I would like to congratulate the center for its first decade, and wish them much success during the coming years.

During the past 18 months, the issue of ethics in the professions, and in particular, among investment bankers, has become a cause celebre. IIT is particularly fortunate in having a highquality scholarly center in place capable of studying the issue of ethics.

Professor Meyer Feldberg
President-Elect
Illinois Institute of Technology

Congratulations and best wishes on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the founding of The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Ten years ago it seemed to me, as one of the original members of the Steering Committee, that The Center would be fortunate to establish even a single new regular course. Now I note from the HT Bulletin that there are four courses regularly offered by faculty members associated with The Center. This is a fine achievement indeed. When coupled with the establishment of the Resource Center and the successful execution of a number of imaginative research projects, the totality of the Center's achievements soar beyond anything that could have been envisioned ten years ago. My hat is off to all who have labored so hard and so effectively on behalf of this splendid new jewel in the crown of IIT

Sidney A. Guralnick
Department of Civil
Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology

Both the Center and the regular mailing of PERSPECTIVES play a critical role in keeping the ethical issues of professional groups in clear focus. I look forward to the receipt of PERSPECTIVES, read it carefully within the first day or two, and inevitably circulate it to my colleagues and call particular attention to special articles for individual friends. I cannot say the same for ANY other professional journal or newsletter.

Although it has been a long time since I had the privilege of working with your students, the memory of that evening is still sharp. The group was especially interesting in its wide range of experience and perspectives which generated a lively series of discussions on the cases. And the experience with you and Vivian was stimulating enough that I came back here and worked on getting more material with ethical issues into our program, writing for that purpose, and sensitizing colleagues and students to the need for attention to ethics. Jeffrey Gandz, my colleague who had a similar experience with you, has just spent the summer putting together a module of cases and articles on ethical issues in business and both of us attribute a good part of our motivation to do so to our early experience with you and the regular reminder in the form of PERSPECTIVES.

Joseph D. Steffano
School of Business
Administration
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario

You are to be congratulated for maintaining the impressively steady flow of substantial contributions to the field of professional ethics which have come from IIT over the past decade. The many publications, workshops and conferences that the Center has sponsored have been of great value to me and to almost every other philosopher that I know with an interest in professional ethics. You and your colleagues have also made important contributions through your presentations at meetings around the country. And it is clear (even from a considerable distance in miles) that your program has made a lasting mark on IIT students as well as professionals and executives in the Chicago area who have had the good fortune to participate directly in your programs and courses.

Robert J. Baum
Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics in the Professsions
University of Florida

Let me congratulate you on your anniversary. Your work has proven immensely helpful to me, in two main ways:

First, though I do not teach ethics in science, technology, and engineering, I am regularly called upon to speak to those subjects at neighboring Virginia Military Institute. Your publications have been my primary resource.

Second, your PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROFESSIONS is more helpful than many similar publications because you are not narrowly confined to one profession. Keep up the good work, and best wishes for your second decade!

Louis W Hodges
Society and the Professions: Studies in Applied Ethics
Washington and Lee University

Thank you very much for sending me an invitation to write a tenth anniversary greeting to the Center. It comes as a particular pleasure because Ethics and Values Studies at NSF, formerly the EVIST program, is about the same age; I think we are growing up together and helping each other and the field to grow. I want to offer the Center particular congratulations for its work in the area of engineering ethics. I know that the results from one project NSF helped to support-the Second National Conference on Ethics in Engineering-have been of use to engineers and engineering societies, legal scholars, philosophers, managers and policy makers. Other Center projects have had equally beneficial results. The Center and PERSPECTIVES are helping to create a substantial network of persons and resources to study professional ethics and to provide a forum for lively discussion and debate. You have my best wishes for continued growth and progress.

Rochelle D. Hollander
National Science Foundation

We at the Center for Professional Ethics of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, are happy that you began your work ten years ago because your Center was one good example of what might be achieved by us here in Cleveland. We are both involved in a very important pursuit and we wish you well as one of the real pacesetters in the area of ethics and the professions.

Robert R Lawry and Robert W Clarke
The Center for Professional Ethics
Case Western Reserve University

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and the Illinois Institute of Technology where the Center has flourished for the past ten years deserve a great deal of applause.

The very pairing of the Center and IIT serves as benchmark. It demonstrates that universities should commit resources beyond programs to prepare professionals, that they can and should help practitioners and the public at large to understand the place of professions in society.

Society invests vast resources in the education of professionals and in the technologies and organizations essential for their work. Professionals can contribute vastly to the well-being of individuals and of society. As competency increases, awareness of other currents and interests in society may suffer. Skills can be mis-used and mis-applied. Practitioners can fail to realize social concerns and idealisms. The historic record is unfortunately quite mixed, for we have come to realize that the work of professionals yields both miracles and dangers.

During the span of ten years, the Center has organized many successful conferences, research programs, and study efforts dealing with broad issues of ethics and social responsibilities. Its interdisciplinary emphasis is outstanding.

