Statement of Faculty Responsibility
To preserve academic honesty at Johns Hopkins, faculty
members must treat ethics issues seriously. Faculty members,
whether full-time, part-time, or adjunct, should follow the
policies and procedures outlined in this Code of Responsibility.
Instructors are required to handle violations of academic ethics
fairly and consistently according to the procedures in this code.
All suspicions of academic misconduct, no matter how minor, must
be investigated, and all faculty members in the Advanced Academic
Programs are required to report any student ethical misconduct to
the Associate Chair of their program. Such reports are necessary to
determine whether the student involved has previous infractions.
Even in cases where the Ethics Committee is called, the instructor
will be consulted and involved.
- Faculty must uphold the policies and procedures established by the
Advanced Academic Programs and clearly communicate to their students
the university's principles of academic honesty and integrity.
- Faculty should specify the basic rules and procedures in all courses
for all papers, course work, examinations, or other academic exercises.
Failure to do so creates confusion and unnecessary temptation among students.
- Faculty should exercise reasonable caution while writing, transporting,
and administering examinations and other graded work. An instructor should not
reuse exams or assignments unless these materials are accessible to all students.
The system for accepting and returning assignments outside of class must be secure.
- Faculty are responsible for handling cases of academic misconduct in a timely
fashion while also protecting the privacy of students--those accused of committing
offenses as well as those reporting offenses. The name of any student under
investigation or who has been penalized for academic misconduct should not be
disclosed except to those involved in the investigation.
- Faculty responsibility for ethics cases may extend beyond the normal time
frame of a course to include incidents that come to light later. For example,
materials from one course may be submitted in a later course and found to be
ethically suspect. In such cases, the earlier instructor may need to provide
information for an ethics case.
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