Ethics
Recommendations from the
2004 Sigma Pi Sigma Congress
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Update on Ethics Recommendations--July, 2008
(Voting
totals reflect votes cast by official voting delegates. Each
chapter could send up to two delegates.)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a resolution stating that ethics
education be integrated into the physics program. (70 yes,
15 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should create/disseminate a set of ethics resources including curricula, case studies, speaker lists. (77 yes,
7 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should expand its efforts to involve alumni and
industry in its initiatives to promote career diversity. (47yes,
34 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should assign a committee to investigate existing
professional society and publisher statements and guidelines
regarding ethics, with an eye to endorsing these or modifying
them for our use. (68 yes, 14 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS publications should have ethics-based guidelines,
including those that recognize students’ roles in publications.
(72 yes, 7 no)
- As
an honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should have a disciplinary
procedure for those who violate the standards of the society.
(60 yes, 20 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a statement on the importance of
achieving diversity in physics. (67 yes, 11 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should expand its general portfolio of programs
and resources to include those targeted at groups under-represented
in physics. (73 yes, 8 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a statement recommending that the
tenure and post-tenure review process consider more strongly
the tenure candidate’s impact on student development.
(50 yes, 25 no)
- Sigma
Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a request to chapters that chapters
educate and inform students about the tenure process that
physics faculty undergo. (57 yes, 22 no)
Note:
An 11th recommendation was proposed but failed to get enough
votes for passage: (22 yes, 56 no).
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