The many complex challenges posed by learning analytics can best be understood within a framework of structural justice, which focuses on the ways in which the informational, operational, and organizational structures of learning analytics influence students' capacities for self-development and self-determination. This places primary…

Higher education literature has focused narrowly on social responsibility to the exclusion of personal responsibility. This chapter challenges higher education researchers and practitioners to include behaviors related to personal responsibility in their research and educational agendas.

This chapter highlights good practices and lessons learned for infusing personal responsibility--striving for excellence, cultivating academic integrity, and developing competence in ethical and moral reasoning and action--as outcomes of college.

Four-year colleges and universities that espouse teaching as their primary mission bear a responsibility to safeguard the welfare of their students as clients of teaching. This responsibility takes the form of a moral imperative. Faculty members hold considerable autonomy in the professional choices they make in their teaching. As a consequence,…

Academic administration cannot be considered a profession and cannot regulate itself because, unlike the professions, it has no clear, single clientele. External regulation is seen as inevitable in the administration of higher education. (Author/MLW)

A 1966 American Association of University Professors policy statement, which is a general exposition of the responsibilities of professors, is provided. The statement sets forth general standards as a reminder of the variety of obligations assumed by all members of the profession. (Author/MLW)

The importance of strong moral and ethical integrity to the American college presidency is often overlooked. A president who has not stood alone against the bureaucracy and overruled it in favor of a single student, a faculty member, or an unpopular issue is not doing the job. (Author/MSE)

Higher education continues to segregate minority students by letting students force things to happen that are illegal, immoral, and unethical. If there is a special program for minority students on campus, all minority students tend to be identified with the program and individual achievement and motivation are frustrated. (Author/MLW)

The susceptibility of students (in loco parentis), the protected status of higher education regarding academic freedom, and higher education's operation as a public trust are three reasons for the special ethical responsibilities of college and university administrators. Ethical behavior as an extension of legal doctrine is examined. (Author/MLW)

One major responsibility of presidents regarding ethical dilemmas is to understand--and help others on campus understand--the differences in perception that members of the college community have regarding the same facts, especially the differences caused by professional and administrative views of the institution. (Author/MLW)