Apparently it is, according to Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard, who claims (according to the Chronicle) that: “the chancellors did not personally benefit from using plagiarized material, while Mr. Dussold’s teaching statement was part of a mid-tenure review”, in a plagiarism case that involves a former professor and two of the University’s chancellors.
Idiot, in Greek means a “private individual”. In classical Greece, a private citizen not involved in the public affairs was considered a bad character, hence the derogatory meaning of the word in the English language. In modern Greek, however, idiotic university means literary the private university.
One of the most frustrating things in academia is the lack of a common sense about the line between the time for discussion and the time for action and implementation.
“There are no private, not-for-profit, research universities anywhere in the world“.
