Know the Code – Standard 1

Provide quality education, research, business interactions, healthcare, and other services

The University is committed to providing outstanding, high-quality services to our students, faculty, staff, families, visitors, patients, business partners, colleagues, affiliates, and the community, whether those services are provided through teaching, research, business interactions, or other services. In performing duties, UA community members are expected to:

• Act with high ethical and professional standards of conduct;
• Be honest in performing one’s duties, with no exceptions;
• Ask questions and request assistance when information is needed to properly perform one’s
  duties;
• Be personally accountable for one’s actions and admit mistakes when they occur;
• Be aware of the University’s obligations towards all stakeholders;
• Conscientiously fulfill obligations towards all stakeholders; and
• Communicate to others ethical standards of conduct and responsibilities under this Code of Ethical Conduct through instruction and example.

UA community members are not to:

•  Fabricate information;
• Change or knowingly omit information to misrepresent events, circumstances, results, or
  outcomes in relevant records; or
• Take credit for another’s work or work product as one’s own without permission.

With respect to teaching and research, UA community members are expected to:

• Promote academic freedom, including the freedom to discuss all relevant matters in the classroom and to explore all avenues of scholarship, research, and creative expression;
• Propose, conduct, and report research with integrity and honesty;
• Protect people and humanely treat animals involved in teaching or research;
• Undertake human subjects research only in accordance with approved protocols;
• Learn, follow, and demonstrate accountability for meeting requirements of regulatory bodies, sponsors, and partners;
• Faithfully transmit research findings;
• Protect rights to individual, UA, and third-party intellectual property;
• Ensure originality of one’s work and provide credit for the ideas of others upon which work
  is built;
• Be responsible for the accuracy and fairness of information reported and/or published; and
• Fairly assign authorship credit on the basis of significant contributions.