University as institutions of higher learning have their core values. These values are what people judge to be right and acceptable. They are moral, ethical and professional attributes of character for the university. Lecturers, they are central ingredient guidelines to teaching profession. Values therefore determine what is right and what is wrong. But, doing what is right or wrong is what is referred to as Ethics. That is, to behave ethically in a manner consistent with what is right or moral. But how does one know what to be right means? Right or wrong are not mere individually initiated principles. They are responsible to what a society has defined and regulated to be ethical or unethical behavior. Sexual harassment is one of the unethical conducts that a lecturer can conduct at a university. Sexual harassment is defined as any kind of sexual behavior that is welcome and/or inappropriate for the work place" (Cornell). This paper discusses the unethical behavior of a lecturer to students focusing on sexual harassment as unethical conduct at a university and how the principles and the ethical theories are being applied in this circumstance.
Why do lecturers sexually harass students? .
There are several reasons to why lecturers sexually harass students at university institutions and some of them include the following:.
1. Sexual Relationships Between Lecturers and Students.
Some lecturers solicit sexual favors from some female students in order for them to gain diverse favors. These may include; leaking examination questions to potential female students, giving them higher grades to improve their degree classifications or even allocating marks to female students who have not actually sat for the said paper. Sadiq Isah Radda (2009). The lecturer could frustrate such an intelligent student by failing her in the exams unless the student gives in and offers herself for sex. For example if a lecturer says ,will give a student an A, if he/she go out with me or will fail you in this class, if you don't have sex with me".