President of Southern Illinois University
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees announced that they had selected Glenn Poshard to serve as President of the system on Friday, November 18, 2005. He took office on January 1, 2006. Poshard was accused of plagiarism in 2007 after it was revealed that portions of his doctoral dissertation were lifted from another source without attribution . The faculty senate at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville asked Poshard to step down as President. Poshard was later acquitted of plagiarism charges after a university committee he appointed called it "inadvertent plagiarism."
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