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Date: March 1989 (revised)
STANDARD OF CONDUCT OF EMPLOYEES
I. DEFINITION:
To define an employee’s conduct inside and outside the University.
II. APPLICABLE TO:
All University employees.
III. RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Every state employee shall fulfill conscientiously, according to applicable laws and requirements, the duties of the position conferred upon him or her and shall prove himself or herself in his or her behavior inside and outside the office worth of the esteem which his or her profession requires. In his or her official activity, the state employee shall pursue the common good, and not only be impartial but so act as not to endanger his or her impartiality nor to give occasion for distrust of his or her impartiality.
2. It is the responsibility of the University employees not to engage in any outside business which would in any way interfere with the performance of their regular duties.
3. It is the responsibility of University employees to conduct themselves in a manner so as not to cause scandal or to lose or jeopardize such esteem so that they may be dismissed from University and state service.
