Definition
of Academic Misconduct
All members of
the University community are expected to observe high standards
of academic integrity and ethical behavior in research and
publication. Any practice or conduct by a member of the
University community that seriously deviates from those
ethical standards for proposing, conducting, and publishing
research that are commonly accepted within the professional
community constitutes academic misconduct in violation of
University policy.
Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
1. Fabrication
or falsification of data, including intentionally misleading,
selective or deliberately false reporting of credentials
or other academically related information;
2. Unacknowledged
appropriation of the work of others, including plagiarism,
the abuse of confidentiality with respect to unpublished
materials, or misappropriation of physical materials;
3. Evasion of,
or intentional failure after notice by the University or
Federal, State or other appropriate agency to comply with
research regulations or requirements, including but not
limited to those applying to human subjects, laboratory
animals, new drugs, radioactive materials, genetically altered
organisms, and to safety; and
4. Other conduct
which seriously deviates from accepted ethical standards
in scholarship.
Differences of
interpretation or judgment, or honest error, do not constitute
academic misconduct.
For further information
contact:
Howard Guenther
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Research Standards Officer
416 Swanlund Administration Building
(217) 333-0030
rsofficer@uiuc.edu
