The University of Düsseldorf has revoked Germany's federal education minister's doctoral title.
"Based on an internal university analysis of Schavan's doctoral thesis, which she submitted in 1980, and on her own statement regarding her work, the committee voted 12 to 2 to invalidate her academic title, Bleckmann said. There was one abstention. 'As a doctoral candidate, she systematically and deliberately presented intellectual efforts throughout her entire dissertation that were not her own,' Bleckmann said. Large sections of the work, he continued, had been taken from elsewhere without adequate attribution. As such, she was guilty of 'intentional deception through plagiarism.'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/education-minister-schavan-has-ph-d-revoked-in-plagiarism-scandal-a-881707.htmlI attended a seminar this last weekend at which one speaker introduced himself as having no doctoral title, 'not even one that had been revoked.'
Since the minister's lawyers have already made a statement declaring that the entire process was "error ridden" and "materially illegal" and claiming that the extent of the erroneously cited passages does not justify the revocation of the minister's doctor title, it looks like the 'fun' has just begun.
Chris Bruce, ABD ['All But Dissertation'],
doctoral candidate ('temporarily' withdrawn
from the program since 1996), deciding to
leave his dissertation in the drawer
for at least another 17 years, in
Kiel, Germany
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