t be based on respect.
Respect as a personal value implies, in any society, the public
acknowledgements of justice and of due honor If these values
did not exist, then the society of scientists would have to invent
them to make the practice of science possible. In societies where
these values did not exist, science has had to create them."
(Bronowski, p. 63).
Perhaps the greatest challenge of leadership is to socialize professionals
in contexts and settings that do not capitulate to that which
is elitist, divisive, petty, and joyless, but to build academic
environments that foster individual and institutional transparencies
and that enable us to bear and discuss our worries and failings
in ways that do not erode our self-respect or our caring for one
another and our university. Parker Palmer wrote that "The
university should be unstable and dynamic, even have an element
of danger. But it should also be a place where people feel nurtured,
where they can come to grow, develop and thrive, not just as scholars
but as people and as members of a community." These challenges
are as insistent as their underlying ideals. But to offer professionals
the opportunity to mold, work and live in environments that tirelessly
seek to realize these ideals is clearly the mark of a great institution.
The Participants
John Banja
Center For Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions
Natasha Barnes
Department of English
John Bugge
Department of English
Bruce Greenfield
Division of Physical Therapy
Gary Hauk
Secretary of the University
Pat Marsteller
Department of Biology
Charlotte McDaniel
School of Theology
Joyce Murray
School of Nursing
Helen O'Shea
School of Nursing
Laurie Patton
Department of Religious Studies
Gina Pyke
Department of Psychology
P. V. Rao
Department of Physics
Jeffrey Reznick
Institute For Comparative and International Studies
Beth Seelig
Department of Psychiatry
Mark Vakkur
Department of Psychiatry (VAMC)
Karen Vandermuelin
Department of Religious Studies
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Christopher Badcock, The Problem of Altruism: Freudian-Darwinian Solutions (Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1986)
Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (New York: Perennial Library, Harper & Row, 1956)
Michael Davis, Ethics and the University (London: Routledge, 1999)
Maxine Greene, The Dialectic of Freedom (NY: Teachers College Press, 1988)
Susan Haack, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays (Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Frank E. Haggard, "Hiring and Mentoring new Faculty members," ADE Bulletin, Spring 1990:25-28.
Barbara R. Heller, Marla T. Oros, Jane Durney-Crowley, "The Future of Nursing Education; 10 Trends to Watch," Nursing and Health Care Perspectives 1999; 21(1):9-13.
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Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995)
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Kathy Newman, "Nice Work If We Can Keep It: Confessions of a Junior Professor," Academe 1999;85(3):29-33.
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Parker J. Palmer, The Courage To
Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998)
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Applied & Preventive Psychology 1996;5:1-8.
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Irvin Yalom, "Three Unopened Letters,"
in Love's Executioner (New York: Harper Perennial,
1989).