The Ethical University

Wanda Teays is a professor of philosophy emerita at Mount Saint Mary’s University (MSMU) in Los Angeles. She is the author of Doctors and Torture; Business Ethics Through Movies: A Case Study Approach; Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies, and Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society. She is editor of Analyzing Violence Against Women; Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fiction; and co-editor of Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age, Global Bioethics & Human Rights; and Bioethics, Justice & Health Care. In her 30 years at MSMU she was Philosophy Department Chair and served as chair on numerous faculty committees, including the Academic Integrity Committee, the Academic Freedom Committee, and the Faculty Policy Committee. Alison Dundes Renteln, is professor of political science, anthropology, law, and public policy at USC. She is the author of seventy articles and author or co-editor of: The Cultural Defense (2004), Cultural Law (2010), Images and Human Rights ( 2018), and Global Bioethics and Human Rights (2020). For decades Renteln taught judges, lawyers, court interpreters, jury consultants, and police officers at professional meetings. She collaborated with the UN on implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, lectured on comparative legal ethics at ABA-sponsored conferences, and served on a California committee of Human Rights Watch. In 2020 she was elected a member of the Board of Trustees for the Law and Society Association and appointed to the California State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Acknowledgements

Preface, Wanda Teays

Part I: Ethical Frameworks

Chapter 1. Scandals and Historic Injustices at Universities: An Argument for Greater Accountability, Alison Dundes Renteln

Chapter 2. Ethical Foundations For Institutional Integrity, Wanda Teays

Chapter 3. Privacy, Play, and the Digitalization of the University, Glen Miller and Cora Drozd

Part II: The Community

Chapter 4. Shared Governance in Higher Education, Darin Dockstader, Mathew Mahrt, and Charles Milne

Chapter 5. Academic Libraries: Advocating for an Ethical University, Robert V. Labaree and Melissa L. Miller

Chapter 6. The Use of Adjuncts Within Colleges and Universities, Michael Boylan

Chapter 7. Rights-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Student Athletes, Jonathan Liljeblad

Chapter 8. Campus Policing: What Authority and Limits are Appropriate?, Rita Manning

Part III: Challenges

Chapter 9. The Role of the Humanities in Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Zenon Culverhouse

Chapter 10. Pedagogical Issues: The Gen Ed Challenge, Laura Nader

Chapter 11. Is Your Grading Scale Unfair?, Paul Renteln

Chapter 12. Do Aging Academics Have a Moral Obligation To Retire?, Rosemarie Tong

Chapter 13. Ethical Issues With International Students and Faculty, Cher Weixia Chen

Chapter 14. Secrecy and The University: A Cautionary Case Study, Steve Sanders

Appendix: Shared Governance Policies, Charles Milne

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