GOVERNING DOCUMENTS: RESEARCH

POLICY:	UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA POLICY ON ACADEMIC FRAUD
Effective Date:	April 25, 1991
Revised Date:
Review Date:
Approving Body:	Board of Governors
Authority:
Implementation:
Contact:	Vice-President (Academic) and Provost
Applies to:	All

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Fraud in research is a serious breach of the academic commitment of faculty members, and others concerned with the research endeavours of the University, to "the search for truth and its free exposition". For the purposes of this policy, academic fraud is deemed to include acts such as the following:

1. Falsification: alteration, selective omission or misrepresentation of research data or citations.

2. Fabrication:invention or forging of research data or citations.

3. Plagiarism: representing the thoughts, writings or inventions of another as one's own.

Such acts may be committed with varying degrees of deliberateness. It must be recognized that the borderline between carelessness and negligence, on the one hand, and intentional dishonesty, on the other, may be very narrow or difficult to draw precisely. The result is objectionable in any case, even if different degrees of discipline are appropriate. It is reasonable to require a high standard of conduct of academics.

Principal and co-investigators who have failed to exercise reasonable responsibility in directing and supervising researchers who have committed academic fraud must share in the blame for fraud and should be disciplined accordingly.