[Retracted] Liberal College President Embroiled in Major Plagiarism Scandal

This story has been updated to reflect new information 10/28/2025

10/29/25 This story has been corrected and the allegation of plagiarism has been retracted in light of new information: Red Right Patriot Retracts Its Statement In The October 6, 2025 Article Entitled ‘Liberal College President Embroiled in Major Plagiarism Scandal’ 

In light of the new information provided by representatives of Dr. Anderson that “her doctoral advisor, Professor Emeritus of Purdue University, has publicly confirmed that no academic misconduct occurred, noting that Dr. Anderson’s dissertation complied with the APA citation standards in effect at that time (1980–1984)” we are retracting the article and apologize to Dr. Anderson for any harm, distress, or reputational damage caused.

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Turns out, when it comes to leading America’s public universities, integrity is optional — as long as you’re hitting the right diversity quotas and dropping the right buzzwords.

Because the president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Heidi M. Anderson, is now at the center of a plagiarism scandal so blatant, so jaw-droppingly lazy, it makes high school term paper mills look like original thought factories.

And yet, somehow, she’s still got the top job.

Anderson — who also happened to serve as president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, just in case you needed a reminder of how deep this rot goes — has built a four-decade academic career on a doctoral dissertation that looks more like a copy-paste buffet than a piece of original research.

The Daily Wire sifted through the mess and, well, it’s not pretty.

Whole chunks of her 1986 dissertation — you know, the foundational piece of work that launched her entire academic trajectory — appear to be lifted verbatim from other authors. Not cited. Not paraphrased. Straight-up Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. In some cases, she didn’t even bother to change the wording. Other times, she swapped out a few nouns (like “nursing” for “pharmacy”) or added woke grammar updates like turning “his” into “his/her,” as if that somehow makes the theft more progressive.

Oh, and get this — she even copied someone else’s summary of a book instead of reading the book herself. That’s not scholarship. That’s a high-effort SparkNotes scam.

But wait. It gets better.

Because when confronted, she didn’t deny it. She issued the classic bureaucratic response: “I take these concerns with the utmost seriousness” and said there would be an “assessment.” Which, in academic speak, means: let’s stall this until the headlines fade.

But plagiarism is just the tip of the dumpster fire.

A federal lawsuit filed by former UMES professor Donna Satterlee paints an even uglier picture. According to the suit, under Anderson’s leadership, faculty hiring and promotions weren’t based on qualifications or merit — they were based on race. And not subtly, either.

Satterlee alleges that unqualified Black faculty were hired and paid more, while White and Asian professors were assigned their workload and denied promotions, credit, and decent salaries. In her own words:

“Heidi Anderson has instituted a two-tier system of racial preferences.”

Satterlee says she was forced out after daring to request a salary audit by race, and — horror of horrors — correcting grammatical errors in communications from her boss. That got her labeled as a bully by the school’s DEI office, which is led by a man who, you’ll be thrilled to know, was previously accused of sexual assault at another university before quietly landing this new gig.

Nothing to see here. Just your tax dollars at work.

Sure. Assess away. Right after you hand over that PhD and clear out the office.

And yet somehow, despite this academic wreckage, Anderson wasn’t just running a single campus — she was the face of public universities nationwide. She testified before Congress. She boasted about “safe spaces for farmers.” She celebrated “diverse faculties” and talked about “climate change” like it was a core subject in pharmacy school.

Funny how the “diversity” part gets press releases, but the “plagiarism” part gets shoved in a back room for “review.”

And if you think this is an isolated incident, think again.

Because remember Darryll Pines, president of the flagship University of Maryland College Park? Turns out his 5,000-word paper on rocket science borrowed over 1,500 words from a random Australian student’s online tutorial — complete with edited spellings to hide the origin. More than a year later, the so-called “review panel” has said… nothing.

So here’s the question no one in the ivory tower seems to want to ask:

What happens when the people running our universities never earned their way in?

What happens when the gatekeepers of higher education are just political appointees in lab coats — armed with fake footnotes, DEI checkboxes, and a shield of bureaucratic nonsense?

What happens when “equity” trumps ethics, and nobody dares hold anyone accountable — as long as they say all the right things?

Because that’s the real scandal here.

Not just that a university president plagiarized. But that, in today’s academic world, barely makes the list of disqualifying offenses.

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