To: All Faculty <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Tony G. Waldrop" <twaldrop@staff.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: judyhans@uiuc.edu

 Subject: MASSMAIL - Annual Message on Research Integrity Policies

ANNUAL MESSAGE ON RESEARCH INTEGRITY POLICIES

TO:		All Faculty 

FROM:	Tony G. Waldrop
		Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and
		Interim Dean of the Graduate College


NOTE:  Please bring this message also to the attention of all staff and 
students who may be working with you on research.

Federal and state sponsors of research require all faculty, staff, and 
students engaged in sponsored research be informed regularly about campus 
policies on research integrity.

The University-wide procedures for addressing particular instances of 
unethical conduct in research and publication are stated in the POLICY AND 
PROCEDURES ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION.  This 
document is available on the Web at  http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/vcres/ai/  
Under this policy, 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 commonly accepted ethical 
standards within the professional community for proposing, conducting, and 
publishing research constitutes academic misconduct in violation of 
University policy.

Academic misconduct, as defined in the University Policy includes, but is 
not limited to:
a.  Fabrication or falsification of data, including intentionally 
misleading, selective, or deliberately false reporting of credentials or 
other academically related information; 
b.  Unacknowledged appropriation of the work of others, including 
plagiarism, the abuse of confidentiality with respect to unpublished 
materials, or misappropriation of physical materials;
c.  Evasion of or intentional failure after notice by the University or 
federal, state or another 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
d.  Other conduct which seriously deviates from accepted ethical standards 
in scholarship.
Differences of interpretation or judgment or honest error do not constitute 
academic misconduct.

A student, staff or faculty member who believes that academic misconduct 
has occurred has several options for pursuing the matter informally.  Most 
such problems can and should be resolved without resort to formal 
procedures.  Such resolution occurs through consultation with an adviser, 
department or unit head, or the campus Research Standards Officer, Michael 
Loui, Associate Dean of the Graduate College.

If you have questions about this policy, please contact Dean Loui at 
333-6715 or 
m-loui@uiuc.edu
In addition to the previously mentioned POLICY AND PROCEDURES ON ACADEMIC 
INTEGRITY IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION (http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/vcres/ai/), 
I would like to bring your attention to the following official campus 
statement on "Responsible Professional Conduct:  Guidelines for Teaching, 
Research, and Service."  This statement is printed in the ACADEMIC STAFF 
HANDBOOK (1998-2000), pp. 62-65, and available on the Web at  
http://webster.uihr.uiuc.edu/ahrhandbook/chap5/academic_integrity.html

The statement is also printed in the HANDBOOK FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND 
ADVISORS (January 1999), pp. 48-50, and available on the Web at 
http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/grad_handbook/XII.html

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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