Student Income and Ethics
March 3rd, 2007 by get a first class degree
I was reading a post on College Startup regarding the ethics of using student generated material to earn money!
In case you are wondering what I mean by this, consider this blog. I try to provide objective information regarding degree’s, and try to encourage ethical behaviour amongst students.
That said, the site carries advertising which I have limited control over, so, the adwords that appear on this site sometimes conflict with my own ethics.
For example there are occasionally advertisements for “essay writing services” which are aimed at people trying to cheat on their course.
If I had higher ethical standards I would not run advertising, however this site loses money and I would like it to at least break even in terms of hosting costs, so, I sold out to Google Adsense … sorry!
The specific question posed on College Startup is:
In my oppinion, no. There are a number of Universities that run successful blogs without carrying advertising. There are no costs involved for the University (as they use existing servers) and students contribute because they want to, meaning the quality of content is good.
Simillary I run this site because I want to, not because it earns money (which it doesnt).
So, if the author of College Startup thinks a University blog would benefit students, they should help their University set one up and see what happens.
If it is successful they could slip some adsense code into the odd post to make things a little more interesting 
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