Overview
- All contributors have a rare combination of experience in academic administration as well as formal academic background in ethics and ethics education enabling them to focus knowledgeably on the ethical issues which academic administrators face
- The book answers questions such as:
- When a donor calls the president and requests a favor, what are the implications to the campus, internally and externally?
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is an invitation to academic administrators, at every level, to engage in reflection on the ethical dimensions of their working lives. Academics are very good at reflecting on the ethical issues in other professions but not so interested in reflecting on those in their own, including those faced by faculty and administrators. Yet it is a topic of great importance. Academic institutions are value-driven; hence virtually every decision made by an academic administrator has an ethical component with implications for students, faculty, the institution, and the broader community. Despite this, they receive little systematic preparation for this aspect of their professional lives when they take up administrative posts, especially when compared to, say, medical or legal training.
Surprisingly little has been written about the ethical challenges that academic administrators are likely to face. Most of the literature relating to academic administration focuses on “leadership” and draws heavily on management and social science theory. The importance of focusing on ethical deliberation and decision-making often goes unrecognized.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration
Editors: Elaine E. Englehardt, Michael S. Pritchard, Kerry D. Romesburg, Brian E. Schrag
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2841-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2840-2Published: 01 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9062-9Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2841-9Published: 18 September 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 196
Topics: Higher Education, Ethics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Philosophy of Education