USC President Caslen's grad speech has wording nearly identical to another speaker's
A portion of a commencement address by University of South Carolina President Robert Caslen matches almost word-for-word a passage from a famous speech given seven years ago by a retired military leader.
Caslen’s May 7 speech included a passage about perseverance, courage and character that resembles a 2014 speech given by retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven at the University of Texas at Austin. A book about that speech became a best seller.
The State posted a transcription of Caslen’s 2021 commencement speech into four online plagiarism detectors and each of them said the words were plagiarized. FITSNews first reported on the similarities between the two speeches.
Caslen acknowledged Monday in an email to students, faculty and staff that he used the quote from McRaven without attribution and apologized to the retired Navy Admiral, whom Caslen said he knows and respects.
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If a student made the same error they would flunk the assignment and appear before a disciplinary board.