4.7 | Lecturers’ Right and Responsibilities

4.7.1 | Duties and Tasks

Commitment to Teaching Responsibilities

1. Conduct teaching duties and obligations conscientiously. This includes the planning and preparation of all courses, lectures, and tutorials according to the University guidelines. as well as conducting scheduled classes, providing complete information on course requirements, assignments, and projects, and grading fairly;
2. Accord all students respect and appropriate rights as individuals. This involves providing mature professional advice, treating students with courtesy in class, keeping confidential personal information about students unless expected to share under other academic responsibilities and fairness in teaching individuals;
3. Serve as a role model and provide leadership in helping to shape the minds of the students. All Lecturers should strive to set a high standard in all their professional and personal dealings with students;
4. Explore new and innovative methods of presenting content to and evaluating the performance of students. All Lecturers should strive to improve their effectiveness in teaching by motivating students to aspire to academic excellence;
5. Demonstrate accountability for their teaching and performance evaluations and the actions taken

Commitment to Academic Integrity

1. Uphold the academic core values of learning: honesty, respect, fairness, and accountability;
2. Promote the importance of personal and academic honesty;
3. Embrace the belief that all learners -students, lecturers, staff and administrators -will produce their own work, and must give appropriate credit to the work of others;
4. Refuse to participate in fabrication of sources, cheating or unauthorized collaboration in any work submitted within the System;
5. Remain vigilant to any cheating, fabrication, falsification, forgery, plagiarism, or complicity in any ethical violation by others on any university assignment or exercise

Engagement in Professional and Scholarly Activities

1. Promote knowledge in the academic and pedagogic discipline through research, publication and presentation of papers at both local and international conferences and meetings;
2. Keep updated with relevant and current knowledge within the academic field and/or discipline through familiarity with relevant journals, publications and participation in local, regional and/or international societies, meetings and conferences;
3. Openness to others’ opinions both within and outside of one’s own discipline to promote a culture of intellectual openness and tolerance;
4. Exercise and demonstrate respect for freedom of speech when writing and speaking professionally in external forums.
5. Participation in and support of the development of the Study Program and University.
6. Collaborate with colleagues in the contribution of new curricula, and participate in discussion at faculty meetings to provide strategies and solutions to strengthen the educational programs of the University.
7. Give reasonable support to general University-wide activities and events particularly to new student orientation, graduation ceremony, etc.
8. Contribute to Institution-wide committees.
9. Avoid wastage of funds and/or resources entrusted for use within each department.
10. Make every effort to avoid professional and personal behaviors which might cause embarrassment to the University

4.7.2 | Academic Freedom

Every Lecturer is entitled to the freedom to independently or collaboratively carry out all educational activities; contribute to the development and advancement of science, technology, social science, arts, humanities and engineering; and conduct research and community service in accordance with the academic policies and best professional practices.

Academic freedom also covers the right to disseminate the results of research and community service through academic discourse in the form of lectures, seminars, symposia, discussions, and examinations held in the framework of teaching and learning activities.

Professional integrity by a Lecturer includes recognition that the public will judge the profession and the institution by the statements both in public and private life. Therefore, the Lecturer should strive to be accurate, to exercise appropriate restraint, to show respect for the opinions of others, and to avoid creating the impression that s/he speaks or acts for the system when speaking or acting as a private person.