Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3342 - Kent State University › Chapter 3342-6 - Administrative Policy on Awards and Compensation for University Employees › Section 3342-6-17 - University policy regarding faculty code of professional ethics

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 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.