Academic Ethics: Problems and Materials on Professional Conduct and Shared Governance

by Neil Hamilton

Overview

This book suggests that the umbrella academic organizations step forward and draft a model code of ethics for the profession of higher education. Further discussion reveals how such attempts become difficult in face of the market's relentless pressure to frame the institution-student relationship in the economic terms of provider and customer. The book also offers an analysis of academic tradition, academic freedom, and the principles of professional conduct and shared governance. Typical problems in academic life are presented, each followed by questions designed to stimulate seminar-type discussion. Appendices contain a proposed code of ethics as well as AAUP statements on the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573563727
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/30/2002
Series:	ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.57(w) x 9.74(h) x 0.92(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

NEIL W. HAMILTON is Professor of Law and Director of the Mentor Program at University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN.

Table of Contents

1 Preface 2 Introduction 3 The American Academic Profession: The Tradition of Academic Freedom and Shared Governance 4 Problems on the Duties of Individual Professors 5 Problems on the Rights of Academic Freedom for Individual Professors 6 Problems on the Duties of the Faculty as a Collegial Body 7 Problems on the Rights in Shared Governance of the Faculty as a Collegial Body 8 Problems on the Rights of Academic Freedom for Students 9 Appendix A: Summary of the Principles of Professional Conduct 10 Appendix B: 1915 AAUP General Declaration of Principles 11 Appendix C: 1940 AAUP Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure 12 Appendix D: 1966 AAUP Statement on Professional Ethics 13 Appendix E: 1066 AAUP Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities 14 Appendix F: 1998 Association of Governing Boards = Statement on Governance 15 Appendix G:1967 Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students 16 Appendix H: 2000 AAUP Statement on Graduate Students 17 Selected Bibliography 18 Index

Editorial Reviews

Neil Hamilton observes that most doctoral programs fail to educate students about academic ethics so that knowledge of it is eroding. Lack of emphasis on ethics in graduate programs leads to skepticism about the necessity of learning about ethics and about how to teach it. Moreover, nihilist philosophies that have gained currency within the academy itself such as Stanley Fishs antifoundationalism contribute to the neglect of ethics education. Neil Hamilton has done the academic community a significant service with his new book on academic ethics....Graduate students, new professors and experienced faculty alike can benefit from Hamilton's thought-provoking analysis of the ethical duties and correlative rights of academics, both as individuals and as a collegial body....[H]amilton's book is a valuable resource to anyone with either a scholarly or practical interest in academic ethics.

Inside Higher Ed

Neil Hamilton observes that most doctoral programs fail to educate students about academic ethics so that knowledge of it is eroding. Lack of emphasis on ethics in graduate programs leads to skepticism about the necessity of learning about ethics and about how to teach it. Moreover, nihilist philosophies that have gained currency within the academy itself such as Stanley Fishs antifoundationalism contribute to the neglect of ethics education. Neil Hamilton has done the academic community a significant service with his new book on academic ethics....Graduate students, new professors and experienced faculty alike can benefit from Hamilton's thought-provoking analysis of the ethical duties and correlative rights of academics, both as individuals and as a collegial body....[H]amilton's book is a valuable resource to anyone with either a scholarly or practical interest in academic ethics.

Inside Higher Ed.