Setting A Moral Vision For Academe: Bridging The "Is-Ought" Divide in International Education
Setting A Moral Vision For Academe: Bridging The "Is-Ought" Divide in International Education
Setting A Moral Vision For Academe: Bridging The "Is-Ought" Divide in International Education
Resolving Dilemmas
Applying ethical theory to such conditions requires practitioners who wish to move from disagreement to agreement among conflicting parties. In this sense, administrators and faculty confront difficult situations where conflicting ideas of rightness or wrongness, entitlements or rights, and justice or liberty hamper easy resolution of the difficulty at hand.
When confronted with complex problems and difficulties, we look to the law to determine what our response should be. Yet, the law often does provide a complete answer.
In many of these issues, administrators or faculty members often use the law as the standard for determining policy and action, if it applies. However, such recourse confuses the role of the law with ethics. The law provides a mandate which the community has sanctioned as conforming to its norms or customs. It provides only a minimal standard for determining what is right or wrong in a particular situation, since the law has developed in response to societal pressure.
Code of Ethics
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Truthfulness and Transparency Responsibility to Students Relationships with Host Societies Observance of Law and Good Practice Conflicts of Interest Gifts, Gratuities, Discounts, Rebates and Compensation