cs ii.5 - g. bexell
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Ethics and Higher Education
GÖRAN BEXELL, F. VICE-CHANCELLOR LUND UNIVERSITY
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Two main questions of this conference
• How can universities become more decisive partners in the issues on the global agenda?
• How can we take a more active role in shaping humanity´s common future?
• Rethink and apply academic values!
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The heart of universities: academic values
No academic values - no universities
Academic freedom and responsibility
academic integrity
academic quality
academic collegiality
Academic values: yes!
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Threats against academic values
Conservatism and instrumentalism
Defense of privileges
Change of organization
Internal misuse of power
External demands
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Human values and academic values
Mutual support
Global and shared values
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Academic values and ethical guidelines
Ethics: values, norms and virtues
The purpose of guidelines: to support values
bild etik.htm
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The new IAU-document
• Valuable document
• Guidelines more than values
• Future goal: one document including values
• Implementation; Ethical Advisory Committee
• Rules of sanctions
• Ethical knowledge and sensibility
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Two documents: IAU and Lund University
• Ethical Issues at LU:
• LU is part of a worldwide value system
• Researcher ethics and research ethics
• Model for discussion of ethical issues
• Collection of examples from LU
• IAU: Ethical guidelines for actions
• Find your own way!
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Higher education and ethics
A twofold purpose of ethics for Higher Education:
Defense against misconduct (a negative task)
Challenge to build universities with ethical commitment (a positive task)
Why ethics?
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Guidelines: defense against misconduct
• Discrimination
• Cheating
• Corruption
• Bribes
• Increase accountability, assessments, support within IAU
• Cf reports by Stephen Heynemann, Jami Salmi
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Ethics as a challenge: the teacher as a role model
Incorporates academic values
in education and research
in daily life
One way to influence tomorrow´s global leaders!
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Ethics as a challenge: the student as an academic citizen
Foster the student to understand, integrate and implement academic values
An academic citizen
A future global leader
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Ethics as a challenge: the societal responsibility of a university
• Universities are not value-neutral in society
• Represent human and academic values
• Rethink how to influence society!
• Responsibility towards society
• Protect free speech and publishing, non-discrimination, analysis and alternatives, relevant education and research, participate in public debate
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Ethics as a challenge: the global responsibility of a university
Global issues: MDG, post 2015 UN goals
Students: global citizens
Academic values against other values taking over the global leadership
A global unity of shared values and academic diversity
Global future
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Ethics as a challenge:the university as a role model institution
• High confidence of the public is necessary for universities
• Intellectual and ethical independence from economic, political and religious powers
• No identification with antidemocratic systems, mere capitalism, narrow-minded utility, globalism
• High ethical standard
• An enormous impact on society
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Thank You!
My latest book (in Swedish): Akademiska värden visar vägen, Stockholm 2011
(not yet translated: Academic values show the way)
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