Distinguishes three dimensions of integrity: guidance, priority, and correctness. Focuses on the meaning of ethical integrity in postsecondary education and relates ethical principles to educational mission. Describes the hazards of the rhetoric of academic excellence, deference, and incivility. (SK)

Invites college professors to look at curiosity as an operative, intellectual virtue giving impetus to the moral lives of students. Addresses the objection that professors are simply too specialized in their professional content areas to help students develop virtue, asserting that curiosity well fostered promotes a set of other moral virtues,…

Describes how the board of trustees of Gardner-Webb University backed its president, who had ordered an athlete's grade changed, and demoted two administrators who had criticized him. (EV)

If accreditation is to fulfill its purposes of quality assessment and quality enhancement, its processes must succeed in evaluating institutional or program performance on stated objectives, and in motivating continuous planning for improvement. (MLW)

Academic and scientific misconduct is coming to public attention. Issues to be resolved include definitions of misconduct, provision for anonymity, role of whistleblowers, burden of proof, statute of limitations, due process, nature and application of sanctions, and potential for rehabilitation. (SK)

Examines the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy's Code of Ethics to explore ways in which marriage and family therapists can provide services within the framework of existing ethical principles and standards for accountability and professionalism to families with an adolescent child experiencing same-sex attraction. (Author/MKA)

Describes the rationale for a code of ethics and integrity in human resource development (HRD). Outlines the Academy of Human Resource Development's standards. Reviews ethical issues faced by the HRD profession. (SK)

Twenty-nine consultant-consultee dyads completed traditional problem identification and problem analysis interviews. Results indicate that the mean integrity of a monitoring system based on teacher self-report was 54%. Average use of intervention stimulus products was 62%. Teachers implemented the treatment as planned 4% of the time. Reduction of…

A person is ethical or moral in doing an act if the individual acted freely; acted according to his or her duty, not for self-interest; and actively performed an ethical act. Lists the qualities of a leader from an ethical perspective. (MLF)

Most faculty and administrators rate academic dishonesty a high crime, fatal to education. What cheating shows that merits strong opposition is a student's pride in deceptively "getting over" on professors and "the system," even where both are recognized as fair. This affection for injustice and casual disregard for honest dealings must be trained…

The purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which behavioral intervention studies conducted with children diagnosed with autism operationally defined the independent variables (IVs) and evaluated treatment integrity (TI). The study replicated the criteria from Gresham, Gansle, and Noell (1993) and focused exclusively on research studies…

In this article, the authors state that the presidents and deans, with the cooperation of the professors, are responsible for the faculty and for the curriculum as a whole. The faculty work within organizations, and every organizational policy and practice, many outside the purview of faculty, has at least potential impact, either positive or…

The late John Wilson has long been a champion of education as a human undertaking with an integrity of its own, as distinct from one that is essentially subordinate to extrinsic interests and influences (e.g. religious, political, commercial). He has also been a fearless critic of forms of thinking that he regarded as failing to articulate…

Most people resist learning to some extent or another, so it is not surprising that students do as well. Like many who spend time in the classroom, the resistance the author encountered in students has been a source of frustration. The author realizes how most students harbor negative feelings towards the concept of leadership and feminism. In…

Previous literature discussing and exemplifying the teaching of political geography has emphasized the material to be disseminated. Building upon those contributions, this paper offers a means of connecting student, teacher, and subject matter. Using the perspective of Parker Palmer, as illustrated in his book "The Courage to Teach," it is…