Advancing the Integrity of Professional Practice (PDF)

Defining integrity as "the combination of attributes and actionsthat makes people and organizations coherent, consistent, andpotentially ethical," the editor and contributing authorsillustrate how student affairs administrators can understand andimplement integrity in their institutions.

Early chapters explore the organizational integrity of studentaffairs. Transactional and transformational leadership perspectivesare discussed in the second section.

Other contributing authors tie education to integrity. In theirchapter, Dennis Roberts and Trudy Banta engage in a dialogue aboutthe way student development theory should guide practice, and howits assessment is essential to maintain the integrity of ourpractice. Sue Saunders and Jennifer Lease Butts consider how weshould teach integrity to graduate students and newprofessionals.

Final chapters explore challenges to integrity ranging fromthose in the normal work routines, such as resident hall directorsconfronting late night parties or interoffice dynamics, to thosefaced in extraordinary circumstances such as the ones faced in thewake of Hurricane Katrina.

Readers of this volume will learn how integrity affects thetrustworthiness of their organizations and operations. They willhave the opportunity to read about the highest goals and the bestpractices of leadership, and gain ideas about some practicalstrategies that can help them deal with challenges toorganizational and individual integrity.

This is the 135th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Student Services, Anindispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs,deans of students, student counselors, and other student servicesprofessionals, New Directions for Student Services offersguidelines and programs for aiding students in their totaldevelopment: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.