Adapting the University Ethical Climate, a Necessity in the Pandemic Context

This paper aims to analyze the consequences of the pandemic crisis measures on the educational system, in terms of the university ethical climate, trying to provide solutions for creating and maintaining an optimal climate for learning and character development. The ethical organizational climate is at the core of the ethical decision-making, ethical behavior, and development in the university environment. The university ethical climate reflects the collective moral behaviors, facilitates commitment, respect for ethical norms and integrity of the parties involved in the educational process, leading to the development of an ethical culture of responsibility. In the context of the current pandemic, the educational solutions adopted, although effective in the short term, in the long run can impinge on the basic values the traditional school is built on. An open-door policy is needed more than ever in order to adapt to the new reality generated by the crisis, to keep universities in an area of moral authority, to avoid moral obscurantism and absenteeism, consequences of the evading the responsibility tendency, generated by the online school.