<p>Does anyone know where I would find an official document on UVA’s website regarding moral and ethical conduct for an instructor? The document would state things like relationships with students are not allowed, etc.</p>
<p>Uh…I have to ask…why haha. Not in offense, just curiosity</p>
<p>TAs and students hook up all the time. Trust me.</p>
<p>It’s not about hooking up… it’s about playing favoritism which consequently leads to unfair grading 
lots of inconsistencies in what he preaches and practices to certain people. </p>
<p>is adding your student on fb during finals a violation btw?</p>
<p>Perhaps here? </p>
<p>[Faculty</a> Policies, Executive Vice President & Provost, University of Virginia](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/provost/policies.html]Faculty”>http://www.virginia.edu/provost/policies.html)</p>
<p>Most TAs don’t accept their friend requests. My French one wrote me a long e-mail apologizing b/c he felt so bad about having to reject my friend request. The day after class over, he added me, it was pretty hilarious actually, I almost rejected him, but then I was like, whatever.</p>
<p>thanks for the link sabaray… but i can’t find anything on personal conflicts or student-teacher relationship policies.</p>
<p>I think that what you are looking for is something that may be spelled out in a high school handbook but is perhaps implied in a collegiate setting? If you look at the section dealing specifically with graduate TAs, the following may apply: </p>
<p>Responsibilities of Teaching Assistants:
Graduate teaching assistants have considerable influence on students’ learning in a course or laboratory. In addition to an obligation to maintain high standards of academic honesty and integrity, graduate teaching assistants should assume the following responsibilities:
GTAs are expected to prepare sufficiently for each class so they can meet, with confidence and resourcefulness, the questions and needs of students.
GTAs are required to hold regularly scheduled office hours outside of class if teaching undergraduate students. Office hours should be conducive to the schedules of undergraduate students.
GTAs may create situations in which their private or personal interests are potentially in opposition to their official responsibilities. A GTA must be sensitive to the potential for conflict of interest situations and act in a manner to minimize the situation’s effects. GTAs with concerns about potential conflicts of interest should confer with their faculty advisor or department chair.</p>
<p>I’d suggest contacting the department head if you have a concern. I believe they would be the appropriate contact.</p>
<p>I’m facebooking you my super awesome response, which starts:
UVA has no such policy. I believe it has something to do with one of Casteen’s former wives being one of his students once upon a time.</p>
<p>The list of academic figues who have had relationships with students is very long. Most try to limit it to grad students but if you are working at a LAC…things can happen. Much more frowned upon today than 30 years ago.</p>
<p>It’s just a “policy” there’s not much that can be done about it. A GTA I’m sure could be fired, though. [Faculty</a> Policies, Executive Vice President & Provost, University of Virginia](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/provost/docs_policies/conflict.html]Faculty”>http://www.virginia.edu/provost/docs_policies/conflict.html)</p>
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<p>What, in the era when women’s colleges were a way to find husbands? (Although UVA was all-male back then, I think.)</p>