Academic and Integrity Ethics

Four Codes of Ethics for our School’s Teachers

1. Teaching Ethics: Teachers should lead by example and pay attention to healthy character development for students.
2. Academic ethics: Maintain academic freedom and publish research results based on integrity and virtue.
3. Interpersonal ethics: Teachers should maintain a harmonious relationship between employee and students and respect students’ legitimate rights and interests.
4. Social ethics: Use knowledge to serve the public, promote the dissemination of knowledge, and prevent mismanagement of private interests.

Academic Ethic Review Committee

YunTech has established an Academic Ethics Review Committee to handle academic ethics violation cases. The goal is to create an impartial review process, protect the rights of the accused, and preserve the school’s reputation.

The school had no academic ethics violations in 2021. The school is committed to improving the academic quality of teachers, encouraging promotion through multiple channels, and establishing correct academic ethics for teachers. To avoid any academic ethics issues caused by our teachers due to academic research and promotion, the school has held multi-level promotion briefings for teachers in addition to encouraging teachers to participate in the academic ethics online courses offered by the MOST. The goal is to promote caution for the typical academic ethics errors and issues that should be noted in published works and strengthen the concept of academic ethics for teachers.

The school’s teachers must upload the ethics certificate to the MOST system for future reference when applying for special research projects from the MOST. An ethics study certificate for at least 6 hours is required from project assistants before hiring. In 2021, there were 487 project assistants with ethical certificates, and 100% of the requirements were met. The school also invited the Academic Ethics Committee of National Cheng Kung University or National Chung Cheng University to co-organize research ethics workshops. Since the 2017 academic year, the school has required master’s and doctoral graduate students to take a 6-hour online course on “Academic Ethics Education” offered by the Center for Taiwan Academic Research Ethics Education, Ministry of Education. Those who fail the course shall not be permitted to apply for degree examination.

Anti-Corruption Policy

The Ministry of Education established the Ethics Guidelines for Civil Servants and Teachers of the Ministry of Education and Affiliated Schools to ensure that its affiliated agencies and public school faculties perform their duties with integrity, are fair, impartial and administer affairs according to the law, and contribute to the government’s good image. Public educators must perform their duties impartially according to the law and based on the public’s interest. They shall not abuse their authority, methods, or opportunities to seek improper interests for themselves or a third party.

The relevant personnel regulations are published on the school’s personnel office website (https://aex.yuntech.edu.tw/). This website also publishes a monthly personnel e-newsletter to publicize laws, administrative guidelines, and conflicts of interest (the Sunshine Act area). It has a ethics area for reference by faculty and employee. In 2021, there were no instances of corruption at the school.

Information Security Policy

The center’s goal is to implement appropriate controls to protect the school from internal or external intentional or unintentional threats, provide adequate information safeguards, and ensure the feasibility and effectiveness of information security practices. We offered regular information security regulations, updates, event announcement notifications, and training courses to improve campus information security. We also provided response measures, incident descriptions, corrective improvements, and preventive measures to prevent information security incidents according to the information security incident categories, the potential scope of impact, and loss assessments.

The school has deployed information security and personal data protection seed personnel (hereafter “Seed Personnel”) in various units on campus to implement information security management specifications. They are responsible for “information security and personal data protection operation promotion guidance,” “Email protection social engineering education training and counseling,” and “data security and personal Information incident reporting information center” related tasks. The Information Center provides regular or unscheduled training for Seed Personnel and arranges for them to receive professional license training each year. The information security audit team of the Information Center also schedules an audit plan each academic year to conduct on-site inspections on information security for each unit and improve any supervision defects.

Cyber Security Actions

Provide stable power, uninterruptible power supply, and 24-hour air conditioning and fire protection systems for computer network equipment and servers in the Information Center. Ensure a high-quality operating environment for software and hardware equipment in the computer network room. The information center monitors the health status of major websites, servers, storage devices, and other services using the Nagios continuous system monitoring services and the Splunk system log management tools.

The data related to information security and personal information protection is stored on the “Information Security and Personal Information Protection Website” and “YunTech Science and Technology Cloud Collaboration Website/Information Security Management System (ISMS).” The Personal Information Management System (PIMS) is provided as a reference for colleagues and students on campus and to promote the use of legal software and anti-virus software on campus. The school’s systems have passed the ISO 27001, ISCB Educational Institution Information Security Verification Center’s “Personal Data Management Specification for Education System” verification. The school will also gradually change or increase the scope of verification according to the school’s information security maintenance plan or the current implementation status.

Campus Safety and Health

To prevent occupational accidents and ensure the safety and health of the faculties, employee, and students of the school at workplaces such as laboratories, research laboratories, testing grounds, and practice workshops, we have formulated the “YunTech Safety and Health Management Regulations” according to the Occupational Safety and Health Act. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Act, we have also established the Occupational Safety and Health Committee and the Environmental Safety Technology Center.

The Occupational Safety and Health Committee has 19 members. The committee members include the school’s president, the dean of the College of Engineering, the dean of the School of Design, the Chief of General Affairs, the Chief of Research and Development, the head of the Department of Environmental and Safety and Health, the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering, the director of the Accounting Office, the director of the Personnel Office, the team leader of the Health Education Team, the director of the Environmental Safety Science and Technology Center, the team leader of the Safety and Health Team, and 7 labor representatives. (36.84%)

The school’s safety and health work rules are revised and expanded to match the Occupational Safety and Health Act and its related regulations. Most “employed laborers” are incorporated into the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The code of practice was amended and passed at the 3rd Occupational Safety and Health Committee meeting in 2019 and reported to the Central District Occupational Safety and Health Center of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the Ministry of Labor to complete the registration on September4, 2019. The registration number is B108006043.

The third Wednesday of each semester is set aside for health and safety education and training for new and in-service faculty members. The number of training sessions may be increased as needed. The goal is to create a culture of safety and hygiene through education and publicity promotions, improve faculty and employee health and safety, and strengthen concepts and skills to aid in disaster prevention and resilience. The Environmental Safety Technology Center conducts unscheduled laboratory inspections for each department. It requires audited units to improve audit results, strengthen campus safety and health performance, and maintain security, health, and pollution prevention awareness of colleagues’ and students’ safety, health, and pollution prevention.