Overview
- The University System of Maryland announced Friday that a joint investigation with UMD found no scholarly misconduct by President Darryll Pines after more than a year of review.
- Law firm Ropes & Gray conducted three independent rounds of assessment triggered by a Daily Wire report on a 2002 paper and related concerns about other works.
- Investigators said two papers contained select introductory passages that mirrored previously published text and noted a separate authorship assignment discrepancy.
- The committee concluded Pines was not responsible for the overlapping language and determined he did not commit misconduct in any of the three works examined.
- Regents and system leaders expanded the inquiry to additional co-authored publications and publicly reaffirmed their confidence in Pines’s leadership.