Long may the Center's record of accomplishment continue to serve as standard. We look to its continued activities with pleasure and with anticipation.

Louis H. Orzack
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Congratulations and best wishes to CSEP! As the first librarian of the Center I had the privilege to observe the organization take root and to work with the many fine individuals connected with it. I hope that in its second decade the Center will continue its important mission.

Martin Pimsler
Chicago, IL

Ten years-tempus is fugiting! Happy anniversary, CSEP. You were the Midwestern pioneer in what has since become the applied ethics "movement" in the United States. May your leadership continue.

Pat Keleher
President, Educational Networks

Congratulations on your anniversary-may you celebrate many more in the essential service you render to humanity, culture, present society and the academic: as well as professional institutions. Your Center animated us at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus ever since 1980 to initiate an interdisciplinary program of courses on medical ethics, bioethics, ethics in engineering, professional ethics, and at present our Humanities Department is requested to expand the program to include other professions (social sciences, business, agriculture).

Under you guidance in the future we expect (i.e., the Arts and Sciences as well as Humanities Department) to establish a Research Center on the Philosophy-History of Science and Technology and Ethics in the Professions.

Thank you for your example and encouragement.

Elena Lugo,
Department of Humanities
University of Puerto Rico

We recognize the innovative leadership provided by the Institute in giving attention to the "ethical and social responsibility issues associated with professional practice." For many of us, your work has been a stimulus towards new research; for all of us, the Institute has been a constant source of insights and models useful in our thinking about various social issues of no mean importance. The Institute's wide-ranging interests are evident in its various publication and public education activities, and its reputation as getting at the real issues in these activities is well-deserved.

May the next decade bring the Institute ever greater success. As an enthusiastic institutional member of your wide professional and public following, Westminster Institute wishes you well.

Abbyann Lynch
Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values
Westminster College,
London, Canada

As one who has profited by your work, has used the CSEP Modules in Applied Ethics in my courses, and has been influenced by your institutional example, I congratulate you on ten years of pioneering effort.

Carl Mitcham
Philosophy & Technology Studies Center
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn

Your center has done good and useful work during its first decade, and we wish you many more decades of success.

James W. Nickel
The Center for the Study of Values and Social Policy
University of Colorado

Though we are often told that ethical issues have now become fashionable, those of us who actually work at it on a daily basis know that that is anything but true. The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions has done pioneering work in struggling to make the issues more visible, and to subject them to careful analysis in both public and professional education. The Center has played a unique role in bringing together people from a variety of professions, and is one of the important leaders in the field in America. The Hastings Center, one of the few colleagues that one can have as a Center in this country, is happy to send along its greetings to you.

Daniel Callahan
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

Those of us who are retreads from the industrial world view ten years of service as a very significant milestone. Things that are not well planned, appropriately researched, properly designed and effectively managed, just do not last for ten years. You and your associates at the Illinois Institute of Technology should be very proud.

Congratulations! Pause to savor the rich reward of your accomplishment, then get on with the next 10.

Alan B. Cooper
Department of Management
Wright State University

Congratulation to the Center for the Study of Ethics and the Professions for ten years of good work and leadership in a new field. Keep it up!

David H. Smith
The Poynter Center
Indiana University

On the tenth anniversary of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions let me take this opportunity to commend the work and leadership of the Center for its valued contributions during the past ten years. Illinois Institute of Technology has been a leader and well ahead of many who have attempted to address moral and ethical issues in a pluralistic society.

My connection with the Center has been especially meaningful because of the work of Dr. Mark Frankel, who has hosted the Chicago Clergy Ethics Study Group and provided leadership for this informal association interested in the study of applied ethics and the clergy.

David T. Stein
The Park Ridge Center
Park Ridge, IL

My heartiest congratulations to the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions for ten years of pioneering ethical reflection. Your kind of interdisciplinary efforts were as much needed when you began as they are now-they are vital. I hope that you share with me the conviction that the contributions you have made, now make, and intend to make, are not part of some passing fad measured in decades, but rather part of the timeless enterprise in the service of the professions and, in turn, of those they serve.

Arthur J. Dyck
Harvard University
The Divinity School

Please accept the best wishes of the Trinity Center for Ethics and Corporate Policy for the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions on its tenth anniversary. Through the leadership of its professional staff and the depth of its library resources, the Center has provided an important national service to persons working in ethics-in academics, business and the professions. Mark Frankel's direction has been especially helpful for our work.

David P Schmidt
Trinity Center of Ethics and Corporate Policy
Trinity Church, NY

Particularly in a society dominated by professionals and professionalism, what could be more important than a sustained and systematic examined of the ethical standards professionals use to guide their conduct. We applaud the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions for its contributions to this important area of study.

Donald M. Gillmor and Theodore L. Glasser
Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of Minnesota

Certainly professionals and those who deal with professionals (and that should include just about everybody I imagine) need to learn how to identify and then how to think about ethical issues in the professions. The Center has helped people to do this both inside and outside academe, both inside and outside the various professions, and in so doing it performs a valuable function.

David T Thackery
The Newberry Library
Chicago, IL