UvA takes preliminary decision on report external WI committee

On 1 June 2019, the UvA's Executive Board established an external committee for Academic Integrity to investigate possible violations of academic integrity in the speeches and dissertation of former Rector Dymph van den Boom. The committee, led by Prof. Ton Hol, a professor at Utrecht University, delivered its report on 16 December 2019. The committee concluded that there was a pattern of inadequate citation of sources and carelessness in referencing the ideas of others. This could and should have avoided, but in the case at hand there was no violation of academic integrity standards nor of plagiarism in particular. Context. According to the committee, plagiarism is about 'taking credit for another's work' and the context is relevant: in the dissertation the issues stated above were found in a chapter on consulted literature. In addition, the dissertation was published around 30 years ago.