An administrator at Kean University has left the school after being accused of plagiarism, the Star-Ledger reported.
A complaint filed last week accused the university's associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, Katerina Andriotis, of stealing material from two documents filed online. The material was used in nine pages of her 15-page report on campus enrollment management.
The complaint was filed by James Castiglione, head of the Kean Federation of Teachers, the public university's faculty union, on Wednesday. Soon after, another faculty member discovered that a lot of Andriotis' report "appeared" to be plagiarized from documents on the websites of the University of Tennessee and the Center for the Study of College Student Retention.
"This was not some midlevel administrator," Castiglione told the Star-Ledger. "The violations of the Academic Integrity Policy were by the second in command in the Office of Academic Affairs, the very office tasked with enforcing academic standards."
Andriotis told The Star-Ledger that she made the mistake of forgetting to attribute the information because she was overworked.
"Once the draft version of the document was completed, it was ultimately my job to compile the final version of the document, and due to being overworked, I made the serious oversight of forgetting to include the final contributions page," she said. "It saddens me that this oversight will be my legacy at Kean University when I worked very hard to contribute to the reaccreditation of the institution and the successful substantive change application for additional location in Wenzhou, China."
Kean University officials declined to discuss the incident.
"The university does not comment on personnel matters," Terry Golway, a campus spokesman, told the Star Ledger. "I can confirm that she no longer works for the university."
Golway did not say whether she was fired or resigned. Andriotis has worked at Kean since 2012.
