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Ethics and Higher Education
GÖRAN BEXELL, F. VICE-CHANCELLOR LUND UNIVERSITY
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!
The heart of universities: academic values
No academic values - no universities
Academic freedom and responsibility
academic integrity
academic quality
academic collegiality
Academic values: yes!
Threats against academic values
Conservatism and instrumentalism
Defense of privileges
Change of organization
Internal misuse of power
External demands
Human values and academic values
Mutual support
Global and shared values
Academic values and ethical guidelines
Ethics: values, norms and virtues
The purpose of guidelines: to support values
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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
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!
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?
Guidelines: defense against misconduct
• Discrimination
• Cheating
• Corruption
• Bribes
• Increase accountability, assessments, support within IAU
• Cf reports by Stephen Heynemann, Jami Salmi
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!
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
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
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
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
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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