Big Brother?

[Katz, Michael R.]

Dear Comrades:

The following announcement was recently sent to all employees of Middlebury College.

At first I thought it was a joke; alas, it is for real.

Big Brother is watching us.

Michael Katz

EthicsPoint Reporting System

An announcement from Patrick Norton, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer

As members of Middlebury, all of us, regardless of position, share the responsibility to promote a culture of integrity. To help accomplish this goal, we have recently installed a new phone and Internet-based ethics reporting system managed by EthicsPoint.  Serving more than 2,000 organizations world-wide, EthicsPoint is committed to helping organizations like ours by facilitating the reporting and identification of issues that are inconsistent with our policies.

We hope you feel comfortable bringing potential ethical issues or concerns to your supervisor. But we understand that this is not always the case. This new system provides an alternative channel for you to communicate your concerns confidentially and anonymously. We have partnered with EthicsPoint to manage the reporting system for us. They have gone to great lengths to ensure that reports entered in the system are completely confidential.

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