Accreditation and Ethics

For example, for Student Outcome (4) of the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC), a part of ABET accreditation standards for computer science programs, states that “the Graduates of the program will have an ability to: Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles.” Other institutions may also include ethics training as part of their program or institutional goals (e.g. if they want to follow the ACM/IEEE CS curriculum guidelines). These institutions would also need to assess learning of ethical topics by their regional accreditor, such as the Middle States Commission on Higher Education or the Higher Learning Commission. Because ABET is more general, ABET will be used as an example in this section.