Why is the issue of "academic ethics" important at university?

Question

Since we've heard or read something unethical regarding some academic issues in universities, I'd like to know your experience or ideas to share, thanks.

Please allow me to add more details, from the term I mean any ethical issues related to teaching and learning plus research from bachelor's to doctoral degrees. In other words, to what extent and how should we conform to the internationally-recognized ethical standards related to those major fields in good and great universities?

Answer 1

Academic ethics is important for preserving the value of higher education. While your question is vague, I presume that you are asking about things like honor codes and academic honesty.

College degrees are valued when the work that went into attaining them can be relatively assured. That is the biggest problem with most of the online-only degree granting "universities" such as University of Phoenix. Not only are the standards low, but there are relatively few safeguards in place that enforce that work is original, work is being done, and that all of the traditional aspects of academic ethics are enforced.

Answer 2

I think the question is too vague... because "ethics" is such a broad category...

Too many people associate "ethics" with "morals".

But I would like to see more universities steer clear of being "sports schools" because there can be no academic ethics when you are graduating professionals who can barely count to 10 but they can throw a field goal like nobody's business...

Sometimes I feel like todays society worships ignorance because the dumbest people seem to bring home the most bacon... so the best way to increase academic ethics would be to increase the rewards for academic achievement.

Answer 3

Because a lot of people make it in based on book smarts but have Zero ethics . Too many students have the honor of zombies , truth is an alien concept to them.
Our competitive society has made it worse because now there is rampant cheating and not only do the legit students get beat out
But also , companies end up hiring the fake , the fraud that does NOT know shiit , except the fine art of BullS---.

Worse , I suspect it is as solvable as global warming
{as in NOT}

Answer 4

"Tolerance might propose which you're putting up with something you dislike or disagree with" specific. for occasion gay intercourse which i hit upon foul and disgusting even to think of of. yet I "tolerate it". Why? because of the fact that's no longer my backside and that's none of my company. i hit upon the arguments for tolerance in line with "expertise" or subjectivity risky. They propose that if a particular ethical isn't subjective or in case you won't be able to "understand" the behaviour you have a stunning to place an end to it. you do no longer, you do not have a stunning to intervene in others lives. What we'd desire to get by way of to human beings isn't "rather expertise our fellow planet-dwellers" yet know. each individual owns his or herself and, know it or no longer, human beings might desire to know what they do with their very own property.