New Haven, Conn. ? The president of Central Connecticut State University plagiarized from three sources in an opinion piece published in The Hartford Courant, according to an investigative report obtained by The Associated Press.

“This is a clear, unacceptable case of plagiarism,” Connecticut State University Chancellor William Cibes said in his report on Richard Judd’s Feb. 26 commentary. “About half of Dr. Judd’s commentary is taken substantially from the original sources.”

The report, obtained by the AP through the Freedom of Information Act and dated Monday, went to the chairman of the university’s board of trustees.

The board’s executive committee will meet Friday; it could recommend actions from a reprimand to dismissal. The trustees may meet as soon as next Wednesday.

Judd has already apologized to the Faculty Senate in New Britain; the group voted Monday to recommend he keep his job.

Judd, meanwhile, fainted in his office Wednesday afternoon and was hospitalized, a spokesman for the university said.

Kilduff said he did not know what Judd was doing when he fainted, or whether it was related to the plagiarism allegations.

Cibes’ investigation found Judd’s op-ed article about the prospects for peace in Cyprus lifted unattributed, verbatim phrases from a New York Times editorial, from a Web site of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and from an article published a London newspaper, The Independent on Sunday.

Using the material without attribution violates the university’s policy on plagiarism, as well as policies from other universities and professional groups, he said.

Cibes said he was made aware of the plagiarism by alumnus Christopher Ttofi.

Judd said the article grew out of a discussion paper he presented to a social group and was based on notes he’d taken from journal articles, Web sites, personal discussions and newspapers.

“In using material that was gathered for a discussion among friends, and which was never intended for publication, I gave insufficient attention to the exact words and phrases used in the op-ed,” he said on Monday. “I never intended to use words without attribution.”

Judd could not be reached for comment Wednesday.