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Please contact CUBoardofRegents@cu.edu regarding public comment.
RECOMMENDATION FROM:
Chancellors Elliman and Marks.
STATEMENT OF INFORMATION:
The Board of Regents received a recommendation from Chancellors Don Elliman and Michelle Marks that the Board of Regents revoke a PhD received by Michael Regner in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus.
Pursuant to Article 4.B, Laws of the Regents, “[o]nly the Board of Regents has the right to revoke a degree.” Regent Policy 4.B.6 provides further that, “[u]pon recommendation of the faculty and the chancellor, the Board of Regents may revoke a degree if it is discovered that degree requirements were not satisfied due to academic misconduct or administrative error.” Pursuant to Regent Policy 4.B.6, the procedures for revoking a degree shall be consistent with the corresponding Administrative Policy Statement 1039, Degree Revocation.That policy defines “Academic Misconduct” to include research misconduct that would have resulted in a failure to meet graduation requirements if discovered prior to awarding the degree.
The Board of Regents has reviewed the underlying reports completed by the campus authorities, including faculty representatives and the Chancellors and Executive Vice Chancellors for Academic and Student Affairs. Dr. Regner has not responded to the Regent’s offer to provide a response.
The Board of Regents finds that Dr. Regner was given adequate notice of the allegations against him, that he was provided an adequate opportunity to contest the allegations against him during the campus investigative process, and that he received an adequate opportunity to respond to the recommended revocation of his degree.
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