{"id":107843,"date":"2020-01-09T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=107843"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:38","slug":"executive-board-and-examination-boards-need-to-distance-themselves-from-commissions-plagiarism-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/01\/09\/executive-board-and-examination-boards-need-to-distance-themselves-from-commissions-plagiarism-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Executive Board and examination boards should distance themselves from the plagiarism ruling about Van den Boom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roel Pieterman, Chair of the EUROPA trade union consultation body and former member of the Erasmus School of Law examination board, calls on EUR\u2019s Executive Board and the examination boards to distance themselves from a recent statement by a commission of inquiry regarding alleged plagiarism by former ESHCC dean Dymph van den Boom. According to Pieterman, this statement undermines the very definition of plagiarism.<\/p>\n

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Last year, NRC Handelsblad<\/em> published an article accusing then interim ESHCC dean Dymph van den Boom of having plagiarised other people\u2019s work in her 1988 dissertation, as well as a number of dies orations held during her tenure as Rector Magnificus of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). After being asked by UvA to look into these allegations, professors Ton Hol and Marc Loth concluded last month that while Van den Boom had been \u2018sloppy\u2019, she had not committed plagiarism as such. \u201cNotwithstanding my professional and personal appreciation of both professors, I am concerned that their conclusions could create a serious problem, both within academic education and beyond,\u201d says Pieterman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn essence, they have formulated a new definition of plagiarism, in which an important role is assigned to the individual\u2019s motives. This ruling can easily be adopted as an authoritative source by clever students or lawyers hoping to render a plagiarism charge ineffective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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