A conceptualization of social responsibility among faculty of a private liberal arts college

Cecil, Kyle

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Title

A conceptualization of social responsibility among faculty of a private liberal arts college

Author(s)

Cecil, Kyle

Issue Date

2013-08-22T16:37:43Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Cain, Timothy R.

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Cain, Timothy R.

Committee Member(s)

• Ikenberry, Stanley O.
• Kuchinke, K. Peter
• Alter, Theodore

Department of Study

Ed Organization and Leadership

Discipline

Ed Organization and Leadership

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ed.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• higher education
• liberal arts college
• social responsibility

Abstract

This qualitative study investigated how social responsibility was conceptualized and practiced by interpreting the narratives of 15 faculty members at a Midwestern private liberal arts college. Key findings indicated that social responsibility at the college was found in the collective focus on how best to develop students’ (graduates’, citizens’) cognitive and moral understandings and their subsequent propensities to live their lives in accordance with those principles. Faculty efforts to address social responsibility were intentional but were not the same as those described in the literature. The definition understood and enacted by faculty at Midwest College was specific and particular and was a link from the edge of the broader social responsibility literature to the literature on student development. Social responsibility was embedded in practice, primarily in teaching, and was exemplified through faculty efforts at fostering the holistic development of students. Social responsibility was evidenced through the conception of values that undergird faculty members’ approaches to teaching at the college.

Graduation Semester

2013-08

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Copyright 2013 Kyle Cecil

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