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| Faculty members have a responsibility to nourish a climate of intellectual growth, foster curiosity, advance knowledge, mentor, and provide outstanding and innovative learning experiences. | University of Maryland College Park Mission Statement |
| Faculty members enjoy the rights that academic freedom affords them, and therefore are expected to embrace the responsibilities that academic freedom carries in meeting their instructional, research, creative activities, service, and public engagement pursuits. | |
| As stewards of the University and their academic units, faculty members are expected to participate actively in their units, engage in shared governance as appropriate, and remain informed of relevant unit, UMD, and USM policies and procedures. |
Faculty members are responsible for cultivating a respectful and inclusive instructional and work environment.
Faculty members are expected to establish and maintain a safe work environment that is free of discrimination and harassment, engage in civil behavior, and treat everyone including colleagues, students, staff, administrators, and others, with respect, courtesy, and dignity. This expectation applies whenever a faculty member is engaged in professional activities on and off campus (e.g., at conferences, research centers, other institutions, etc.) and all forms of communication (e.g., email, social media) related to the faculty member’s UMD affiliation. Faculty members are expected to respond appropriately to misconduct on the part of others within the UMD community.
Faculty members are expected to model and exhibit professional conduct.
The University is a professional work environment and as such faculty are expected to engage in professional behavior in conducting their activities, such as timely and professional communication with students, colleagues, staff and administrators; timely completion of assigned workload; and respectful and open deliberation and discourse without reprisal or retaliation.
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| Faculty members are expected to fulfill and meet their essential duties of research, creative activities, instruction, and service. | |
Faculty members are responsible for cultivating a respectful and inclusive instructional and work environment. Faculty members are expected to establish and maintain a safe work environment that is free of discrimination and harassment, engage in civil behavior, and treat everyone including colleagues, students, staff, administrators, and others, with respect, courtesy, and dignity. This expectation applies whenever a faculty member is engaged in professional activities on and off campus (e.g., at conferences, research centers, other institutions, etc.) and all forms of communication (e.g., email, social media) related to the faculty member’s UMD affiliation. Faculty members are expected to respond appropriately to misconduct on the part of others within the UMD community. | |
Faculty members are expected to model and exhibit professional conduct. The University is a professional work environment and as such faculty are expected to engage in professional behavior in conducting their activities, such as timely and professional communication with students, colleagues, staff and administrators; timely completion of assigned workload; and respectful and open deliberation and discourse without reprisal or retaliation. |
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Faculty members are expected to engage responsibly in their instructional, research, and service activities and assignments.
Faculty members are expected to avoid any conflicts of interest and/or commitment; to ensure compliance with any responsible conduct of research requirements (e.g., research restrictions, export controls, intellectual property, lab safety, animal and/or human subjects protocols, or other requirements); create and sustain a classroom environment conducive for optimal learning; and to ensure the timely dispatch of required deliverables (e.g., submission of grades, annual Outside Professional Activities reporting).
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| Faculty members are expected to engage in their essential duties (research, scholarship, creative activities, instruction, and service) with the highest standards of integrity, responsibility, excellence, and within the accepted practices and norms of their field(s) and profession(s). |
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Faculty members are expected to engage responsibly in their instructional, research, and service activities and assignments. Faculty members are expected to avoid any conflicts of interest and/or commitment; to ensure compliance with any responsible conduct of research requirements (e.g., research restrictions, export controls, intellectual property, lab safety, animal and/or human subjects protocols, or other requirements); create and sustain a classroom environment conducive for optimal learning; and to ensure the timely dispatch of required deliverables (e.g., submission of grades, annual Outside Professional Activities reporting). |
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| Faculty members are expected to participate in and comply with all review processes (e.g., annual, promotion and tenure, PTK promotion, permanent status, merit, post-tenure) as required per USM, UMD, College, and Unit policies. | |
| Faculty members are expected to maintain confidentiality of procedures, proceedings, personnel matters, student records, and other processes that depend on confidentiality. |