College of Business

STUDENT SUCCESS

» WE DELIVER an impactful educational experience that makes a positive difference in our students’ lives. 

» WE ARE COMMITTED TO experiential learning that produces practical knowledge and professional development in students.

» WE ENABLE a technology-infused, interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that produces team-oriented, competitive, ready-to-work graduates.

INNOVATION  

» WE FOSTER AND SUPPORT innovation in our academic programs, initiatives, processes, student mindset, scholarly endeavors, and service activities.

RESILIENCE

» WE STRIVE for agility, flexibility, creativity, and adaptability in challenging situations.

COLLEGIALITY

» WE SUPPORT AND MAINTAIN a robust collegial environment characterized by mutually respectful interactions and collaborations with high levels of constructive engagement among faculty, staff, students, and stakeholders.  

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION  

» WE ARE COMMITTED to diversity, inclusion, and a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. WE RESPECT a diversity of backgrounds and thought.

ETHICS AND INTEGRITY

» WE FOSTER an organizational culture that encourages ethical and responsible behavior in all stakeholders. 

Teaching
Our faculty are sensitive to the educational needs of our students and strive for excellence in teaching both hard and soft skills and content. The College provides many experiential learning and professional development opportunities both inside and outside the classroom.

We seek to educate business leaders and potential leaders who are capable of making lasting contributions to business and society and who are also skilled in using an interdisciplinary approach to decision making in an increasingly global and technology-dependent business environment.

Intellectual Contributions
Our faculty engage primarily in applied research and scholarly activities that provide insights into business practice. We believe such scholarly activity should be a career-long endeavor of faculty engaged in educating current and future business leaders and that such activity enhances the effectiveness of classroom instruction and external interaction.

Service
Our faculty share their expertise to benefit external constituencies and create opportunities for students to apply their skills and knowledge. We believe these activities and involvement with business and government leaders significantly increase the abilities of faculty to deliver current information in the classroom and that they build important bridges between the academic community and our external constituencies.

We encourage professional and service endeavors that strengthen relationships with the broader academic community — collaborative activities within this University, interaction with other universities, and involvement in professional organizations.

The College of Business
Faculty, administration, staff, and students in the College of Business at Tennessee Technological University are guided by the core values of honesty, personal integrity, respect for others, and business professionalism. To elucidate and underline the importance of these core values, all members of the College of Business at Tennessee Technological University agree to commit themselves to the following code of ethics. By code of ethics we mean a set of principles or values that we believe should govern our actions and behavior in our dealings with each other and the business community. Our code of ethics is meant to provide for mutual respect among the members of the academic community and to assure the success of our College’s academic mission.

Faculty, Administration, and Staff Code of Conduct
As a fundamental part of its mission, the College of Business recognizes the importance of preparing our students to become "ethical business leaders." The same concern for ethics and ethical behavior extends to our faculty, administration, and staff. In particular, the university presumes that "the classroom instructor, by virtue of the University's decision to hire him/her in an instructional capacity, is assumed to be an ethical person dedicated to the maintenance of high professional standards." Our code entails certain minimum obligations. Among those obligations, in accordance with Faculty Handbook guidelines, we expect our faculty, administration, and staff¹ to:

• Accommodate diversity by refraining from discrimination or harassment based on age, ethnicity, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or political belief.

• Conduct classes in a manner that encourages the free flow of ideas between faculty and students, while being consistent with the goals of the class.

• Provide a classroom setting where critical treatment of material that fosters ethical, or normative, thinking about issues is consistent with the goals of the class.

• Maintain integrity and honesty in their personal research and teaching.

• Maintain a professional approach in all relationships with students.

• Practice disclosure in their use of institutional resources and outside institutional activities involving financial or in-kind remuneration.

• Refrain from knowingly making false or malicious statements affecting students, faculty, colleagues, or administration.

• Refrain from falsifying facts relating to his or her academic or professional qualifications.

• Recognize and follow all copyright laws on articles, textbooks, computer software, etc.

• Neither offer nor accept gratuities, gifts, or favors that might impair the professional judgment, damage the reputation, or result in personal gain of the faculty member or others.

• Support students rights to privacy under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act by maintaining the confidentially of academic records and private communications.

Student Code of Conduct
Students will not engage in or condone academic deceit, dishonesty or misrepresentation, such as:

• Receiving or using unauthorized or prohibited information, resources or assistance on an examination or assignment.

• Committing plagiarism (see student handbook) on any examination or assignment.

• Submitting another person’s work, in whole or in part, as the student’s own work.

• Submitting an examination or assignment that the student has previously submitted for credit in another course, without express approval from the professor in each of the courses.

• Damaging or misappropriating any college property or resources, including technology.

Along with others in the College of Business, students are encouraged to monitor suspected violations of the Tennessee Technological University College of Business Student Code of Conduct, as defined herein.

The process for dealing with alleged violations can be found in Tennessee Tech Policy No. 217 (Student Academic Misconduct Policy) found at Policy Central.

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¹Obligations that affect classroom instruction would apply only to those who teach.

Faculty, Administration, and Staff Code of Conduct