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Code of Conduct: Discussion
© Daniil Prokofyev
HSE is discussing the HSE University Code of Conduct for Research and Teaching Staff. Here are the comments on the text of the Code of Conduct that have been sent via email at ethics@hse.ru
The Code of Conduct is an important document for HSE University, so both employees and students should participate in its discussion. You can send your suggestions and comments via email to ethics@hse.ru.
Deputy Vice Rector, Head of the Laboratory of Sports Studies, Associate Professor at the Department of Higher Mathematics
It seems to me that the statement, ‘HSE University promotes a healthy lifestyle among its students and staff. This means that we try to maintain good physical health and take proper care of the safety and health of staff and learners’ is not well worded, since there are some colleagues (for example, those who are disabled or elderly) for whom it is difficult to stay fit, due to objective reasons.
I believe someone’s physical fitness is their personal business, an area where the university should not interfere. I suggest rephrasing the idea as follows: ‘We care about our own, as well as other staff’s and students’ security and health’.
HSE Life publishes the full text of the code
School of Sociology
‘We shall not permit any action or expression, which may be deemed offensive by others. It is our duty to duly apologize if such acts or utterances have taken place, whether intended or not.
I think that this kind of wording, if taken as a guideline for action, can have a lot of long-term negative consequences, since virtually anything can be considered offensive by anyone. See more in the widely discussed article by Jonathan Haidt (a leading expert in psychology of morals) and Greg Lukianoff.
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities School of History
The words ‘HSE University promotes a healthy lifestyle among its students and staff. This means that we try to maintain good physical health and take proper care of the safety and health of staff and learners’ discriminate against those who do not consider a healthy lifestyle and, furthermore, physical fitness a personal value, which is neither illegal nor harmful to others. Please re-formulate this phrase.
Comments by Aleksei Pleshkov, Director of Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities
Academic Secretary at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer at the HSE School of Psychology
I suggest the following additions:
‘We aim to be respectful and courteous in all of our dealings with staff and learners, including face-to-face meetings and any type of correspondence. Any coarse, derogatory or overtly familiar forms of communication must be avoided.’
It is not permitted to discuss the personal lives of staff and students with colleagues and students or engage in unconstructive criticism or disrespectful statements addressed to colleagues or students, including when they are not present.
‘We will never tolerate any types of intimidation, hostile or aggressive behaviour (e.g., mobbing, bullying, etc.), including on the Internet (cybermobbing, cyberbullying).
I suggest including these small, but important additions in the Code.
Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, HSE University campus in St. Petersburg
I would like to suggest that ‘disability’ be added to the list of categories that cannot serve as the basis for discrimination against potential hires, etc. We could also think about replacing the term ‘gender’ with ‘gender identity’.