On the 18th of December 2008, the Senate Board of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University adopted a new Code of Ethics, which includes a few important changes in contrast to the previous version.
The new Code of Ethics strictly forbids the employment of new staff who are related up to the fourth degree of kinship to members of the UAIC academic community. PhD graduates and researches will be employed in didactic and research positions only after completion of an internship or work stage in another academic institution in Romania or abroad, considered to be of equal educational and scientific importance.
The new Code of Ethics was approved (with 50 ayes and one nay) by the Senate Board of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University.
Another rule of the new Code of Ethics stipulates that the members of the University and faculties boards should not exert any political activity during their mandates.
„We needed an ethical Constitution, adopted unanimously, which could protect the university from any implications and interests other than the academic ones. The debate on the moral degradation of society is very popular, but nobody is willing to take action inside one’s own institution. As the oldest university in Romania, we wanted to draw the attention upon this issue and start with our own institution”, Professor Vasile IŞAN mentioned, the Rector of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University.
The Code of Ethics aims at eliminating conflicts of interests, overcoming tense situations, preventing and fighting against any form of corruption and fraud and protecting the academic community members against abuses, denigration, calumny and revenge. The Code guarantees respect for human rights and academic decency and penalizes plagiarism and sexual harassment.
The goal of the Code of Ethics of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is to sustain and continuously develop an environment of cooperation, mutual respect, collegiality, politeness, trust, discretion and solidarity within the university.
The Code of Ethics was first adopted in 2006.
