Academic duty
By: Donald Kennedy.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.; Academic freedom -- United States.; College teachers -- United States.; College teaching -- United States.
Description: Donald Kennedy, the former president of Stanford University and currently a member of its faculty, has been at the front lines of the issues confounding the academy today. In this new book, he brings his experience and concern to bear on the present state of the university. He examines teaching, graduate training, research, and their ethical context in the research university.

Aware of the numerous pressures that academics face, from the pursuit of open inquiry in the midst of culture wars, to confusion and controversy over the ownership of ideas, to the scramble for declining research funds and facilities, he explores the whys and wherefores of academic misconduct, be it scholarly, financial, or personal.

Kennedy suggests that meaningful reform cannot take place until more rigorous standards of academic responsibility - to students, the university, and the public - are embraced by both faculty and the administration.