The University of Montenegro, i.e. the Ethics Committee and the Social Sciences Commission it formed, have not been able to determine for six months whether the director of the Institute of History, Radenko Šćekić, violated the rules of academic integrity, the Center for Civic Education (CGO) announced.
This, they state, stems from the letter of the Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Božidar Popović, dated June 21, which arrived at the address of that NGO on July 2, with an additional explanation that the deadline for the Commission's decision is being extended until September 25.
"CGO reminds that Popović previously claimed that UCG does not have software that recognizes the Cyrillic alphabet, asking CGO to retype Šćekić's work into Latin, which was denied by vice-chancellor Veselin Mićanović. Now Popović states that the Commission cannot within the original legal deadline ( which was until June 25), determine whether Šćekić plagiarized or whether Wikipedia and similar open sites, as well as authors who published texts before his work, plagiarized from him!?", the announcement states.
They asked "why UCG is protecting Šćekić".
"This is another inept attempt by the management of the UCG to close this case without a professional approach in dealing with the initiative that the CGO submitted, at the end of December 2023, with material indicating that Šćekić had plagiarized and thereby violated the Code of Ethics of the UCG, as well as with the request that until that issue is clarified, Šćekić's election to the position of the director of the Historical Institute is suspended. doubts about their academic integrity, as well as that the Ethics Committee invests more effort to 'cover up' such cases than to protect the reputation of UCG by promptly prosecuting them", it is concluded.
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