ERIC Number: EJ1365011
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Mar
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-1570-1727
EISSN: EISSN-1572-8544
Assessing the State of Ethics Education in General Education Curricula at U.S. Research Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges
Journal of Academic Ethics, v21 n1 p19-40 Mar 2023
Higher education is seeing renewed calls for strengthening ethics education, yet there remains a dearth of research on the state of ethics education across undergraduate curricula. Research about ethics in higher education tends to be localized and often isolated to fields of graduate study. In contribution to a contemporary, landscape understanding of ethics education, we collected data on the placement and prevalence of ethics instruction within the general education curricula at 507 major U.S. colleges and universities. Our findings suggest that 1) most schools in our study's population do not explicitly require ethics as a part of their general education curricula; and 2) a school's religiosity and research status are positively associated with explicitly requiring ethics instruction for its undergraduate student body.
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, General Education, Research Universities, Liberal Arts, Colleges, Undergraduate Study, College Curriculum, Institutional Characteristics, Religion, Required Courses
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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