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[charlottezweb]

The week is going fairly well.

Tues:
Had a meeting with my Dept head about my goals for the coming year and my accomplishments of the past year. I have no idea what to write but it's due by Fri. That's what I'll be working on during my office hours today. Also talked about my snotty english brat--she suggested I talk to the counselors since students don't have traditional advisors.

Discovered that a student totally plagarised a paper. I'm still deciding what to do and think I need to seek more experienced advice. I'm going to talk to the counselors about that too.

Weds:
Classes were fine, although my 930am class was really dead. Also saw my spring schedule on the school website--still two days in Marietta but not till 11am so I should miss the worst of the traffic. My Cartersville classes are TTH from 9am-1215pm...nice and compact.

Had a UU board meeting at Landmark--drove over with pfunque. Went ok--lots of talking, not enough decisions. Very tasty fish sandwich though. :)

Thurs:
Today I get paid!!! Yay!!! Will get and cash my check during lunch/office hours and buy lunch. and necessities that can't wait until tommorrow, like diapers.

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[lorres.livejournal.com]

Had a meeting with my Dept head about my goals for the coming year and my accomplishments of the past year. I have no idea what to write but it's due by Fri.

We do that every year, and I think it helps me to get the goals part out of my file and look at it a few times each year to stay on track. I put in all the workshops I'm developing or preparing/updating, all the surveying of users about services, conferences/continuing ed I'm planning, new ideas I want to develop, changes I want to make and things of that nature.

I go through my calendar every year to find and list out accomplishments, and try to add stuff to my c.v. at that point too, just to keep it reasonably up to date.

Discovered that a student totally plagarised a paper.

Our school has a whole set of consequences, and it's serious. The students go through a judicial referral and a sort of due process, so it's not totally up to the instructor (so it's less personal) and gives the student a strong impression that this is not a good thing and lots of people are investigating.

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

Most places have both a firm policy about what to do about plagiarism and an informal practice. You'll want to know what both are and what the consequences are of pursuing either.

[genomekelly.livejournal.com]

At one of my former institutions of higher education there was essentially no honor code. Or at least when I discovered unquestionable evidence of egregious plagiarism, I got absolutely no backing from more-senior faculty in my department concerning prosecuting the offense. ("Yes, zie is a first-year graduate student, but zie is from a third-world country where they do things differently and zir's family probably made tremendous financial sacrifices to send zir to the US. You don't want zir to be deported in disgrace, do you?" Um, I had a clearly described anti-plagiarism policy in the course. Surely reading-for-comprehension was a graduate-school admission requirement. The student really couldn't hide behind non-fluency in English as a defense. Yet there was no middle road between the ridiculous extremes of expulsion/deportation and doing nothing, which is what happened.)

It's almost seven years on, and the episode still sticks in my craw.

Ick! Pttui!