Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guidelines we do ask our faculty and staff members, because of professional obligations and their voluntary relationship with other members of the academic community, to forego rights that they otherwise have as citizens (i.e. "the gathering of intelligence nd other covert activities on behalf of the CIA"). We made this request because we concluded that the practices in question are inconsistent with the nature of a university community and the obligations of a member of the academic profession. Covert recruiting by university personnel and its attendant practices bring a new and disturbing element into the relationships among members...
Controversies sprang up sporadically this year, arousing emotions in several parts of the University. The most publicized stir arose when the Sociology Department's senior Faculty members voted last fall not to recommend Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, for a tenured position. Those who voted against Skocpol--whose...
...ties to the legal profession. A report approved by the faculty on April 29 encourages lawyers to come to the school as visiting fellows to work with students on projects. Starting in 1982, the school will offer a full load of courses exploring the legal profession and dealing with professional responsibility...
The well-known spokesman for the medical profession's growing anti-militarism movement charged her listeners and her fellow doctors with the responsibility of accepting "our own dark side," and exposing it to other Americans.
He also knows his writing. As the author of a published novel, LeBaron is a talented narrator with a gift for fluid glibness. Thus, he seems like the perfect person to write an expose on the training of doctors--the most criticized profession in this country besides politics.