Faculty members in the Maricopa County Community College District don’t want Big Brother looking over their shoulders — or testing their workplace ethics, at least.

After news reports last year described questionable conduct at the colleges, the district’s governing board decided to require employees to answer online sets of questions about managing class rosters, handling cash, and dealing with various workplace conflicts of interest.

But the district’s Faculty Association has advised the full-time professors it represents not to fill out the questionnaires, according to the East Valley Tribune, a local newspaper. The president of the Faculty Association told the paper that, while the professors support the ethics rules, they object to answering a bunch of “vague” questions about their conduct.

Speaking of vague, the conflict is vaguely reminiscent of a dustup last year in which professors at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale were notified by the state that they could face disciplinary action for taking a mandatory online ethics test too quickly. They have since sued to block their punishment. —John Gravois