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Does Higher Education Make the Grade in Institution-Wide Ethics? National Survey Conducted by Bentley College's Center for Business Ethics Reveals Unexpected Results.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, September, 2004
Byline: Bentley College
WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bentley's Center for Business Ethics has conducted a first-of-its-kind national survey of how four-year colleges and universities manage ethics and compliance across their institutions - uncovering surprising trends. With over 450 schools responding, the survey found that 43 percent had an institution-wide ethics or compliance program, yet 79 percent thought they should have such a program.
The survey comes at a time when organizations are galvanized by corporate scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), and proposed amendments to the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines, causing many to assess their ethics and compliance programs with renewed focus on corporate governance and...
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