My article on the problematic and ubiquitous university/state employee "ethics test" can be found in an edited version at the Chronicle of Higher Ed's "Conversation" website. Please visit and add your voice! One commenter described the tone as "whiny and PC," so I must be doing something right...
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The Trouble with “Ethics”
If you are an employee of a higher education institution, you can likely set your watch by it: the dread annual ethics test. Usually presented as a self-paced, online "learning module," the test is designed, ostensibly, to measure your ability to deal with complex workplace situations. Some of the situations require use of your best… Continue reading The Trouble with “Ethics”
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1 minute, ten seconds. That's how long I withstood a viewing of the video, posted on October 27th and now approaching two million views, of Hillary Adams, aged 16 at the time, being viciously beaten by her father, Aransas Co. family court Judge William Adams. In 2004, Hillary Adams was caught accessing content online for… Continue reading 1:10.