Conflcit of Interest |  | Student will have to continue... |
|  |  | In making this decision, the faculty member allows her personal interest to influence her professional judgment. Upon realizing that the graduate student will leave the project once he gathers enough data for his dissertation, leaving the faculty member unable to meet her project deadline, negatively impacting the possibility of future funding and her chances for getting tenure, the faculty member decides to extend the amount of data that the graduate student needs to collect and misleads him as to the reason. The course of action taken by the faculty member - extending the student’s research to benefit her own research and her career rather than for purposes related to the graduate student’s research - makes her action unethical.