Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
The faculty of the university subscribes to the
principle of the 1940 "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure"
adopted by the American association of university professors. Within the
rationale in the AAUP statement, it is emphasized that academic freedom is
necessary to the mission of the faculty of a university, since it is eminently
in the interest of society that, without fear of retribution, the professor
should be free to conduct research and make public its results and to teach
his/her subject in the classroom. Professional responsibility is a logical
correlative of this freedom.
(B)
This code of
ethics sets forth those responsibilities which as the correlatives of academic
freedom are incumbent every facet of university life, but attempts to treat
those that are most important and common, The spirit of this document as a
whole should be easily applied to any specific situation not
considered.
(C)
Responsibility to students.
(1)
The faculty
members' central responsibility to their students is to attempt to impart a
knowledge and understanding of a field of study to develop in students
appropriate and relevant skills, and to do so in accordance with the best
standards of scholarship and pedagogy in the discipline.
(2)
Faculty members
have a responsibility to their students to entertain all questions relevant to
the subject matter being taught and to discuss such questions, even if
controversial, objectively.
(3)
Faculty members
are responsible for providing instruction in the announced subject matter of
the course, although they are free to interrelate the subject matter of the
course to those contemporary issues that are relevant to the purposes and the
subject matter of the course.
(4)
Faculty members
should guard the classroom against external pressures, including the student's
fear that what they do or say in the honest pursuit of intellectual inquiries
will affect rating within a course, future chances of employment, or later
standing in the community
(5)
Faculty members shall not exploit students for personal
purposes either in or out of the classroom.
(6)
Faculty members
should deal with students justly and impartially, regardless of their physical,
mental, emotional, political, economic, social, racial, or religious
characteristics or participation in extracurricular activities.
(7)
Faculty members
should not do, with or without pay, such academic work as is properly to be
done by the student.
(8)
Faculty members are expected to accept and carry out
faithfully those duties central to the instructional commitment they have with
their students including prompt and regular meeting of classes and student
advising and consultation.
(9)
Faculty members
should strive for a timely, just, and unprejudiced appraisal of all student
work. Faculty members owe students the right of review of their work and grades
given, and in case of serious grievance or dispute, the right of
appeal.
(10)
Faculty members should secure permission and give
credit for the use of original student contributions in their lectures or
publications, in the same manner and degree as for materials from other
sources.
(11)
Faculty members should encourage and protect honest
performance by the student. They should pursue suspected cases of cheating and
plagiarism by students.
(12)
Faculty members should not disclose confidential
information about their students except as required by law or provided for by
university regulations and procedures.
(D)
Responsibility to
university.
(1)
In activities in which faculty members engage outside the
university, it is plainly their responsibility to make it clear, when
circumstances require, that they are acting as individuals and not as
representatives of the university.
(2)
Faculty members
should maintain in strict confidence all departmental or university matters
agreed to be confidential. If any issue or matter is of such a nature that a
faculty member, as a matter of conscience must speak out, this intention should
be stated beforehand to all concerned.
(3)
Faculty members
who seek modification or alteration of policy shall make every reasonable
effort to carry their cases through governance channels.
(E)
Responsibility to profession.
(1)
Faculty members
should seek and state the truth in their discipline as they see it. To this end
they shall continue such studies and research as are necessary to remain
current in their field.
(2)
It is the faculty members' responsibility to guard
their freedom to inquire and to state the results of inquiry in lectures,
publications, or other appropriate modes of expression.
(3)
Faculty members
shall comment in candor and fairness on the work of colleagues when properly
requested through duly constituted academic and faculty agencies and when in
accordance with established policy.
(4)
Faculty members
shall avoid personal attacks on colleagues and disparagement of other
disciplines or programs, although reasoned criticism is recognized as
legitimate.
(5)
Faculty members shall neither practice nor condone
plagiarism in lectures, publications, or other public presentations, nor attach
their name for credit to a paper or publication toward which they have made no
professional contribution.
Replaces: 3342-6-17
