Advocacy or Lobbying Days: Faculty or staff planning to attend such meetings should consult with the Office of Government Relations staff to determine if attendance would constitute lobbying.

Petitions and Letter-Writing Campaigns: Only the President or his designee may sign on behalf of Kentucky State University.

Expert Testimony: Kentucky State University encourages its faculty and staff to participate in government and the legislative process. Personal or professional views should carry a disclaimer that such views do not represent Kentucky State University.

Contacts with members of the executive branch, including administrative agencies regarding government regulations, policy positions, or executive orders, must be reported in advance of such contacts to the Office of Government Relations. Contacts by faculty or staff members regarding the execution or administration of grants or contracts are excluded from this requirement.

As a private citizen, you are free to lobby the federal government on any issue of interest to you. If you reference your place of employment, you should state explicitly that you are not representing KSU and that your views are not those of the university. This must be done do on your own time, and you may not use university resources to do so. Use of your university e-mail account or telephone to make such a lobbying contact is prohibited.

The University has established formal policies and procedures for dealing with research misconduct in consonance with NIH and NSF guidelines. Under these policies, misconduct in research encompasses but is not limited to: fabrication, falsification, keeping poor research records, demanding underserved authorship on papers by junior associates, sexual harassment, and violations of IRB rules governing human subjects or animal use.

Excluded from this definition are honest errors, or honest difference in the interpretations or judgments of data.

The process of handling misconduct matters normally consists of three (3) principal phases: Inquiry, Investigation, and Disposition of Findings.

All cases of alleged or suspected misconduct should be reported in confidence within 60 days to the ORSP and the Vice President of Academic Affairs, who has the responsibility for initiating appropriate action(s). In cases judged to have merit, every effort will be made to conclude administrative proceedings within 120 days of such reports.