ECE Classroom Community Expectations

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Executive and Continuing Education respect the highest principles of scientific and academic conduct, foster open inquiry, and honor individual rights. Our staff, faculty, and community members are committed to ensuring that your educational experience is valuable, respectful, and safe.

It is important that participants, faculty, and staff understand and agree to the following ECE community expectations:

• We expect all in the community to act with respect and dignity towards all others. Intolerant, disrespectful, or disruptive behavior towards others will not be tolerated and could result in dismissal from the program.
• The faculty, staff, and fellow participants with whom you will work closely in the classroom are professionals, and your relationship and communications with them should be strictly professional.
• Our learning is enhanced by professional experiences. Everyone must trust that confidential information shared during a program will not be shared outside the program, including photos, videos and on social media.
• We expect our community members not to misrepresent their identities or their personal/professional records.
• It is a common practice in the United States that, in an academic setting where people are learning together and from each other, participants address each other and our faculty and staff by their first or given names; this is not intended to be disrespectful or discourteous.
• The School reserves the right to remove any applicant or student from the registration/admissions process and program for engaging in, or having engaged in, conduct that faculty or staff determine violates this code of conduct or otherwise negatively impacts the learning environment. The cancellation policy will be applied in these instances.
• All other Harvard University–wide policies apply.

If you have any questions or need further clarification, please reach out to a member of our program staff.