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Moral Positions and Academic Conduct: Parameters of Tolerance for Ethics Failure
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 73, Number 4, July/August 2002
- pp. 461-493
- 10.1353/jhe.2002.0033
- Article
- Additional Information
Academia is undergoing intense scrutiny by legislators and the public with respect to its accountability. We examine some common ethical boundaries in academia and opportunities for ethics failure to occur, suggest a typology of ethics failure, and explore the response to ethics failure and its consequences for the academic community.