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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED213303 AUTHOR: Hadley, Paul E.
TITLE: Ethics in Higher Education. The Third Earl V. Pullias
Lecture in Higher and Postsecondary Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
NOTE: 21 p.; Published by the Pullias Lectureship Endowment
Fund.
AVAILABILITY: P.O. Box 77963, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA 90007.
ABSTRACT: Issues of ethics in higher education, along with a
broad overview on the field of ethics, are considered.
Ethical concerns include: charges of unfair practices in the
recruitment of college students, especially minority
athletes; reducing admission requirements to the extent that
classroom and even graduation standards may deteriorate;
grade inflation; student dishonesty in taking tests and
writing papers; student charges that they are being
neglected by their professors; the development of standards
for freedom of information, sunshine legislation, in
contrast to the right of privacy; and the establishment of
rules to limit the time full-time faculty members can spend
in consultation. Methods or sanctions that have been used to
control these practices include: passing affirmative action
laws in regard to employment; passing laws to provide ramps
to increase access of the disabled to classrooms and
offices; maintaining faculty records; monitoring research on
human subjects; and developing programs of inspection and
control of educational programs and services. In this
process, society has emphasized regulatory sanctions.
Additionally, courses in legal ethics, business ethics, and
medical ethics are being taught. Ethics can be controlled by
contracts providing rules of conduct in teaching, research,
in the allocation of time and effort. Another alternative is
that faculty, students, and administrators can draw up codes
of good practice. It is suggested that a covenant cannot be
imposed: it must evolve out of free association and common
ideals. Concluding remarks for the third annual Pullias
Lecture by Earl V. Pullias are included. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Accessibility-for-Disabled; Admission
Criteria; Affirmative-Action; Educational-Assessment;
Faculty-College-Relationship; Federal-Regulation; Grading-;
Moral-Values; Student-College-Relationship; Student
Recruitment; Teacher-Responsibility
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Accountability-; *Employment-Practices;
*Ethics-; *Higher-Education; *Moral-Issues; *Student
Behavior
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