September 19, 2003

Professional Ethics Begin on the College Campus

By CANDACE DE RUSSY

Does anyone doubt the need for heightened standards of ethics in all the professions in the United States today? In recent scandals, too many accountants, lawyers, bankers, security analysts, and corporate officers allowed self-interest and greed to trump longstanding principles of integrity. Those principles were set, and should have been maintained, by the professions themselves.

There has been plenty of blame cast, but little attention paid to one crucial factor: the role of higher

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