Collegial professionalism: the academy, individualism, and the common good

A Descriptive Study of Physician Assistant Faculty Benefits

“…There is some consensus among researchers that faculty morale is declining in American universities. 5,6,7,8 Competitive salary and employee benefits may create an environment for good morale. The foundation for PA faculty is the knowledge that administration cares and provides an opportunity for them to be heard.…”

Management Educators’ Expectations for Professional Ethics Development

“…The Academy needs to consider offering a departmental recognition award for a collaborative group of management faculty that exhibit professional, supportive regard between and among tenured and untenured faculty, (i.e., ongoing mentoring of untenured faculty by tenured faculty; untenured faculty sharing new research and technological skills with tenured faculty). Furthermore, benchmarking activities that demonstrate relational behavior would be another means of internally and externally demonstrating that being a professional management educator carries with it certain citizenship obligations that supercede individual productivity (Bennett, 1998).…”

“…However, while Academy officers and tenured and untenured management faculty members can wax eloquent on endorsing collegial professionalism, actual practice within university management departments often suggests values contary to AM-CEC norms (Bayles, 1993;Bennett, 1998;Hamilton, 2002;Leatherman, 2000). Consider the following non-collegial, non-communitarian norms in many management departments (Damrosch, 1995;Hamilton, 2002): (1) disciplinary segmentation and control to such an extent that tenured and untenured members in the same field are often regarded as unqualified to assess and evaluate each other's special accomplishments and competencies;…”

Value Dissonance and Ethics Failure in Academia: A Causal Connection?

“…Practicing ethics is more than "each of us ensuring the integrity of our own professional conduct." It is an institutional responsibility (Zajac and Comfort 1997;Bennett 1998). Damrosch (1995) observed, "The norms of alienation and aggression still enshrined in the university are the products not of nature, but of cultural choices..." (p. 106).…”