Advancing the Integrity of Professional Practice
New Directions for Student Services, Number 135
Published on 7. October 2011
88 pages
978-1-118-19475-1 (ISBN)
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Defining integrity as "the combination of attributes and actionsthat makes people and organizations coherent, consistent, andpotentially ethical," the editor and contributing authorsillustrate how student affairs administrators can understand andimplement integrity in their institutions.
Early chapters explore the organizational integrity of studentaffairs. Transactional and transformational leadership perspectivesare discussed in the second section.
Other contributing authors tie education to integrity. In theirchapter, Dennis Roberts and Trudy Banta engage in a dialogue aboutthe way student development theory should guide practice, and howits assessment is essential to maintain the integrity of ourpractice. Sue Saunders and Jennifer Lease Butts consider how weshould teach integrity to graduate students and newprofessionals.
Final chapters explore challenges to integrity ranging fromthose in the normal work routines, such as resident hall directorsconfronting late night parties or interoffice dynamics, to thosefaced in extraordinary circumstances such as the ones faced in thewake of Hurricane Katrina.
Readers of this volume will learn how integrity affects thetrustworthiness of their organizations and operations. They willhave the opportunity to read about the highest goals and the bestpractices of leadership, and gain ideas about some practicalstrategies that can help them deal with challenges toorganizational and individual integrity.
This is the 135th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Student Services, Anindispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs,deans of students, student counselors, and other student servicesprofessionals, New Directions for Student Services offersguidelines and programs for aiding students in their totaldevelopment: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.
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Editor's Notes 1
Robert B. Young
1. The Virtues of Organizational Integrity 5
Robert B. Young
Divisions of student affairs must be structurally sound andorient their efforts to promote ethical change to thecharacteristics of different types of colleges anduniversities.
2. Integrity in Student Affairs Organizations 15
Leonard Baird
Student affairs needs to create an environment in whichstudents, staff, and administrators are accountable for theiractions and policies, in order to deal with changing demands fromstakeholders.
3. Promoting Integrity through Standards of Practice27
Susan R. Komives and Jan Arminio
The Council for the Advancement of Standards can helpadministrators understand, assess, and maintain the integrity ofstudent affairs functions for accreditation and internalimprovement.
4. Integrity in Transactional Leadership 35
Thomas Miller
Student affairs administrators need to conduct theirtransactions with students in clear, consistent, honest, and openways to maintain integrity.
5. Transformational Leadership, Integrity, and Power45
Laura M. Harrison
Transformational leadership is a valuable ideal, but studentaffairs administrators need to know how to negotiate complexpolitical realities if they want to build institutionalintegrity.
6. Integrity in Student Development 53
Dennis C. Roberts and Trudy W. Banta
The authors engage in a dialogue about theory and practice, andpromote assessment as a means to improve the integrity of studentdevelopment.
7. Teaching Integrity 67
Sue Saunders and Jennifer Lease Butts
Integrity can be an important element in professionalpreparation programs and in continuing professional education.
8. Give In or Get Out? Responding to Professional Challenges79
Robert B. Young
The author presents themes from interviews with several studentaffairs administrators about challenges to their integrity.
9. Gone With the Wind? Integrity and Hurricane Katrina89
Frances Lucas and Brit Katz
The past president and vice president of student affairsdescribe how they tried to maintain the integrity of MillsapsCollege in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Index 97
