Institutions create their own internal cultures, including the culture of ethics that pervades scientific research, academic policy, and administrative philosophy. This paper addresses some of the issues involved in institutional enhancement of its culture of research ethics, focused on individual empowerment and strategies that individuals can use to initiate institutional change.In the pursuit of our core activities in higher education -teaching, research, and serviceethical infractions are antithetical to our values. However, reports of ethical infractions in higher education can be seen frequently in, for example, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts.The authors, representing a variety of academic disciplines, met during the 10th annual conference on Teaching Survival Skills and Ethics, sponsored by the University of
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