Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Moral Ethics

What aught I to do? and what is my responsibility? These two questions are vital in ethical arena for they need right or wrong and good or bad judgement and the creteria of soch judgment should be clearly justified. The end result of making decision based on the above questions is the moral judgment. Moral judgment is needed in most cases when someone faces moral dillemas.

Student affairs professionals need to be people of moral ethics for their daily decision making and in order to instill integrity to students who are in preparatory process of being national leaders. If we can successifully be good examples in the issue of ethics at higher educational institutions the aftermath will be the great change to the entire society.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Religious-Spirituality and Student Affairs

We live in at the age whereby life is demanding too much; there a lot of complicated issues facing people on their daily basic activities. Reserch has shown that there is a need of student affairs administrators to work with collegious who are religious-spiritual (NASPA Journal, Vol. 41. no. 4, Summer 2004). Student affairs professional with religious-Spirituality aspects view students as unique beings created by God in His own Image.
Spiritual aspect is very important for students at higher educational institution because it helps students to have sound moral judgment in every thing he or she want to do. As we prepare young people for higher responsibilities moral behavior and action are good ingrediants for a worker. Curricular specialist should come up with with the new way of intergrating spiritual matters in academic endeavour.