2025Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs
_N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public._
Overview
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: ACLWeb).
Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:
Originally, there was a fourth Committee Procedure subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.