Through a statement, this Wednesday the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) decided to fire Martha Rodriguez Ortiz, the thesis advisor to the minister Yasmin Esquivel, accused of plagiarism of his undergraduate theses.
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“CWith the official notification, issued on January 17, 2023, the employment relationship of Professor Rodríguez Ortiz with any academic entity of the National University, as well as the payment of their salaries, are totally suspended.said the maximum house of studies in the statement.
In the same way, it specifies that the above was determined after they were evaluated the elements that “confirm that the teacher engaged in conduct contrary to the purposes and purposes pursued by this house of studies, and considering the express confession of the thesis director of having shared and provided the thesis project from one student to another.”
Let us remember that the technical council of the UNAM Law School discussed last Monday the case of plagiarism of the minister’s thesis and today the university said that the decision to terminate the employment contract with the teacher was due to the fact that serious flaws were found in her performance academic, as well as in her role as director of professional theses.
