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Title Creating the Ethical Academy : a Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct and Empowering Change
Published Taylor & Francis 2010

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Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- I Opening the Door: The State of Corruption and the Hope of Academic Ethics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Concern with Corruption in Higher Education -- 3 Academic Ethics: A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct and Empowering Change in the Academy -- II Understanding Ethical Misconduct in Key Areas of Higher Education -- 4 Undermining Integrity in Standardized Testing and Admissions: Misconduct in the Academic Selection Process -- 5 Improprieties in Teaching And Learning -- 6 Research Misconduct and Misbehavior -- 7 Ethical Challenges and the Aspirational University: Fund-Raising and Spectator Sports -- 8 Corruption at the Top: Ethical Dilemmas in College and University Governance -- III Empowering Change: Creating the Ethical Academy -- 9 Enhancing Individual Responsibility in Higher Education Embracing: Ethical Theory in Professional Decision-Making Frameworks -- 10 Enacting Transcendental Leadership: Creating and Supporting a More Ethical Campus -- 11 Integrating Ethics Education Across the Education System -- 12 Expanding the Radius of Trust to External Stakeholders: Value Infusions for a More Ethical Academy -- 13 Toward Global Academic Ethics through Accountability Systems -- 14 The Future of the Ethical Academy: Preliminary Thoughts and Suggestions -- list of Contributors -- Index
Summary For those who believe in the promise of higher education to shape a better future, this may be a time of unprecedented despair. Stories of students regularly cheating in their classes, admissions officers bending the rules for VIPs, faculty fudging research data, and presidents plagiarizing seem more rampant than ever before. If those associated with our institutions of higher learning cannot resist ethical corruption, what hope do we have for an ethical society? In this edited volume, higher education experts and scholars tackle the challenge of understanding why ethical misconduct occurs in the academy and how we can address it. The volume editor and contributing authors use a systems framework to analyze ethical challenges in common functional areas (e.g., testing and admissions, teaching and learning, research, fundraising, spectator sports, and governance), highlighting that misconduct is shaped by both individuals and the contexts in which they work, study, and live. The volume argues compellingly for colleges and universities to make ethics a strategic, institutional priority. Higher education researchers, students, and practitioners will find this volume and its application of empirical research, real-life examples, and illustrative case studies to be an inspiring and applicable read
Subject Cheating (Education) -- United States
College administrators -- Professional ethics
Downloading of data -- Ethics
Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects
Plagiarism.
plagiarism.
Cheating (Education)
College administrators -- Professional ethics
Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects
Plagiarism
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Tricia, Bertram Gallant,
ISBN 9780203840481
0203840488
1282929879
9781282929876