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Here, Professor Markie contributes to the expanding discussion on the ethics of college teaching. He begins by examining the obligations of individual professors as to how and what to teach. Other issues addressed include academic paternalism, grading, and conflict between scholarship and teaching.
In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors.
Unionization in the Academy presents an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive treatment of academic unions-their history, purpose, and the conflicts they cause.
This text argues that academic administration is different for administration or managing in business because of the special character of institutions of higher learning. The author claims that academic administration is a calling that assists institutions to carry out their mission.
Ethics and College Sports is a careful analysis of the root problems in intercollegiate athletics in American universities. It examines the prevalent myths that are regularly used to justify the inclusion of intercollegiate athletics, and all of the abuses and scandals it has brought to university campuses, from a moral perspective.
Colleges and universities have largely abandoned their traditional stance in loco parentis, as moral guardians over student life, and instead seek to promote toleration while preventing conflict. In doing so, argues David A. Hoekema, they fail to provide an atmosphere conducive to the attainment of the kind of responsible independence that such goals presuppose.
In the wake of court rulings that have forced university administrators to reevaluate affirmative action policies, this balanced, thoughtful book examines three typical defenses of those policies: that affirmative action compensates for past discrimination; that it provides role models and ensures diversity; and that it corrects for systemic bias against women and racial minorities.
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