story I'm on retraction watch:
Eric Jones, dean of engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, appears to have engaged in extensive plagiarism in the final report submitted to the National Science Foundation for grant funding, Retraction Watch has learned.
The $28,238 grant will support a three-day event entitled „Increasing Financial Literacy to Expand Participation in Engineering,“ which Jones and his wife Felicia Jefferson hosted for 21 students in April 2022 in Washington, D.C. We supported some of the workshops. Another award to Jefferson earned him $21,757.
Jones submitted a final report to the agency in May 2023. Retraction Watch obtained a copy of that report through a public records request to Mr. Jones' former employer, the University of Texas at Arlington, and identified three public sources of extended language used by Mr. Jones without citation or citation. did. Quotation marks. . . .
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they suffer Executioners Please continue torment we.
Seriously, between his salary from the University of Nevada and his National Science Foundation grant, this guy is using a lot of public money to produce some really bad work. It seems like a real failure on the part of UNR and NSF oversight to let this go like this.
Retraction Watch did a great job following up on this story.
P.S. I forgot include Quotes from UNR luminaries:
„In Eric Jones, our university has a dynamic leader who understands how to seize moments of opportunity to advance our goals of excellence,“ said President Brian Sandoval.
„What's interesting about having Mr. Jones as the new dean of the College of Engineering is that he has a lot of insight into what it means to be a Carnegie R1 'highly advanced research' institution and where we stand today,“ said Dean Jeff Thompson. It's about having a clear understanding of that.“ “He has a very clear understanding of how we can strengthen all aspects of the College of Engineering so that we can continue to build a transcendent program for engineering education and research.”
Also:
Jones held a three-year rotational detail at the National Science Foundation, where she served as program director for the Engineering Directorate for the Engineering Research Center Program.
It's embarrassing that he works for NSF and plagiarizes the money and pays it back by filing a plagiarism report. But hey, isn't this what University President Brian Sandoval calls „understanding how to seize moments of opportunity to advance the cause of excellence?“
What could be better than taking government funds and using them to publish plagiarized reports and crayon drawings?
If the Dean of Engineering at UNR were to do this, it would seem fine. What will happen to UNR students who do something like this? They won't be paid $372,127 for it, but will the university at least give them a tuition discount?
PPS That being said, don't forget that there are things like: worse case Corruption there. The UNR case particularly bothers me, in part because it's close to my work, but if a colleague of mine receives his NSF funding, we'll use it to prepare a plagiarism report. That means they haven't. It's also because the problem is so obvious. If you look at the papers published by this engineering dean in a previous post, you can see that they are disjointed and devoid of substance even before the plagiarism begins. It's hard to believe that his hiring was simply a lack of oversight.he will have to work really hard do not have Look at his publication issues. But yeah, there are a lot of worse things happening that we read about in the newspapers every day.