UCF Compliance & Ethics Newsletter

Workplace conflict wears many faces and is bound to occur in every workplace. Learning and applying some conflict resolution communication strategies can help you to resolve conflict before it becomes too big to handle. This article provides tips to identify and resolve conflicts within the workplace.

The law and university policy prohibit harassment or discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or non-religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, genetic information, marital status, political affiliations, veteran’s status, or disability. But small, seemingly harmless actions can add up to creating a situation that could be considered hostile. This article discusses our responsibility to recognize harassment in all its subtle forms whenever it occurs, and steps to take to prevent it.

Each calendar year, University Compliance, Ethics, and Risk prepares and issues the UCF IntegrityLine annual report. During the 2020 calendar year, the UCF IntegrityLine received a total of 608 reports, a significant increase (223%) from the 188 reports submitted in 2019. This article features a summary of the 2020 UCF IntegrityLine annual report.

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 a case involving allegations of offensive and inappropriate communications and potential discrimination that was investigated jointly by University Compliance, Ethics, and Risk and the Office of Institutional Equity.