A historically black university whose president committed plagiarism has become a “criminal enterprise to divert federal and state funds” and steal thousands of iPads, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the former Vice Provost of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
The president of the university, Heidi Anderson, discriminates against white people and plagiarized large portions of her doctoral dissertation. Anderson, president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, recycled other people’s papers without even citing them in her 1986 doctoral dissertation on computers in pharmaceutical education. Much of the “plagiarism comes from a paper published two years earlier by Donna E. Larson, a nursing professor. Anderson’s paper” uses “large swaths of Larson’s work.” Larson is not “mentioned anywhere else in the piece.”
As The Daily Wire notes, the recent federal lawsuit
is one of four similar lawsuits filed in the last few months against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, its president Heidi Anderson, its provost Rondall Allen, and its diversity, equity, and inclusion czar Jason Casares, that all follow a similar pattern: A faculty member allegedly discovers wrongdoing at the university, and then is retaliated against by the university’s DEI office.
Claims from the suits paint a picture of a university with almost no academic standards, that admits 90% of applicants and looks the other way at cheating and truancy to avoid worsening its 17% on-time graduation rate and keep the federal student loan money flowing.
The lawsuit filed July 28 by Sandeep Gopalan, a Rhodes scholar who until recently was the school’s vice president for research and vice provost for academic affairs, said that after he claims to have exposed a scheme by Anderson and other top administrators to steal thousands of iPads, the university axed Gopalan’s program and Ph.D. students in retaliation.
The students were funded by a $4.6 million grant from the federal Department of Education that Gopalan had secured and the university had no ability to terminate, but it dismissed the scholars anyway, falsely suggesting that the Trump administration had cut off funding to the historically black college, he said.
“As a result of this blatantly unlawful act, highly valuable research on cancer, environmental pollution, and AI, representing thousands of hours of research work by the Plaintiff, Ph.D. students and research staff has been stopped,” the suit said…. “Gopalan learned that Rondall Allen and Heidi Anderson were embezzling iPads intended for poor minorities and diverting those resources to their cronies. The thousands of iPads were purchased from a federal grant awarded by the US Department of Commerce.”
On November 10, the state attorney general filed a motion to dismiss Gopalan’s lawsuit. The memorandum in support of the motion observed that Gopalan was acting as his own lawyer, and sought to have the lawsuit thrown out based on jurisdictional and legal technicalities, such as the argument that the university and its officials had “sovereign immunity,” and that he did not provide enough specific facts showing he was a victim of intentional racial discrimination.
