Phone: 217-333-1416
Email: gunsalus@illinois.edu
J.D. University of Illinois
Courses
Negotiations
CFI (Counseling, Fact Investigation and Legal Interviewing)
Vita
Publications
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A nationally-recognized expert on matters of research integrity, whistleblowing, ethics, and professionalism in academia, Professor Gunsalus also serves as Special Counsel in the Office of University Counsel and teaches in the Colleges of Law, Medicine and Business. She is a member of the State of Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.
At the law school, she teaches courses in negotiation and client interviewing/counseling; in the College of Medicine, she is a member of the faculty of the Medical Humanities/Social Sciences program and teaches communication, conflict resolution skills and ethics. In the College of Business, she teaches a core course on Leadership and Ethics in the MBA program and in the Executive Education Program.
Her book on survival skills for academic leaders, The College Administrator's Survival Guide was published by the Harvard University Press (2006). She is under contract with the Press for a book on research ethics.
Professor Gunsalus teams up with Professor Steve Beckett, the League of Women Voters, and law students enrolled in Fundamentals of Trial Practice, to produce the Champaign County Courtwatching Report. The law students, along with the League of Women Voters' standing corps of courtroom observers, provide more than 1,300 hours of Champaign County courtroom proceedings. Professor Gunsalus directs the aggregating and analyzing of the data for statistical significance. During the last four years, the Courtwatching Report has revealed several significant trends in the Champaign County courts, specifically regarding the demographic, ethnic, and gender makeup of jury pools and the recommendations have provided concrete suggestions involving courtroom proceedings, jury selection, and courtroom functions that have resulted in several initiatives to examine possible explanations and the implementation of improvements to produce more representative juries. The release of the Courtwatching Report at a press conference in the Jury Selection Room at the Champaign County Courthouse garnered significant local and regional media attention.
You can access the Champaign Courtwatching Reports here...
Professor Gunsalus has extensive national service on government and NGO commissions and is in demand as a speaker nationally. She served on the Committee on Research Integrity of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable Ad Hoc Group on Conflict of Interest. She was a member of the United States Commission on Research Integrity and served for four years as chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. In 2004, she was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in recognition of her "sustained contributions to the national debate over improving the practical handling of ethical, legal, professional and administrative issues as they affect scientific research." In 2005, she was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism. In 2006, she received an NSF grant with Professor Michel Loui of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to develop and assess the efficacy of simulations/role role play scenarios in teaching the responsible conduct of research and research ethics.
At the College of Law, Professor Gunsalus focuses her research interests on the intersections of professionalism, problem-solving and workplace conflict, especially around ethical dilemmas. She has become interested in how communication skills affect ethical compliance and effective organizations.
Before coming to the College of Law, Professor Gunsalus served in a variety of campus-level administrative positions, including as Associate Provost, at the University of Illinois. In those positions, her responsibilities included oversight of the discrimination and harassment grievance procedure, problem personnel cases, membership on the workplace violence team, technology transfer and intellectual property, management of conflicts of interest, human subject protection, and long-term service as the campus Research Standards Officer with responsibility for responding to allegations of professional misconduct by faculty and students. Prior to moving to campus administration, Professor Gunsalus worked for ten years at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Gunsalus's selected articles and publications:
The College Administrator's Survival Guide
Basic Guidelines for Handling Complaints
Nanny State/Human Subject Protection Policy
Two papers on whistleblowing
NBAC Commissioned Paper on IRB Policy
The Illinois White Paper: Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB "Mission Creep"
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