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...Question Of Honor" [May 28] Duke University vice provost Bob Thompson defended the decision to abandon the Turnitin.com plagiarism-detection website on the ground that checking student work for plagiarism is inconsistent with "a place that is trying to presume honor." Honor is wonderful and admirable, but it cannot be willed upon a group of young men and women. Ethics courses and elegant speeches about the value of integrity are not enough to curb academic dishonesty. Thompson seems to think honest students are hurt by the expression of mistrust implicit in using Turnitin. Those students are smart enough to know...
...When she stepped down from Duke in 2004, capping 24 years of leadership in higher education, Keohane resigned from her posts on several boards and joined her husband Robert as a visiting professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She says she had planned to devote herself entirely to her research and teaching as a political scientist. A phone call from then-University President Lawrence H. Summers made her reconsider...
...Keohane, the past president of Duke University and Wellesley College, says that as a political scientist, she was thrilled to connect with more than 300 years of institutional leadership, but said that the incident spoke volumes about Harvard governance...
...Keohane taught at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania before serving as president of Wellesley for twelve years. In 1993 she moved on to Duke, where she served as the university’s first female president and presided over one of the largest capital campaigns in the history of higher education...
...with finding a new leader. James R. Houghton ’58, the senior fellow of the Corporation and chairman of glassworks company Corning Inc., headed the presidential search committee, joined by former Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson, computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64, former Duke and Wellesley president Nannerl O. Keohane, Georgetown Law professor Patricia A. King, Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72, economist Robert D. Reischauer, University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, and Citigroup chairman Robert E. Rubin ’60, a former Treasury secretary and close...