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New Compliance Requirements Issued by Office of Vice Chancellor for Research

At its recent meeting, the CUNY Academic Council discussed areas of research compliance that have come under scrutiny from external funding agencies: research misconduct, plagiarism, falsification of data, and fabrication. To ensure full knowledge and understanding of these issues at CUNY, the council decided to establish new requirements for online training in responsible conduct of research (RCR).

All CUNY faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students involved in research-related activities are required to complete the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative's (CITI) Responsible Conduct of Research training module. The RCR training certificate will be valid for five years, at which point researchers will have to re-take the course. This certificate must be given to the Research Integrity Officer of the researcher's college and to his/her grants office if the research is funded. The RCR online training module can be reached from the vice chancellor's website at
http://www.cuny.edu/research/compliance/training-education.html.

We will be working closely with our campus RIO, Steven Schwartz, to help faculty and their staff meet these requirements.