Verification and Trust: Background Investigations Preceding Faculty Appointment

Titel	Verification and Trust: Background Investigations Preceding Faculty Appointment
Quelle	In: Academe, 90 (2004) 6, S.79-81 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2946
Schlagwörter	Trust (Psychology); Court Litigation; Information Dissemination; College Faculty; Personnel Selection; Databases + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; Informationsverbreitung; Fakultät; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Datenbank
Abstract	Many employers in the United States have been initiating or expanding policies requiring background checks of prospective employees. The ability to perform such checks has been abetted by the growth of computerized databases and of commercial enterprises that facilitate access to personal information. Employers now have ready access to public information that had heretofore been difficult to collect without an expenditure of considerable effort and money--criminal records, litigation history, worker-compensation claims, marriage records, bankruptcy liens, court judgments, and more. They also have ready access to private information--credit-card history, airline use, certain telephone records, bank-account histories, pharmacy records, and even records of medical visits. The ready availability of these data creates the serious possibility of promiscuous, unfair, and perhaps even abusive investigations, and yet access to these data is subject to few legal limits.1 Systematic inquiry into such personal information is nevertheless commonly understood to constitute a serious and harmful intrusion upon an individual's privacy. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Association of University Professors, 1012 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005-3465. Tel: 202-737-5900; Fax: 202-737-5526; e-mail: academe@aaup.org.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10