Professors Behaving Badly

John M. Braxton is a professor of education at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, and editor of Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle, Perspectives on Scholarly Misconduct in the Sciences, and Faculty Teaching and Research: Is There a Conflict? Eve Proper is an assistant professor of management at LIM College, New York, N.Y. Alan E. Bayer is a professor emeritus of sociology at Virginia Tech and director emeritus and founder of the Virginia Tech Center for Survey Research. Professors Braxton and Bayer are coeditors of Faculty and Student Classroom Improprieties and coauthors of Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching, the latter also published by Johns Hopkins.

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Critical Role of Norms in Graduate Education1. Incidents of Faculty Improprieties in Graduate Training2. Study Design3. The Normative Structure of Graduate Education4. Norm Espousal by Institutional Type and Academic Discipline5. Personal Attributes and Norm Espousal6. Norm Espousal and Faculty Professional Attainments and Involvement7. Core Norms, Differentiated Norms, and Key Differentiating Factors8. Graduate School Socialization and the Internalization of the Norms of Graduate Study9. The Support of Graduate Teaching Norms by Supporting Organizations10. Further Perspectives on the Internalization of the Norms of Graduate Teaching and Mentoring11. Conclusions and Recommendations for Research, Policy, and PracticeAppendix A: The Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Behaviors InventoryAppendix B: Means and Standard Deviations for Behaviors Included in the Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Behaviors Inventory (GTMBI)Appendix C: Respondent Bias AssessmentReferencesIndex

Tools for monitoring and evaluating the behavior of graduate teachers are also provided, in this practical, serious-minded reference and resource that no campus administrator or supervisor should be without. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review