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The
University of Minnesota has a
"Code of Conduct" that applies to all University
of Minnesota faculty, students, and staff. In addition to this code of
conduct, the Digital Technology Center has a set of Ethical Guidelines that
enumerates what constitutes unethical behavior and specifies the DTC's
policies regarding harassment. These guidelines are as follows:
The facilities and resources of the Digital Technology Center are provided to
support the research and scholarship of our principal investigators and their
coworkers and students. The productive functioning of the systems and
processes involved depends in part upon the cooperation of all users and
participants. Any activities involving the computers, networks, printing
devices, or other support facilities which disrupts their intended use or
any activities that interfere with fair peer review or other administrative
decisions is harmful to the Digital Technology Center and to the community
of researchers and scholars. Intentional participation in such disruptive
activities or negligence that leads to such disruption is unethical and will
be considered grounds for disciplinary and legal actions and for restricting
or prohibiting future access to the facilities and resources by the person or
persons involved.
Such unethical behavior includes but is not limited
to:
| a) |
disruption of networks; |
| b) |
unauthorized usage or alteration of
computers, computer systems, the computer network, software, programs,
or data; |
| c) |
unauthorized alteration or damage to computer
or software documentation; |
| d) |
causing resources to be wasted, including
time of personnel, computer cycles, storage capacity, communications
bandwidth, manuals, books, library materials, supplies, duplication,
and printing resources, whether directly wasted by the user or wasted
by responsible system people for detection, control, and eradication
of infections; |
| e) |
illegal copying of software, music and such,
or running servers for the purpose of illegal distribution of software,
music and such;
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| f) |
compromised integrity of security systems,
computer-based information, or the privacy of individuals; |
| g) |
any attempt to sabotage the work of another
person or any action which deprives another person of access to research
opportunities or facilities that should have been available to that
person; |
| h) |
threats of disruptive behavior against
persons, procedures, or facilities; |
| i) |
posting obscene or other inappropriate
material on the Internet. |
| j) |
fabrication, falsification, misrepresentation,
misappropriation, or plagiarism of research results or research
proposals; |
| k) |
conduct that corrupts the scientific
record; |
| l) |
failure to report conflict of interest; |
| m) |
biased peer review or interference with a fair
peer review by others. |
Maintaining security is every user's responsibility.
Users should keep passwords confidential.
All Digital Technology Center researchers are encouraged to adopt
cooperative attitudes towards research and scholarship in their own
work and to encourage these attitudes in their coworkers.
The Digital Technology Center strives, as do other departments within the
University of Minnesota, to create and maintain a harassment-free workplace
that is respectful to all persons coming into contact with the Digital
technology Center. To this end, the Digital Technology Center prohibits
and will not tolerate offensive and aggressive behavior in the workplace
it provides to its faculty, researchers, and staff. The DTC defines
offensive and aggressive behavior as follows:
Offensive behavior is defined by the Digital Technology Center as action or
conduct that has the purpose of effect of interfering with any
person’s work, academic or professional performance. Offensive
behavior includes, but is not limited to, abusive language, verbal
aggression, which includes defiance, discriminatory remarks, derogatory
and disparaging comments, bullying, combativeness, put-downs, threats,
and swearing and profane speech. Physical aggression is defined by the
Institute to include, but is not limited to physically intimidating body
language, interfering with the free movement of another person, hostility,
overt or otherwise and unwelcome physical conduct of a sexual nature or
otherwise.
In addition, the DTC does not tolerate sexual harassment in any form.
The University of Minnesota defines sexual harassment as:
"Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other
verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment
when (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly
a term or condition of an individual's employment or academic advancement,
(2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as
the basis for employment decisions or academic decisions affecting such
individual, (3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably
interfering with an individual's work or academic performance or creating
an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working or academic
environment."
If a DTC researcher or staff member feels that an incident of sexual
harassment has occurred, they should report it to their PI or supervisor
or Ann Nordling, assistant director for Human Resources.
This information is available in alternative formats upon request by
individuals with disabilities. Please send email to alt-format@msi.umn.edu.
reviewed 11/6/02
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