation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/nyregion/24columbia.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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