The faculty committee found she had "systematically and intentionally" copied parts of her thesis, Person and Conscience.
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He took a leave of absence after a faculty committee concluded a three-year investigation that was first reported last August by the Globe.
All of this is documented in a report issued this past May by the UC Davis faculty Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (CAFR).
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But the faculty committee concluded that her work, which dealt with the formation of conscience, included a "substantial number of unaccredited direct quotes from other texts".
Deputy Provost and Political Science Professor Frances Rosenbluth served on the faculty committee that reviewed YIISA's performance and concluded that the university should close the center.
In response to my query over the weekend, Yale's Press Secretary Thomas Conroy wrote that the decision to close YIISA was made by a faculty committee during a routine five-year review of the program.
"There has got to be very rigorous documentation that it lives up to the quality of that name, " said Mark Cook, an animal-sciences professor and chairman of the university committee for the faculty senate at the Madison campus.
That committee, which included faculty trained in finance, determined the results to be credible and robust.
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In recent weeks, faculty at Duke and Amherst have voted against elements of expanding MOOCs on their campuses, and 58 Harvard faculty last week called for a new university committee to consider ethical issues related to Harvard's participation in edX, a MOOC-producing consortium led by Harvard and MIT.
The school's announcement last week in a letter sent to faculty, staff, parents and alumni said the committee's leaders would include Lisa Friel, the former chief of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office and a school parent.
In response to the allegations, a Harvard committee on academic integrity led by Harris will present recommendations on how to enforce faculty-wide expectations of academic honesty.
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