Creating the Ethical Academy

A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct and Empowering Change

Tricia Bertram Gallant

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780415874694
• eBook ISBN: 9781136891908
• Topic: Didattica
• Subtopic: Didattica generale

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.

Index

abuse:

of authority 14;

preventing 185, 188

academic:

ethics see ethics, academic;

integrity see integrity, academic;

misconduct see misconduct, academic;

records 53;

selection 48, 52, 54, 56–9;

see also misconduct, academic selection

accountability 94, 115, 118, 126, 183, 191, 204, 209, 212;

measures 49, 210;

mechanisms 209, 210;

movement 34;

pressures 215;

public funds 4;

standards 163

accreditation 14–16, 21, 210;

agencies 183–5, 189;

bodies 193;

European Consortium for 211;

institutional 41;

mills 208;

standards 189–91

Adidas 101

administration 4, 15, 153, 159, 162, 164, 207, 211

admissions:

athletes 101;

competition in 40, 56;

consultants 52–3, 54, 56, 57;

fraud 52–3, 56, 58;

process 5, 48–50, 52–4, 58–9;

process, formal 119–20;

process, shadow 119–25

Advanced Placement (AP) Exams 48, 49, 54–5

American Association of University Professors (AAUP) 185

American Council on Education (ACE) 115–16; 126

anomie theory 66

Asia 15, 17;

Central 15;

Pacific 212; –

Pacific Quality Network Region, 211;

South 16

assessment 4, 34, 64, 191, 210–11;

learning 188;

outcomes 175, 190

Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) 175

Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) 99

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Table of contents

• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• I Opening the Door
• II Understanding Ethical Misconduct in Key Areas of Higher Education
• III Empowering Change: Creating the Ethical Academy
• List of Contributors
• Index