Universities Ethics and Professions

<p>Every business and organization today needs to impress stakeholders with its ethics policy. <em>Universities, Ethics and Professions</em> examines how this emphasis on ethics by the professional world is impacting universities, institutions that have long been key contributors to ethical reflection and debate, and shapers of ethical discourse. Changing objectives, globalization, and public concerns continue to bring professionalism, and commercialization, into the dialogue about what ethics mean on campus.</p><p><em>Universities, Ethics and Professions</em> offers an in-depth examination of the changing landscape of academic ethics, with case-study analysis from sociologists, educationalists, management specialists and philosophers. As professionalism becomes an integral part of university teaching, training, and research, this book considers the impact on the ethical practices of academics, and explores the importance of universities remaining sites of open discourse on ethics in the future.</p> <p><em>Acknowledgements</em> </p><p>1. <em>Introduction</em>, John Strain, Ronald Barnett and Peter Jarvis </p><p>Section 1 <em>The debate: ethics in contemporary universities</em></p><p><em>Introduction to Section 1</em></p><p>2. <em>Ethics, values and higher education: the power of globalization</em>, Peter Jarvis</p><p>3. <em>The vitality of ethics in the contemporary university</em>, John Strain</p><p>4. <em>The post-modern university: prospects of the ethical</em>, Ronald Barnett</p><p>Section 2 <em>Ethical concepts in academic practice</em></p><p><em>Introduction to Section 2</em></p><p>5. <em>Formation and virtue, academic and professional</em>, Christopher Megone</p><p>6. <em>Community as an academic ethic</em>, Bruce Macfarlane</p><p>7. <em>Dialogue, virtue and ethics</em>,Stan van Hooft</p><p>8. <em>Excellence and the pursuit of competence in contemporary universities: a view from the U.S.A.</em>, Joan Whitman Hoff</p><p>Section 3 <em>Universities, ethics and professions: some different perspectives</em> </p><p><em>Introduction to Section 3</em></p><p>9. <em>The teacher’s perspective: teaching ethics and professional ethics in universities</em>, Christopher Belshaw</p><p>10. <em>Looking forward: the researcher’s perspective, </em>Martin Bulmer and Josephine Ocloo </p><p>11. <em>Views from the boundary: business and professional perspectives, </em>Simon Robinson</p><p>12. <em>Looking at what is needed: from the chief executive’s desk</em>, Roger Steare</p><p>13. <em>Departures</em>, John Strain, Ronald Barnett and Peter Jarvis </p><p>Index</p>