Academic Ethics: Problems and Materials on Professional Conduct and Shared Governance (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education) - Hardcover

Neil Hamilton observes that most doctoral programs fail to educate students about academic ethics so that knowledge of it is eroding. Lack of emphasis on ethics in graduate programs leads to skepticism about the necessity of learning about ethics and about how to teach it. Moreover, nihilist philosophies that have gained currency within the academy itself such as Stanley Fishs antifoundationalism contribute to the neglect of ethics education. Neil Hamilton has done the academic community a significant service with his new book on academic ethics....Graduate students, new professors and experienced faculty alike can benefit from Hamilton's thought-provoking analysis of the ethical duties and correlative rights of academics, both as individuals and as a collegial body....[H]amilton's book is a valuable resource to anyone with either a scholarly or practical interest in academic ethics.--Inside Higher Ed

Academic professionals are expected to restrain self-interest, promote the ideals of public service, and maintain high standards of performance, while society grants the profession autonomy to regulate itself through peer review. Hamilton conveys the need for ethical leadership from within the peer collegium--leadership that will foster a culture of high aspiration and peer review.