Committee D: Ethics Recommendations from 2004 Congress
Committee charge
Committee D is charged with
1) reviewing the progress wrt the recommendations, and
2) identifying any other actions wrt the Recommendations that should be pushed forward, and
3) developing a plan to implement the highest priority items, and
4) planning for a way to represent the progress on the recommendations at the 2008 Congress.
Committee members
CHAIR: William DeGraffenreid (Zone 18), degraff@csus.edu
Phillip Anz-Meador (Zone 16), anzmefda@erau.edu
Zeb Graham (Zone 15), zcgraham@gmail.com
Martin Kamela (Zone 5), mkamela@elon.edu
Lee Sawyer (Zone 10), sawyer@phys.latech.edu
Alexander Sell (Zone 5), sellco2000@yahoo.com
Background Information
SPS 2004 Congress Ethics Recommendations:
1) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a resolution stating that ethics education be integrated into the physics program.
2) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should create/disseminate a set of ethics resources including curricula, case studies, speaker lists.
3) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should expand its efforts to involve alumni and industry in its initiatives to promote career diversity.
4) 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.
5) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS publications should have ethics-based guidelines, including those that recognize students’ roles in publications.
6) As an honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should have a disciplinary procedure for those who violate the standards of the society.
7) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a statement on the importance of achieving diversity in physics.
8) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should expand its general portfolio of programs and resources to include those targeted at groups under-represented in physics.
9) 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.
10) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a request to chapters that chapters educate and inform students about the tenure process that physics faculty undergo.
links and references
Professionalism and Ethics Resources
SPS Statement on Engaging Students in Issues of Professional Conduct
notes from Ethics Recommendations Committee meeting 9/28/07
Summary of the ExCom Fall 2006 minutes
SPS Council Committee Charges
List of Committee Participants
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