Systems erosion of professional autonomy and dignity.

Deanna, the checklist for this exercise represents an ideal for a time that in many ways does not exist any longer.  What continues is the need for ethical behavior on the part of both professor and students.  Let's call this basic behavior mutual respect.  Students respect teachers; teachers respect students.  Of course, the teachers also have an obligation to follow company policies.  What discontinues, however, is teacher control over curriculum and course design and teaching methods.  More and more these are imposed top-down in a factory-style approach to learning.  There is less and less room for the teacher to customize anything, other than individual responses within the greater system of demands coming down on us.  In short, professional autonomy is eroding in education.  The same is happening in medicine.  Doctors now must get permission from insurance company secretaries before ordering needed patient procedures.  You get the idea. We work in systms; we must also factor the nature of the system into what we can and cannot do as we "spell out" teacher, faculty, professor duties, ethics.  This is one of the objections, of course, to so-called Common Core.  It standardizes factory style with precious "wiggle room" for creative professional design by the educator. How long this trend continues to grow will be interesting to observe.  Thanks. Dr. Rux