Creating the Ethical Academy: A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct and Empowering Change

Creating the Ethical Academy: A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct and Empowering Change

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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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415874687
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 378.014
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 227
Weight: 600g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 20mm