Anuj Patel - ASA 002 BLOG POST 4

Anuj Patel

Week 4

ASA 002, Section A03

ID: 998882783

Corporatization Of The University

In the article “Ethics and “Breaking Bad”: Developing and Practicing Ethical Skills, by Amy Block Joy, Amy mentions the importance of us making good ethical contributions in society and differentiates the process of thinking about these ethical considerations versus actually following them (Joy 71-72). According to Amy, it is significantly easier to go to “ethics training classes” than to do “what’s actually right” (Joy 72). Amy also mentions that this has to do with fear and peer-pressure, and these factors often contribute to us making unethical decisions to help ourselves but create a bigger expense to society at the same time (Joy 73). I would agree with Amy when applying ethics to my own life as well as to campus culture at UC Davis. For example, people at UC Davis “often commit academic dishonesty when they perceive cheating is easy and safe, and when faculty won’t report them” (UC Davis Student Judicial Affairs – Promoting Integrity: Creating A Climate of Academic Integrity In The Classroom). Many people do indeed cheat when they feel like the results do not matter to them, just like how Amy discusses that many people and universities make poor ethical decisions and are selfish when the stakes are low (Joy 74-75). Also sometimes students at UC Davis make other types of unethical decisions that do not relate to academics but that do affect the university reputation, such as underage drinking, when they are with friends who drink and are over the age of 21 and want to get a sample of what life is like ahead (UC Davis Student Judicial Affairs). I believe that these decisions students are making are in effect corporatizing the university as well as higher education as a whole as trends in one university often apply to other universities nearby as well, and these actions sincerely hurt the reputation and future of college graduates as a whole (Lindsay 40).

Image: Consequences of Academic Dishonesty (Hu and Newcomer, 2010).

Question: Is academic dishonesty corporatizing and corrupting our university system to the extent that college graduates cannot perform at a higher level than people who attend some college but do not finish?

References

Hu, M. Y., & Newcomer, E. P. (2010, March 22-23). Ad Board Grapples with Plagiarism | News | The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved from http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/22/academic-dishonesty-ad-cases/?utm_source=thecrimson&utm_medium=web_primary&utm_campaign=recommend_sidebar

Joy, A. B. (2014, May). Ethics and "Breaking Bad": Developing and Practicing Ethnical Skills. Compliance & Ethics Professional.

Lindsay, B. (2011). STUDENT PLAGIARISM IN UNIVERSITIES: THE SCOPE OF DISCIPLINARY RULES AND THE QUESTION OF EVIDENTIARY STANDARDS.

 Retrieved from

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IntJlLawEdu/2011/3.pdf

Student Judicial Affairs. UC Davis - Student Support and Judicial Affairs. Faculty and OSSJA – Promoting Integrity. Creating a Climate of Academic Integrity In The Classroom. Retrieved April 23, 2017, from http://sja.ucdavis.edu/faculty-and-sja-page3.html

Student Judicial Affairs. UC Davis - Student Support and Judicial Affairs. What are examples of violations for which students are referred? Retrieved April 23, 2017, from http://sja.ucdavis.edu/faq.html#can-students