Honesty and integrity in research and scholarship are at the core of academic life. Academic misconduct cannot be tolerated at any level. Because of the importance of issues of scholarly or scientific misconduct to the operations of the University and because significant expertise is required to address such issues, the University has established an Office of Scholarly Integrity (OSI):

http://www.washington.edu/president/osi.htm

This Office assumes primary responsibility for investigating and resolving allegations of scientific and scholarly misconduct by its faculty, staff, and students.

Inappropriate activities include:

• Intentional misrepresentation of credentials
• Falsification of data
• Plagiarism
• Abuse of confidentiality
• Deliberate violation of regulations applicable to research
• Other practices that seriously deviate from those commonly accepted by the scientific community in proposing, carrying out or reporting results

Please refer to Executive Order #61 and to the University Handbook, Volume II, Section 25-51 for further information: