Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Ph.D., regularly taught child development and professional ethics and ethical leadership classes in her 35 years as a university professor. She was also the Director of the Center for the Teaching Integrity at Ball State University, where she is the Voran Honored Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Emerita). She also taught at California State University, Northridge, where she was awarded the California State Trustee's Award for Outstanding Professor across all state university campuses and disciplines. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award from the American Psychological Foundation and was a Visiting Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital, at Harvard Medical School. She served as President of the Western Psychological Association and as President of the Division of Teaching Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Keith-Spiegel’s work on social justice, dishonesty, moral hazards, and irresponsible behavior in organizations resulted in three federally-funded grant projects from the Office of Research Integrity, the National Institutes of Health, and the Fund for Improvement in Postsecondary Education. She served two terms as Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association.
