Ethics in Higher Education
This term describes the act of using someone else’s work as your own in academic settings.
What is plagiarism or academic dishonesty?
The name given to gifts or favors from any person, corporation, association, or anyone else that is given to an employee to secure favorable treatment or consideration from the recipient.
What is a gratuity or a bribe?
Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect.
What are the USG core values?
You notice a neighbor’s package was mistakenly delivered to your house. Taking it instead of returning it would be considered this.
What is theft or dishonesty?
This practice involves protecting personal information from unauthorized access.
What is data privacy?
This principle involves giving credit to original sources in academic work.
What is proper citation?
This occurs when personal interests could interfere with professional duties.
What is a Conflict of Interest or Conflict of Commitment?
This is one way for employees to confidentially report unethical behavior.
What is the Ethics & Compliance Reporting Hotline?
This is the term for the act of deliberately ignoring unethical practices within the organization to protect oneself or the company.
What is a cover-up? What is fraud?
This term describes the act of breaking into someone else’s computer or computer system.
What is cybercrime or hacking?
These laws limit the use of publications, recordings, software, and other intellectual property without proper licensing.
What are copyright laws?
This term refers to inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature in the workplace that creates a hostile or uncomfortable environment.
What is sexual harassment?
These are additional methods for reporting unethical behavior (but may not be confidential).
What is reporting to The Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX? What is reporting to Human Resources? What is reporting to Office of Legal Affairs?
When using social media, employees are expected to avoid sharing confidential work information. Violating this could breach this law.
What is FERPA or HIPAA?
Looking up information about a student or co-worker when you don’t have a business “need to know” could be a violation of this law.
What is FERPA or HIPAA?
This ethical issue arises when faculty members have relationships with students that could influence academic decisions.
What is a conflict of interest or an amorous relationship?
This term describes the act of reporting unethical or illegal activities within an organization.
What is whistleblowing?
The act of treating someone differently or making their job more difficult because that person reported unethical behavior; this behavior is prohibited by Federal and State law, as well as USG and GS Policy.
What is retaliation?
Consistently following through on promises and meeting deadlines builds this quality in the workplace.
What is trustworthiness? What is reliability? What is accountability?
This principle involves ensuring that digital content is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.
What is digital accessibility?
This policy requires disclosure and approval of certain activities that may compromise an employee's impartiality or ability to complete their work for GS, such as other employment or speaking engagements.
What is Conflict of Interest/Conflict of Commitment Policy?
This term describes the act of favoring friends or relatives in professional settings.
What is nepotism?
Employees are restricted from holding elective offices at these levels.
What are State and Federal elective offices?
This term describes multiple employees working together to cheat or deceive others, usually for personal gain.
What is collusion?
This practice requires a computer user to verify their attempts to login using two different methods.
What is multi-factor authentication or MFA or two-factor authentication?