Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
BU promotes equal opportunity through a positive, continuing program of specific practices in educational programs and employment designed to ensure the full realization of equal opportunity without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, age, disability, or veteran status.

Academic Freedom
Academic freedom is the freedom to engage in research, scholarship, or other creative work in order to expand knowledge, to publish research findings, to teach and to learn in an atmosphere of unfettered free inquiry and exposition.

Information Security Policy
University Information is a vital asset of the University and as such requires protection from unauthorized access, modification, disclosure, or destruction.

Information Security Guidelines
Guidelines for security administrators, data trustees, and system administrators.

Maintaining Laboratory Records
A guideline for the maintenance and preservation of laboratory and field records so that appropriate and authorized researchers or other individuals may readily access the data (PDF).

Computing Ethics
Thousands of users share the computing facilities at Boston University. These facilities must be used responsibly by everyone, since misuse by even a few individuals has the potential to disrupt University business or the work of others.

Misconduct
All members of the University community are responsible for promoting the highest ethical principles in each academic discipline and for holding members of the community accountable to these principles.

Sexual Harassment
The University is committed to the principle that no employee, student, or applicant for employment or admission should be subject to sexual harassment.

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