Chapter 3

Enacting the Core Values of Academic Ethos

Toward Enacting Academic Ethos Values

By discovering and defining academic ethos, a school of higher learning makes general statements about its central characteristics (core values). These characteristics constitute the set of meaning that management wants the academic community to use in viewing, describing, and relating to a university. The key differences among higher schools lie not in the general core values statement (many universities have very similar or nearly the same core values), but in the effectiveness of transmitting the chosen academic ethos to the academic community and other stakeholders. The instrument of core values of academic ethos transmission to participants of an ...

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