However, conflicts can arise between the teaching function and scholarly or creative functions. This procedure statement is intended to avoid those conflicts and promote mutual interdependence among the roles of the faculty member. A faculty member who fails to teach effectively should not expect to be retained by the University.
Teaching is also an important consideration in the awarding of tenure, promotion, and merit raises.
Faculty members should not sacrifice the quality of their teaching in favor of research and creative activity but should recognize that they are expected to be more than effective teachers. Because scholarly activity augments teaching, faculty members are encouraged to participate in meetings,conventions and other activities that promote scholarship and creative work, even when participation requires authorized temporary absence from classes, and they are also expected to share the results of their scholarship through publications and creative activities. To plagiarize is to present as one's own the words, ideas, creative efforts or scholarship of another person. The ethical and legal prohibitions against plagiarism apply to an instructor's use of the efforts of and research assistants. This PPS has been approved by the reviewer listed below and represents SWT's Division of Academic Affairs policy and procedure from the date of this document until superseded.