EDUCATION FORUM Accountability and the Public Trust Among the signs that I've been in academia almost too long--in a public institution, to be precise--is that the old ddjg vu experience is starting to feel, like, well, ddjg vu all over again, like being trapped in a recursive calling sequence with no terminating condition. Some issues appear to be laid to rest, only to resurface in the same or only a slightly different guise again and again 1. Although it shows up in many forms, the recurring theme I allude to in this instance is faculty accountability to taxpayers. W o r k Hours Now, let it be known from the outset that I am a staunch believer in accountability to taxpayers. I am, after all, a taxpayer myself in addition to being a person supported by other taxpayers. It's just that attempts to enforce accountability on a faculty through policies and laws seldom work and usually run counter to their intended purposes. Why? Well, because such policies nearly always originate in a legislative body that tends not to distinguish--or even to recognize that a distinction exists--between faculty positions and any other state job--eight-to-five jobs in particular. I've even
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Accountability and the public trust
Ross, Rocky
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Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 2002
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