The university's global values are stated in our mission. Groups such as the School of Public Health and the UT-H Conflict Resolution Board have each created value statements to guide their actions. He wondered how to go about countering that impression, if indeed it is widely held. Palmer Beasley noted that the School of Public Health had attempted to communicate its values by reading them aloud at orientation and graduation and by posting them prominently in the school's lobby. Norm Karin noted that the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has a formal course in ethics and principles.
Scholarship is valued the most highly.
Others from the Medical School, including Jeff Katz, noted that the medical faculty adhere to tenets of ethical behavior in their everyday activities. John McMahon noted no expectation of adherence to institutional values in Dental Branch governance processes or in performance evaluations. President Low noted that it would be a mistake to confine the evaluation of values to the evaluation of citizenship, noting the need for values in patient care, research, and teaching. Charles Stiernberg noted that the global institutional values were well carried out at school, department, and division level, but noted that in a hierarchical structure such as ours, values were subtly influence by the people in supervisory roles at every level. Anna Steinberger noted that a general perception of faculty is that teaching is ostensibly valued in the mission statements but is not always rewarded at UT-Houston and that faculty cannot get tenure on teaching alone.