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UCF Compliance & Ethics Newsletter

Take the Compliance and Ethics Culture 10 Minute Survey!

Every two years University Compliance, Ethics, and Risk conducts a compliance and ethics culture survey to gauge the overall ethical culture at UCF. The office uses the survey results to identify opportunities for improvements to the program including additional training and awareness. If you have not yet participated in the survey, would you please consider doing it today? The last day to complete the survey will be March 31, 2022. To access the survey, you can click the following link or copy and paste the link into your browser: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a64TPeHxS1C82cC.

Dangerous Dialing

“Dangerous Dialing” is a fictional story about a person involved in a real-life situation. The story helps us to recognize complicated ethical issues and reminds us how important one person’s actions can be in maintaining a fair and honest workplace.

Ethically Speaking: An Interdisciplinary Speaker Series on Contemporary Moral Issues

by Stephen M. Kuebler, D.Phil., UCF Professor of Chemistry and Optics, Founding Associate Director – UCF Center for Ethics

Think about the implications of gene editing, artificial intelligence, and our changing climate. Intersections between technology, values, and communities in our rapidly changing world raise important ethical questions. The UCF Center for Ethics partnered with units across campus to create Ethically Speaking – a series of lectures by nationally renowned researchers, thinkers and leaders who explore contemporary moral issues.

Case Corner

Each edition of the IntegrityStar features an actual investigation conducted by the investigative offices here at UCF (note, however, all names have be changed in an effort to provide confidentiality of the parties involved). In this edition, we turn our focus to two cases that resulted in a positive outcome.

A message fromRhonda L. Bishop

An ethical workplace = a better place to work. Making the connection between our ethical standards contained in the Code of Conduct to everyday workplace challenges helps our employees to take actionable steps to improve their own workplace. Please take a moment to read this edition of the IntegrityStar focused on Ethics. I’d also like to encourage everyone to complete the UCF Compliance and Ethics Culture Survey by clicking on the link in the article, if you haven’t done so already.

Audit Unlocked

by Tina Maier, CPA, CFE, CIG, Associate Director University Audit

During International Fraud Awareness Week (November 14 – 20, 2021), the UCF Board of Trustees approved a university regulation that brings together elements of many existing university regulations and policies aimed at detecting and preventing fraud.

Recognition

In this Recognition section, we’d like to acknowledge an employee within Facilities &Safety who consistently goes beyond her responsibilities to make UCF a more inclusive place to learn and work.

New Policies

Read about the new or updated UCF policies and regulations that were recently approved.

FAQs

In each IntegrityStar edition, we highlight some frequently asked questions. In this edition, we provide questions and answers related to this editions’ article titled, “Dangerous Dialing”…