Professor At Columbia Will Keep Her Job

Columbia University’s Teachers College will not dismiss Madonna G. Constantine, the professor it charged with plagiarizing numerous works by another professor and two former students.

On Thursday, she renewed her claims that the investigation was biased and that the president, Susan H. Fuhrman, had tried to force her to resign. She said she had not plagiarized anyone’s work and stepped up her public defense.

Her lawyer released a statement by Barbara Wallace, the other black woman in a full tenured position at Teachers, charging that the college’s actions were hasty and left it “vulnerable to the appearance of racial bias.”