Title: Academic duty
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Academic freedom, Aims and objectives, College teachers, College teaching, Education, Higher, Higher Education, Enseignement supérieur, Liberté de l'enseignement, Enseignement universitaire, Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur), Finalités, Education, higher, aims and objectives
Places: United States
LC classification: LA227.4 .K465 1997