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The Duty to Protect: Privacy and the Public University

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This article addresses the tensions between the sense of responsibility that university administrators feel to protect student privacy with the requirement to be accountable and transparent to the public. This discussion is placed in the context of the history and purpose of post-secondary education.

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    As defined in The Oxford English Reference Dictionary (Pearsall & Trumsle, 1995), for example.

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Poff, D.C. (2022). The Duty to Protect: Privacy and the Public University. In: Poff, D.C. (eds) University Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance. Advances in Business Ethics Research, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77532-2_11

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