The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration

by Weingartner, Rudolph H.

• ISBN13: 9780847690961
• ISBN10: 0847690962
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Academic administration, argues Rudolph Weingartner, is different from administration or managing in business because of the special character of institutions of higher learning. Colleges and universities are founded to serve certain purposes; they are supported in various ways by governments and private individuals; and, as professional institutions, they have students, among others, as clients to whom they owe education services in ways analogous to the obligations hospitals have to their patients. In this book, Weingartner argues that academic administration is not just another job of managing, but a calling that importantly assists institutions to carry out their missions.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Chapter 1. Institutions of Higher Education Have Obligations	1	(16)
I. The Business Corporation and the Institution of Higher Education	1	(2)
II. Institutions of Higher Education: Their Roots in Society	3	(8)
III. Tuition, Students, and the Institution	11	(6)
Chapter 2. Colleges and Universities as Professional Institutions	17	(14)
I. The Nature of Professions and the Relationship of Professionals to Their Clients	17	(7)
II. Students as Clients of Institutions of Higher Education	24	(2)
III. Institutions Can Have Obligations	26	(5)
Chapter 3. My Station and Its Duties	31	(16)
I. If Institutions of Higher Education Have Obligations, Their Administrators Do	31	(7)
II. Institutional Goals and Administrative Obligations	38	(9)
Chapter 4. Quality: Teaching	47	(18)
I. The Competent Institution	47	(2)
II. Teaching: Overcoming the Paradox	49	(9)
III. Informed Consent	58	(7)
Chapter 5. Quality: Research	65	(18)
I. Policies	65	(3)
II. The Necessity of Research	68	(4)
III. Evaluation	72	(5)
IV. Pedagogical Research	77	(3)
V. A Coda on Trying Harder	80	(3)
Chapter 6. Supervision	83	(20)
I. Managing People	83	(4)
II. Supervising the Faculty: To Do and Let Be	87	(1)
III. Maintaining a Competent Faculty	88	(2)
IV. Research Integrity	90	(4)
V. Research and Profit	94	(3)
VI. Creating and Sustaining an Ethos	97	(6)
Chapter 7. Two Practices	103	(16)
I. Some Moral Dimensions of the Determination of Faculty Salaries	103	(5)
II. Some Moral Aspects of the Tenure Decision	108	(11)
Postscript	119	(8)
Appendix 1: Educational Institutions as Tax Exempt	127	(4)
Appendix 2: Statement on Professional Ethics of the American Association of University Professors	131	(4)
Appendix 3: Statement of Professional Ethics of Professors of the Modern Language Association of America	135	(8)
Appendix 4: Statement of Good Practices by Law Professors in the Discharge of Their Ethical and Professional Responsibilities	143	(8)
Appendix 5: On Teaching	151	(12)
(A) The Teaching Portfolio: A Checklist of Items That Might Be Included	151	(4)
(B) Teaching Circles	155	(4)
(C) Considering Teaching in the Appointment of Faculty Members	159	(4)
Appendix 6: Scholars Fear "Star" System May Undercut Their Mission	163	(4)
Appendix 7: The Theory of the Profession and Its Predicament	167	(14)
References	181	(4)
Index	185	(4)
About the Author	189