ABSTRACT
Action by an administrator suggests that a faculty member's ethical activism can matter. The key questions concerning ethical activism asked whether the respondents had discussed complaints with the accused faculty member and whether they had ever broached their ethical concerns an administrative officer. Male faculty members are significantly more likely to take the course of action with an accused colleague the longer they have served in the profession or the higher their academic rank. It is one thing to listen to students or colleagues as they share their concerns or complaints about other faculty members; it is another for a professor to pursue the matter with an accused person. Measures of the respondents' level of concern about ethical issues and level of familiarity with their institutions' policies on ethics were excluded from the discriminant analysis because they were subjective attitudinal variables rather than objectively reported demographic and professional characteristics.
