It is the duty of students to report violations, which are in turn heard and handled by a student honour committee, responsible for determining guilt or innocence and deciding the penalty.
Robert Faurisson was a professor of French literature at the University of Lyon-2, in France, who had been suspended from his teaching duties after a mob of students protested his denials of the Holocaust.
Getting involved in politics is a Christian duty," Pope Francis told a gathering of students in Rome in June.
This makes it even more important to increase the number of minority professors in academia, as more professors can share the duties of service and mentorship to students of color.
Thus, teachers are tasked with the important duty of aiding in the healthy development of students, as well as being required to provide quality intellectual education.
In Georgia, teachers can be fired for "incompetency, insubordination, willful neglect of duties, immorality, encouraging students to violate the law, failure to secure and maintain necessary educational training and any other good and sufficient cause," according to state law.
Yet there seemed no shortage of students willing to sign up for duty as dreamers.
As well their duty of care for students, teachers also need to look after themselves.
Even worse – according to a new report – they are pursuing a carefree lifestyle and apparently lecturers are shirking from their duty of holding their students' hands!
Equality legislation has also had an impact: since 2002, universities have had a legal duty of care for students with enduring mental illnesses.
Zellick, who was in academia for 30 years in a series of posts ranging from private tutor to vice-chancellor of the University of London, said he was "very much alive" to universities' duty of care to students.
