Ethical Decision Making: A Teaching and Learning Model for Graduate Students and New Professionals

Abstract

Student qjJairs practitioners are inundated with a variety of ethical considerations when making dqy-to-dqy decisions regarding the Jpe!fare if students and colleagues. There is every reason to believe that cotifronting ethical issues will be an increasingly difficult issue for student qjJairs prifessionals in thefuture. This article provides a modelfor ethical decision making that is designedparticularlYfor graduate students and neJJJprofessionals. Student affairs practitioners are inundated with a variety of ethical considerations when making day-to-day decisions regarding the welfare of students and colleagues. Indeed, Kitchener (1985) stated that "college student personnel work has ethical choices at its very core " (p. 17). Robert Brown (1985) agreed and stated, "The common mission of the student services profession is being the moral conscience of the campus. Staff responsibility is to promote and support ethical behavior on campus and to recognize and confront unethical behavior " (p. 68). Yet new student affairs practitioners and graduate students may view themselves as ill-prepared to address ethical decision making. The first time new professionals face an ethical decision is when it revolves around a crisis. At such times, the staff

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