Code of Professional Ethics:
These codes of professional ethics are formulated to enforce the teachers to abide some specific norms in their behaviour and conduct towards the various stakeholders of the college with an aim to provide direction and guidance according to the ideal of the profession.
- Teachers shall remain within professional boundaries in and outside the college campus and adhere to proper pattern of conduct and demeanor as a member of the teaching community
- Teachers shall express free and unbiased opinions at professional meetings, seminars, conferences etc., towards the contribution of knowledge.
- Teachers shall respect the diversity, maintain fairness and promote equality irrespective of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, age, language or abilities among students, colleagues, guardians etc.
- Teachers shall respect the rights and dignity of the student in expressing her/his opinion; deal justly and impartially with students regardless of their religion, caste, gender, political, economic, social and physical characteristics; recognise the difference in aptitude and capabilities among students and strive to meet their individual needs;
- Teachers shall hold before the students the best scholarly and ethical standards of their discipline. They shall demonstrate respect for students as individuals and adhere to their proper roles as intellectual guides and counsellors.
- Teachers shall make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to ensure that their evaluations of students reflect each student’s true merit.
- Teachers shall respect the confidential nature of the relationship between professor and student. They shall avoid any exploitation, harassment, or discriminatory treatment of students.
- Teachers shall make themselves available to the students even beyond the class hours and help and guide them selflessly.
- Teachers shall help students develop a healthy understanding of India’s national heritage and the inculcate in them the sense of patriotism.
- As colleagues, professors have obligations that derive from common membership in the community of scholars. Professors do not discriminate against or harass colleagues. They respect and defend the free inquiry of associates, even when it leads to findings and conclusions that differ from their own. Professors acknowledge academic debt and strive to be objective in their professional judgment of colleagues. Professors accept their share of faculty responsibilities for the governance of their institution.
- As members of their community, professors have the rights and obligations of other citizens. Professors measure the urgency of these obligations in the light of their responsibilities to their subject, to their students, to their profession, and to their institution. When they speak or act as private persons, they avoid creating the impression of speaking or acting for their college or university. As citizens engaged in a profession that depends upon freedom for its health and integrity, professors have a particular obligation to promote conditions of free inquiry and to further public understanding of academic freedom.