No. No single event or issue has prompted this change. We are seeing, however, a need to establish and communicate standards and expectations at various levels of participation in the Academy, especially in the areas of publications and research, and especially as the Academy grows in size. When issues have arisen in the past they have been handled in a fair but somewhat ad hoc manner. The revised Code and the procedures that support it now allow for ethics concerns to be handled systematically and in a way that is more consistent and procedurally just.
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