Abstract

As members of academic team, faculty behaviors have vital influence on students’ lives at universities. This study purposes to discover students’ perceptions about faculty behaviors concerning their professional responsibilities, dating/sexual harassment, behaviors inside and behaviors outside the classroom and relationship based on self-interest. The study employs both a quantitative and a qualitative research technique. Results reveal that students’ considerations are negative in terms of faculty behaviors inside the classroom and faculty professional behaviors. Significant differences were discovered according to establishment dates of the universities and students’ Grand Point Averages (GPAs).

Highlights

  • Educators prepare members of a society into for its structures and functioning and students’ future lives as well

  • Little empirical research was conducted on students’ perceptions of faculty ethical behaviors in academia and outcomes of those perceptions. Bearing it on our mind, this study addresses students’ perceptions of faculty ethical behaviors in terms of faculty professional responsibilities, dating/sexual harassment, relations based on self-interest, faculty behaviors inside the classroom and faculty behaviors outside the classroom

  • This study was conducted to find out faculty ethical behaviors according to students’ perceptions

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Introduction

Educators prepare members of a society into for its structures and functioning and students’ future lives as well. In this respect, as teachers, supervisors, evaluators, screeners and certifiers, they help their students gain knowledge, develop their skills, learn values and acquire attitudes necessary for understanding themselves. Hall (1973) reveals that students have very strong feelings about memories, feelings and they experience great discomfort when their moral sensibilities are violated. This makes teaching profession more crucial than any other profession. It draws a lot of attention from the society and according to Haas, Malouf and Mayerson (1988), recent years have been marked by a rise in professional and public consciousness about ethical issues since 1980s

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