One of the rewarding and also demanding features of working at the Center is the opportunity for CSEP staff and faculty to explore a broad and rich mix of issues associated with professional activity. While some of our work places us in the traditional scholarly role of probing and detached observers, quite often we are also facilitators, convenors or collaborators. Engaging practicing professionals in dialogue or joining them as partners in research or education contributes to bridging the gap between academics and practitioners and also heightens our understanding of and appreciation for their view of the world. This cannot help but inform and improve the usefulness of our assessment of the moral dimension of professional practice. The following account of some recent and ongoing CSEP projects is illustrative of the range of issues and activities involving CSEP faculty and staff.

With a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council the Center will organize and conduct a series of workshops on ethical issues in health care for the elderly. The workshops will be held in community centers throughout Chicago and will involve educators from the disciplines of law, philosophy, religion, literature and anthropology and practitioners from the fields of nursing, medicine and allied health care professions. In addition to providing the elderly with an opportunity to share their views on critical life experiences, the project will help to establish a network of teachers, scholars and practitioners with a shared commitment to a humanistic approach to health care.

Two projects on science and secrecy both funded by the National Science Foundation and the first funded also by the National Endowment for the Humanities are underway at the Center. In collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the CSEP co-sponsored a March seminar in Chicago, which brought together representatives from the academy, the professional societies, government and business to examine the ethical and legal issues associated with openness and restrictions in scientific and technical communication. Papers presented at the seminar, which is one of several to be organized by the AAAS at other sites during 1984, will be part of a larger series to be published in Science, Technology and Human Values. The current PERSPECTIVES reflects this seminar.

In a second project on science and secrecy the Center will organize a 1985 research conference on the ethical implications of trade secrecy patents and related property controls for science and technology. The aim is to compare these control practices with respect to how they work to advance or inhibit research and how they influence the practice of science and the structure of our research institutions, while promoting or threatening certain values or interests of individual researchers and their institutions.

Invited review essays, case studies, and essays of ethical analysis will be presented at the conference. Scholars, research managers, scientists, engineers, and others interested in the project should contact the Center and ask for one of the two principal investigators on this grant. In the unsettling environment of divestiture, Illinois Bell contracted with the Center to organize and conduct a workshop on "Value Conflicts in Managerial Decision-Making" for middle and lower level managers. The two half-day sessions included presentations by Center staff on the dynamics of organizational behavior and the factors involved in moral decision-making. A series of case vignettes, based on interviews of employees by the workshop instructors and on feedback from the participants following the first session, were used to illuminate moral dilemmas in the workplace. The workshop is part of the Center's outreach program for business and industry.

At the request of two different professional groups involved in development and fund-raising activities, the Center organized two panels on the ethical issues associated with philanthropy. The panels at the December Great Lakes District Conference of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the April Conference on Managing Philanthropy sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives included development professionals, a representative from foundations and a CSEP staff member. The discussions focused on a set of cases prepared especially for the two panels, and at both meetings the Center distributed a bibliography of materials on ethics and philanthropy included among its library resources.

The Center is in the early stages of organizing a Chicago-area clergy ethics study group which will include scholars in professional ethics, clergy educators, practicing clergy and lay persons involved in church affairs. Several faiths and denominations will be represented. The group will assess issues of professional responsibility relevant to the clergy and explore various models or strategies for professional development. From the group's efforts will emerge an education and research agenda for further discussion and evaluation by a much larger number and wider range of participants.

Proceedings of the March, 1982 Conference, hosted in Chicago by CSEP under a grant from the EVIST program of the National Science

Foundation, are now available upon request. Produced under the editorial supervision of Vivian Weil, Director of the Conference, the volume bears the title of the Conference, Beyond Whistleblowing: Defining Engineers' Responsibilities. Included are revised versions of the refereed papers, commentators' replies, an introduction by the editor, and a bibliography.

Appearing in the order of presentation at the Conference, the papers focus on issues of individual moral choice for engineers and ethical aspects of institutional practices and public policy decisions which involve engineers. Topics covered include legal protection for whistleblowers, engineers' rights and responsibilities and their foundations, the implications of government regulation with respect to the responsibilities of engineers, ethical aspects of risk assessment and the use of cost-benefit analysis in decision making, creating an ethical work environment, and the responsibilities of professional societies. The volume also contains essays geared to teaching and to engineering education. These papers focus on a case history, engineering codes and moral theory, and the connection of engineering education and the workplace.

The editing and publication of the 334 page volume was made possible by the grant from the National Science Foundation. Information about obtaining copies for libraries, journals, or individuals can be obtained by writing Vivian Weil, CSEP, IIT Center, Chicago, IL 60616 or by calling CSEP at (312) 567-3017. Persons interested in learning more about any of these projects are invited to contact the Center.