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March 29, 2017
Professors Behaving Badly: Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education
- Author
- Braxton, John M., Proper, Eve M., and Bayer, Alan E.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- ISBN
- 9781421402192
- Book Review Link
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/teth.12100/abstract
- Table of Contents
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List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction - The Critical Role of Norms in Graduate Education
ch. 1 Incidents of Faculty Improprieties in Graduate Training
ch. 2 Study Design
ch. 3 The Normative Structure of Graduate Education
ch. 4 Norm Espousal by Institutional Type and Academic Discipline
ch. 5 Personal Attributes and Norm Espousal
ch. 6 Norm Espousal and Faculty Professional Attainments and Involvement
ch. 7 Core Norms, Differentiated Norms, and Key Differentiating Factors
ch. 8 Graduate School Socialization and the Internalization of the Norms of Graduate Study
ch. 9 The Support of Graduate Teaching Norms by Supporting Organizations
ch. 10 Further Perspectives on the Internalization of the Norms of Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
ch. 11 Conclusion and Recommendations for Research, Policy, and Practice
Appendix A - The Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Behaviors Inventory
Appendix B - Means and Standard Deviations for Behaviors Included in the Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Behaviors Inventory (GTMBI)
Appendix C - Respondent Bias Assessment
References
Index
• A faculty member publishes an article without offering coauthorship to a graduate assistant who has made a substantial conceptual or methodological contribution to the article.
• A professor does not permit graduate students to express viewpoints different from her own.
• A graduate student close to finishing his dissertation cannot reach his traveling advisor, a circumstance that jeopardizes his degree.
This book discusses these and other examples of faculty misconduct—and how to avoid them.
Using data collected through faculty surveys, the authors describe behaviors associated with graduate teaching which are considered inappropriate and in violation of good teaching practices. They derive a normative structure that consists of five inviolable and eight admonitory proscriptive criteria to help graduate faculty make informed and acceptable professional choices.
The authors discuss the various ways in which faculty members acquire the norms of teaching and mentoring, including the graduate school socialization process, role models, disciplinary codes of ethics, and scholarship about the professoriate and professional performance. Analyzing the rich data gleaned from the faculty surveys, they track how these norms are understood and interpreted across academic disciplines and are influenced by such factors as gender, citizenship, age, academic rank, tenure, research activity, and administrative experience. (From the Publisher)
• A professor does not permit graduate students to express viewpoints different from her own.
• A graduate student close to finishing his dissertation cannot reach his traveling advisor, a circumstance that jeopardizes his degree.
This book discusses these and other examples of faculty misconduct—and how to avoid them.
Using data collected through faculty surveys, the authors describe behaviors associated with graduate teaching which are considered inappropriate and in violation of good teaching practices. They derive a normative structure that consists of five inviolable and eight admonitory proscriptive criteria to help graduate faculty make informed and acceptable professional choices.
The authors discuss the various ways in which faculty members acquire the norms of teaching and mentoring, including the graduate school socialization process, role models, disciplinary codes of ethics, and scholarship about the professoriate and professional performance. Analyzing the rich data gleaned from the faculty surveys, they track how these norms are understood and interpreted across academic disciplines and are influenced by such factors as gender, citizenship, age, academic rank, tenure, research activity, and administrative experience. (From the Publisher)