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Wilson, Maureen E.; Hirschy, Amy S.; Braxton, John M. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
To protect the welfare of students, staff, and other clients in housing and residence life (HRL), administrators must understand what behaviors are unacceptable. Professionals might make idiosyncratic and unconstrained decisions when there is no conduct code or set of informal rules. Informal rules may become norms comprising normative structures…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), College Housing, Program Administration, Resident Advisers
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Lyken-Segosebe, Dawn; Min, Yunkyung; Braxton, John M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2012
Four-year colleges and universities that espouse teaching as their primary mission bear a responsibility to safeguard the welfare of their students as clients of teaching. This responsibility takes the form of a moral imperative. Faculty members hold considerable autonomy in the professional choices they make in their teaching. As a consequence,…
Descriptors: Grading, Guidelines, Assignments, Student Welfare
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Braxton, John M. – Journal of Higher Education, 1991
A survey of 138 chemistry, physics, psychology, and sociology department heads investigated the relationship between the administrator's graduate school department quality and the formality of sanctioning of colleagues for violating each of the four norms of science. The results and implications for professional socialization within disciplines…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Standards, Department Heads, Discipline Policy