Topic: Ethics
Facebook data: why ethical reviews matter in academic research
When the Facebook data of 50m users was collected by Cambridge academic Aleksandr Kogan, his actions reportedly came to the attention of […]
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Hot for Teacher: Rethinking Education’s Sexual Harassment Policies
Sexual harassment policies assume that teachers have power and students don’t, argues Michelle Miller. Such policies risk outlawing consensual relationships that are “delicious, frightening, unruly” and just might reflect the excitement, even eroticism, of learning.
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The promises and potential of the scholarship of teaching and learning: moving slowly along a fascinating path
Research into teaching and learning might confirm that some widely-used pedagogies are not effective. For some, it might seem better just not to go there.
READ MOREThe ethical challenges in academia
In Illinois, state ethics legislation requires all public employees, including university faculty, to participate in ethics training and to be examined annually […]
READ MOREHow to Save the University
A review essay of Stanley Fish’s, Save the World on Your Own Time (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). “Neither the university […]
READ MOREEquity, ethics, academic freedom and the employment of contingent academics
The recent York University strike by contingent faculty has provided a focal point for discussion in my evening graduate course, “Faculty in […]
READ MOREAcademics in Politics
The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, once taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago’s law school. That makes […]
READ MOREMedical publishing and the drug industry: IS MEDICAL SCIENCE FOR SALE?
Observation #1 I recently looked at the c.v. of a distinguished professor of medicine and saw that he had authored (most usually […]
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