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Identifying Lurking Alligators: An Essay on the Ethical Dimensions of Faculty Development

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The literature on ethics in higher education tends to focus primarily on the professor/student relationship. While that relationship is central to academia, there are important ethical dimensions to consider in the work of faculty development. Principles used to gloss the ethics of the professor/student relationship are applicable to the ethics of faculty development as well.

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  1. United States Military Academy, West Point, New York

    Anita Gandolfo

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Gandolfo, A. Identifying Lurking Alligators: An Essay on the Ethical Dimensions of Faculty Development. Innovative Higher Education 22, 135–150 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025197424284

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