Jason Arday, Ward Churchill, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the Problem of “Academic Misconduct”

BY HANK REICHMAN What might celebrated incidents of “academic misconduct,” specifically plagiarism and falsifications, tell us about the crisis of academia?  Recent events offer some suggestions. Jason Arday, who days earlier had resigned as professor of sociology at Cambridge University in the wake of credible charges of plagiarism and fabrication, was found dead August 14. …