Institutions of higher education are entrusted by society with great resources and commensurately great responsibilities for creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. Higher education faculty and staff play a key role in assuring that high standards of ethical practice attend to the custody and use of these resources. Employees are expected to adhere to legal, moral and professional standards of conduct in the conduct fulfillment of their professional responsibilities. The employee’s personal and professional conduct reflects on his or her institution, the collective profession, and higher education at large. To guide employees in setting and practicing high standards of ethical conduct, Cleveland State Community College has adopted the following code of ethics. Cleveland State embraces the values expressed in this code and advocates their observance by its employees.
An employee of Cleveland State should be characterized by integrity and dignity, and he or she should expect and encourage such conduct by others.
Cleveland State employees, both faculty and staff, should adopt and be faithful to personal values that:
Adapted from the NACUBO Code of Ethics, the GFOA Code of Professional Ethics, and the CCBO Code of Ethics
Cleveland State Community College is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution