Department of Anthropology Conflict of Interest Policy
Faculty, lecturers, and staff shall not initiate or participate in close personal or intimate relationships with students for whom they have a professional responsibility. A close personal relationship is one which is sufficiently close that a reasonable person would believe it to be difficult for faculty, lecturer, or staff to deal with the person objectively. Professional responsibility for a student exists when the faculty, lecturer or staff has direct or indirect administrative, teaching or supervisory responsibility for that student and when that faculty, lecturer or staff is in a position to make decisions affecting the student. Such decisions include employment, admission, grades, assessment, and recommendations. These decisions apply most clearly when the student is being indirectly or directly taught, supervised or evaluated, whether or not those decisions are made on- or off-campus (i.e., this policy applies to fieldwork and other non-classroom activities).
In addition, within the context of their activities in and connected to the Anthropology Department, faculty, lecturers, and staff shall not initiate, or participate in, directly or indirectly, decisions involving those related by blood or marriage, by membership in the same household (including domestic partners), or those with whom they have a close personal or intimate relationship.
