Ethics Across The Curriculum: A Practical Workshop
During the last two weeks of July 1997 (July 21-29), IIT will be offering a workshop on how to integrate ethics into technical courses (anything from calculus to thermodynamics, from technical writing to genetics). The emphasis will be on practice, on what works in class and what doesn’t, not on theory. This workshop is similar to those we offered our own faculty 1991-93 and to faculty at other schools in 1994.

Our funding, which comes from the National Science Foundation, should pay for most reasonable expenses, plus $500 in stipend, on condition that your institution puts up another $1000. This condition has at least two purposes:

First, it is our way of assuring that your institution will want to get its money's worth out of you when you get back.

Second, the $1500 stipend should be large enough to make it financially possible for the faculty who consult, teach, or otherwise earn money during the summer to take ten days off in Chicago and devote significant time after they get back to working on ethics across the curriculum.

Attending the workshop commits you to: a) devoting seven days (full time) to the workshop (and related activities)-with a weekend off; b) integrating professional ethics into one of your technical courses in the fall by using what you prepared in the summer workshop; c) doing a course evaluation of that material; and d) writing a report describing what you did and what happened. You will not have "graduated" from the workshop until you have done all that. Once you have done all that, you will, we believe, be ready to help faculty at your institution integrate ethics into their technical courses.

To apply, you need only send us: a) a short letter describing your reasons for wanted to take the workshop, your background, an the courses you will be teaching next fall; b) a cv; and c) a letter of commitment from the appropriate administrator indicating that your institution will pay its share of the $1500 stipend if you are accepted. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997. We will have funds for no more than twenty faculty. So, don't delay. We will try to notify applicants by March 17. For more information, contact: Michael Davis, Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 W. 31st Street, Room 102, Stuart Building, Chicago, IL 60616-3793, ph. 312-567-3017, fx. 312-567-3016, e-mail csep@charlie.cns.iit.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of Research in Marketing on marketing ethics and consumer ethics is seeing manuscripts presenting empirical research, theoretical or conceptual analysis, or insightful literature reviews. Potential topics include ethical issues in strategic planning, methods for measuring ethics-related variables, ethics in personal selling, and ethics in advertising. Deadline for submission: January 30, 1998. Contact: Scott J. Vitell, School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677. Tel: 601-232-5468, Fax: 601-232-5821. E-mail: vitell@bus.olemiss.edu

CONFERENCES: Moral Education in a Diverse Society, a conference sponsored by the Kenan Ethics Program at Duke University, February 20-22, 1998, will consider both the means and ends of moral education. What should our goals be when we teach ethics—to refine students’ reasoning abilities, to inspire moral sensitivity and imagination, to foster virtues (and if so, which ones?), or to encourage civil engagement? How can we articulate and defend a vision of moral education in the face of moral, religious, political, and cultural differences and disagreements? How can case studies, literature, service-learning, or peer education be used to teach ethics? What helps young people to negotiate moral complexity and disagreement? How do we model a commitment to integrity and examined life? Is it appropriate for teachers to take a moral stand—and if so, when and how? Contact: Mindy Bankey, conference planner, Moral Education Conference, Kenan Ethics Program, Duke University, Box 90432, Durham, NC 27708, tel: 910-228-1602 or toll-free 888-226-4307.

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, February 26-28, 1998, Dallas Texas, will include: a keynote address “Ethical Systems and Public Policy: The National Bioethics Advisory Commission Experience” (Harold Shapiro, President, Princeton University); a “mini-conference” on Ethics in the Accounting Profession; the Fourth Annual Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl; and a conference sponsored by the Cary Maquire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, The Ethics Contract and other Promises. Contact: APPE, 410 north Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405; tel: 812-855-6450; fax: 812-855-3315; email: appe@indiana.edu

COURSES: Teaching the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project: A Model College Course, a faculty institute, will be held at Dartmouth College, over eight weeks during the summer of 1998. The course is designed to allow participants to collaborate with leading experts on the social implications of the HGP, to examine cutting-edge social issues in human genetic research, to learn skills of multi-disciplinary teaching, to acquire knowledge, material and support to teaching such a course successfully, and to experience a summer in one of New England’s classic college towns. To offset costs oat least partially, each participant will receive $2500 toward travel, room, and meals. Additional support from the participant’s home institution will be needed. Contact: Barbara J. Hillinger, 6031 Parker House, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755. Tel: 603-646-1263; fax: 603-646-2652; e-mail: Barbara.hillinger@dartmouth.edu

Ethics and Palliative Care, an Advanced European Bioethics Course, will be offered April 2-4, 1998, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Subjects include evolution of palliative care, ethics and pain management, limits of palliative care, futility of medical treatment, and palliative care and euthanasia. Contact: B. Gordijin, Ph.D. Catholic University of Nijmegen, 232 Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy, and History of Medicine, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Tel: 0031-24-3615320, Fax: 0031-24-3540254, e-mail: b.gordijn@efg.kun.nl

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions. Perspectives on the Professions is one of the means the Center has of achieving that purpose.

EDITOR: Michael Davis
MANAGING EDITOR: Rebecca Slaughter
EDITORIAL BOARD: David Beam, Robert F. Ladenson, Jing Li, Martin Malin, Ullica Segerstrale, Warren Schmaus
CSEP Director: Vivian Weil

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of CSEP or the Illinois Institute of Technology.