{"id":39404,"date":"2023-07-01T16:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-university-of-liberia-denies-allegations-of-academic-fraud"},"modified":"2023-07-01T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T16:35:53","slug":"liberia-university-of-liberia-denies-allegations-of-academic-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-university-of-liberia-denies-allegations-of-academic-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: University of Liberia Denies Allegations of Academic Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Cllr. Jallah Barbu, the Dan of the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia, has claimed that Cllr. Lucia Sonii-Gbala, an assistant professor who resigned after accusing two of her students of academic fraud, has yet \u201cto provide evidence to support her claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gbala claimed that her resignation was triggered by the university’s decision to clear students who failed her course for its 103 convocations recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am resigning as a consequence of (i) the recent event involving the unilateral change of the final grades of the Applied Legal Studies II Course taught by me, (ii) the arbitrary clearance of students, who failed ALS II, for graduation, and (iii) the fact that a request for investigation still remains unaddressed by the University of Liberia.<\/p>\n

However, Barbu disagreed and claimed that the University was forced to undertake a review of Gbala’s grades after realizing that \u2018her grading was foreign\u2019.<\/p>\n

Barbu noted that when he engaged Gbala, he was told that the entire class had engaged in plagiarizing for which the mark \u201cP\u201d and \u201cV\u201d were used.<\/p>\n

Barbu added that students who had the foreign marks on their copybooks began to inquire, leading to Gbala being asked to review her grading to comply with the University\u2019s system but she refused.<\/p>\n

Barbu noted that Gbala\u2019s decision to boycott two separate meetings with both the University President and Vice President prompted the University to set up a committee to review the grades she had submitted foreignly.<\/p>\n

Barbu observed that \u201cnone of the copybooks reviewed contained a single comment referencing similarities of answers and the grammar, analysis, and general content of literally all \u201cthe copybooks\u201d were not close to \u201cany publishable material.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, the above reason is not sufficient to allow the University to make a final determination as answers were reviewed against the question.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe University authorities, at a meeting with the president, instructed that I, the senior lecturer, report accordingly. I reasoned I could do this alone, therefore I asked Associate Dean Sumo and together we undertook a detailed review of each student\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur findings were interesting. First, you made very positive comments on students\u2019 books, commending them in most parts of their answers. A notation of excellent or very good signals an acceptable work product. How could that lead to disqualification? Not a single copybook had any comment on academic malpractice such as spying or plagiarism.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo copybook contained a single comment referencing another copybook for similarity of answers,\u201d he said. \u201cOn the other hand the grammar, analysis, and general content of literally all of the copybooks do not reach close to any published materials. One wonders how this could be plagiarism?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gbala is the second faculty member to resign from the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, specifically citing the school administration\u2019s alleged tolerance for academic fraud.<\/p>\n

The first to resign was former Chief Justice Frances Johnson-Allison, who accused two students, Alimatu Nuri Hutchinson and Ebenezer Mass Wilson, of conniving with her secretary, Allen Toe, to alter their failing grades from \u201cD\u201d grades to \u201cC,\u201d which paved the way for their graduation.<\/p>\n

Barbu, who is also a professor at the law school, said an investigative team was set up by the school\u2019s authority to review the students\u2019 copybooks, and there was no evidence of plagiarism.<\/p>\n

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