The Ethics Commission of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade has asked the National Council for Higher Education (NSVO) to re-appoint a member of the expert commission to determine the non-academic behavior of Jelena Trivan when writing her doctoral dissertation, writes Today.
The request was sent to the National Council on January 25.
This is how the saga continues for more than four years, after "Vreme" revealed that Jelena Trivan copied at least 15 percent of the content in her doctorate without citing the source. Trivan then sued "Vreme" for emotional pain.
The new appeal to the NSVO now follows the fact that the member previously appointed by the Council, Borivoje Baltazarević, resigned from that position at the end of last year, just one day after receiving a draft report, written on the basis of the work of the other three members of the commission. , in which suspicions that Trivan had plagiarized her doctorate were confirmed.
From the beginning, and forever
That brought the work of the commission back to the very beginning.
Boban Arsenijević, a professor at the University of Graz, was elected to the expert committee on the proposal of the Higher Group of Social and Humanities of the University of Belgrade, and the Faculty of Philology appointed professor Snežana Samardžija and assistant professor Stefan Stojanović as members.
U author's text for "Vreme" other members of the Commission described how the government can indefinitely prevent someone's title from being contested.
"Persons who use non-academic behavior to acquire academic titles are often political officials or public figures close to the government. When the offense is proven, the government loses its popularity, so it is in its interest to prevent it. NSVO is a government body, and thus it has both the motive and the means to prevent the functioning of this mechanism," wrote commission members Boban Arsenijević and Snežana Samardžija.
Former Dean of the Council
Aleksandra Vraneš, the former acting dean of the Faculty of Philology, where Jelena Trivan passed almost all the exams for her master's and doctoral studies with a score of ten, and also defended her controversial doctoral dissertation, also sits in the NSVO.
In that work concerning librarianship and multiculturalism, defended in 2013, Trivan took complete chapters and paragraphs from Wikipedia, from unsigned seminar papers that are available on the Internet, as well as from Boško Obradović's book.
Jelena Trivan, a former high-ranking official of the Democratic Party, under the rule of the Serbian Progressive Party, was given leading positions in the Official Gazette and the Film Center, and is now the director of Telekom Republika Srpska.
