Ethical and Legal Issues
The College of Education and Health Professions (COEHP) is fully committed to the values listed below in everything we do. All members of the COEHP community are expected to operate with the highest level of integrity, ethical, and professional conduct at all times. Additionally, we adhere to all federal laws, state laws and policies set forth by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. We work to maintain these high ethical standards by staying informed of legal issues that impact our college and the community we serve. As such, our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) committee and our Ethical and Legal Issues Taskforce work together to ensure our college is operating with the most current information.
CSU Values
- Excellence
- Commitment to best practices in teaching and learning, scholarship and creative activity, student engagement, cultural enrichment and campus environment
- Creativity
- The pursuit of distinction through inquiry and innovation, challenging convention and focusing on solutions
- Engagement
- Active civil participation by students, faculty, and staff in the university experience
- Sustainability
- Commitment to behaviors that recognize and respect our environmental context
- Inclusion
- Fostering and promoting a campus that embraces diverse people, ideas, views and practices
- Servant Leadership
- Effective, ethical leadership through empowerment and service
COEHP Values
- Quality
- The highest standard of value used to evaluate academic and professional initiatives, programs, and outcomes
- Respect
- Positive regard for the work, devotion, and professional character of others as possessing inherent value towards the College of Education and Health Professions' mission
- Integrity
- The consistent presentation of moral, ethical, and character traits reflective of authentic interactions.
- Compassion
- Awareness, understanding, and an interest in the correction or resolution of another's distress
- Communication
- The process of sharing relevant information in a timely, transparent, and effective manner to ensure mutual understanding
- Collaboration
- The intentional act of working together with other professionals for the purpose of achieving an academically or professionally relevant outcome
- Innovation
- The constructive improvement and development of a concept, practice, or production that can be considered new or comparatively significant in its difference from relative precedence
