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Academic Ethics

Name: Academic Ethics
Author: Neil W. Hamilton
ISBN: 9781573563727

by Neil W. Hamilton

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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.

Synopsis

Academic professionals are expected to restrain self-interest, promote the ideals of public service, and maintain high standards of performance, while society grants the profession autonomy to regulate itself through peer review. Hamilton conveys the need for ethical leadership from within the peer collegium—leadership that will foster a culture of high aspiration and peer review.

About the Author, Neil W. Hamilton

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

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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.