"Academic misconduct" refers to any dishonest or unethical behavior that occurs in an educational setting. It includes actions such as cheating, plagiarism (stealing or copying someone else's work without giving them credit), or fabricating information. It is considered wrong because it goes against the principles of fairness, honesty, and integrity in academic work.
Full definition
At the start of a project - based research unit, we reviewed our school handbook's definition
of academic misconduct.
For instance, after just two or three minutes, my students could state the elements of our school's
academic misconduct rule.
In the meantime, Simon James, who blogs at Australian Climate Madness, has submitted a Freedom of Information request to the University of Western Australia in an effort to force the release of emails related to the study, and prominent climate - change skeptic Steve McIntyre has urged readers to email the university with
academic misconduct complaints.
Bloggers on a popular science site, ScienceNet.cn, are hailing the decision as a signal that the government is getting serious about cracking down on
academic misconduct in China.
Discussing and debating these hypos helped me show students that behaviors such as letting non-productive groupmates take credit for work that they didn't perform or simply failing to cite sources properly could also
constitute academic misconduct.
A Pennsylvania State University investigation has found no substance behind allegations of
academic misconduct by climate researcher Michael Mann, one of the central figures in the so - called «Climategate» e-mail scandal.
«To the extent that there are issues with Mann or Jones or any of these guys, they are at
most academic misconduct and should be dealt with under those regimes.»
In the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions» decision, the panel found a former Notre Dame athletic training student violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when she
committed academic misconduct for two football student - athletes and provided six other football student - athletes with impermissible academic extra benefits.
«From our perspective we have done due diligence...
Academic misconduct does not happen very often, and when it does, we consider it to be a very serious matter.»
«The University of Texas at Austin has cleared sociology professor Mark Regnerus of
academic misconduct after he was excoriated by some in the media over a study showing that parents» homosexual relationships can have negative effects on children.
He went 8 - 5 for three straight years, and he was dismissed in the summer of 2011 as part of UNC's ongoing effort to
fight academic misconduct and improper benefits allegations.
Many expat Romanian researchers, as well as some researchers in the country, are now apparently worried that attending the Diaspora conference would equate to
endorsing academic misconduct.
Most universities
take academic misconduct quite seriously, and do not do whitewash, first because they are honest, and second, because if they don't, the «huge hit» has real consequences.
Investigation of
academic misconduct such as plagiarism in a graduate thesis is completely unrelated to funding, if any.
The accepted version, after a complaint of
academic misconduct against Ammann, admitted that the verification r2 of the Mann reconstruction was ~ 0, a point cited by the NAS Panel.
Penn State Inquiry
Committee Academic misconduct investigations are supposed to have two stages: an «inquiry» committee, which is sort of equivalent to a grand jury stage, designed only to see whether there are grounds for an «investigation»; and an «investigation» committee, which is charged to investigate counts arising from the inquiry committee and weigh the defence.
Actually, I disagree with this, in the sense that the bottom line is that it's found in the paper, whoever read it first, and this makes McI's claim of
academic misconduct effing stupid.
Senator James Inhofe (R - OK), a longtime global warming denier who has called man - made climate change «the greatest scientific scandal of our generation,» criticized the award and asked the Justice Department to investigate prominent IPCC scientists for
possible academic misconduct (they were never charged).
I do not accept the characterization of the University's relationship with its students as a purely contractual matter, particularly when it comes to discipline for
non academic misconduct.
The NOVA program also included excerpts from a House Committee on Oversight and Investigations hearing
on academic misconduct.
It is entirely possible that Jones» email destruction enterprise
constituted academic misconduct, even if the statute of limitations prevented criminal prosecution.