{"id":1054,"date":"2007-01-23T07:27:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/23\/the-wheels-of-ethics-grind-slo\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T07:27:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:27:33","slug":"the-wheels-of-ethics-grind-slo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/23\/the-wheels-of-ethics-grind-slo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wheels of Ethics Grind Slowly… Or Else"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> has a report on a new frontier in administrative idiocy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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After passing a new online test on ethics required of all state employees, [a] tenured professor in the English department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale received a notice from his university ethics officer and from the state inspector general that he was not in compliance with state ethics regulations, a failure that state officials said could result in punishment that included dismissal. The reason? He had completed the test too quickly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, that’s right. Professors were asked to read a bunch of material on ethics training, and then take an online test. If they completed the multiple-choice test in less than ten minutes, they were presumed to have cheated, and held to be in violation of the regulation.<\/p>\n

Truly, the mind boggles.<\/p>\n

The professors talked about in the article have retained lawyers, and are threatening to sue the state and the university for being a bunch of utter morons. Well, ok, something more legal-sounding than that, but that’s the basic idea.<\/p>\n

(This was discussed recently on some blog or another, but I can’t for the life of me remember where. My first reaction was “Oh, that can’t be true– there must be something else going on,” but the Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> piece describes exactly the same idiotic procedure mentioned in the blog post. I’m sorry I doubted you, whoever you were.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inside Higher Ed has a report on a new frontier in administrative idiocy: After passing a new online test on ethics required of all state employees, [a] tenured professor in the English department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale received a notice from his university ethics officer and from the state inspector general that he… Continue reading The Wheels of Ethics Grind Slowly… Or Else<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}