Publications for Centers
Colloquium Monographs
- Developing Relationships: How Ethics
Centers Can Succeed with Raising Funds - Buy-in: Everything but Money!
- Mission, Vision and Strategic Planning
- Benchmarks of Ethics Center Excellence
- Identifying Funding
Sources for
Ethics Centers - Ethics Centers and Conflict of Interest
Especially for Ethics Centers
The Association has more than 150 ethics centers and other institutional groups as members of the Association. Click Institutional Members for a current list of Institutional Members along with links to their websites. For further information on joining the Association as a Center Member, click Aims of the Association . If you wish to apply for membership, please complete a membership application form (available here in PDF format, which requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader) and forward with your payment to the Association.
Resources for Centers
The Association provides a number of resources for ethics centers and their directors. It holds an Ethics Center Colloquium each year as part of its Annual Meeting. Further description of the colloquium and the topics addressed are outlined below.
For university ethics center undergoing a university review, the Association can suggest experienced center directors to serve as the outside member of the review. For ethics center directors who wish to do an internal review of their center, the Association is available to consult and assemble a review team of experienced center directors for a center visit. The Association is also developing a program to provide center directors with coaching on starting or developing a center. Further description of these programs is provided below. Contact Brian Schrag, the Executive Secretary, for further details or discussion of any of these services.
Publications
Each year the Association publishes Profiles in Ethics, free to all Center Members, which is a guide to member centers and provides a quick overview of each center's mission and focus. Additional copies are available at cost from the Association. The Association also publishes monographs of proceedings from the Ethics Center Colloquium, also free to Center Members and available to others at cost.
The Ethics Center Colloquium
To promote networking among Centers and a forum for sharing ideas, the Association has, from the beginning, held an Ethics Center Colloquium at the Annual Meeting to provide special programming for Center Directors. There are usually sixty to eighty Ethics Center Directors in attendance. The Colloquium provides an opportunity for Ethics Center Directors to meet and share ideas, problems, and solutions. For those thinking of starting an ethics center, it is also an opportunity to meet Center Directors and develop a network. The current Convenor of the Colloquium is Aine Donovan, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Applied Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College. Topics of the Colloquium or titles of presentations over the years have included:
Topics of the Colloquium or titles of presentations over the years have included:
1. Is There an Ethics Center in Your Future? Considerations in Starting an Ethics Center
2. Issues in Ethics Institute Leadership
“Our Theoretical Basis: How to Establish Credibility of Our Work”
“Problems in Process: Organizational Structure, Funding, Successful Activities, Participants”
“The Public Role of an Ethics Center: How Do We Increase the Impact of Our Work Now and Into the Next Century?”
3. Innovative Projects of Ethics Centers: Center Development and Outreach
“Getting Ethics Downtown”
“WWW Ethics Center for Engineering Ethics”
“Illinois Institute of Technology's On-Line Ethics Codes Project”
“Ethics Education in Corporations: An Opportunity for Collaboration?”
“Opportunities for Funding: National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education”
4. Acquiring Resources and Defining a Mission
“The Board Member Perspective”
“Building a Center of Distinction”
“Advisory Boards That Give More than Advice”
“The Intersection Between Media Ethics and Law: Mission Impossible?”
“Trying to Bridge the Gap Between "B" Schools, Humanities Faculties, and a Local Business Community.”
“Going public: Defining a Mission that Extends Beyond the Academy" Knowing What Your Mission is, Makes Life Easier--Not Easy, but Easier”
5. Starting and Growing an Ethics Center
“Nurturing the University-Ethics Center Relationship”
“Linking the Ethics Center to Business and Professional Schools”
“Starting an Ethics Center”
“Using Ethics Across the Curriculum to Promote Undergraduate Moral and Civic Responsibility”
6. Ethics Centers and the Academic Program
“Why Create an Advanced Degree Program?”
“How to Structure a Degree Program in Practical Ethics and What to Include”
“Maintaining the Center's Relationship with Departments: A Marriage or What?”
7. The Role of Publications in the Ethics Center's Life
8. Mistakes and Successes in Running an Ethics Center
9. Centers and Social Activism
“A Center's Commitment to Justice”
“Making a Difference: The Activist Role of Ethics Centers”
“Educating for Social Action”
10. Strategic Planning for Ethics Centers
“Why Strategic Planning in Ethics Centers is More Important than Ever”
“Choosing Strategic Objectives in Invigorating a Center”
“Bipolar Planning: A Cautionary Tale”
“Advisory Boards: Their Risks and Benefits”
“Staffing and Programming on a Budget: The Virtues of Collaboration for a Small Ethics Center”
“Speaking of Ethics: Building Dialogue with the Business Community”
“Launching an Overly Ambitious Ethics Program on a Non-Traditional Campus”
11. Benchmarks of Ethics Center Excellence
“Mission Excellence”
“Programming Excellence”
“Funding Strength”
“Excellence in Collaboration, Board Excellence”
“Staff Excellence”
12. Identifying Funding Sources for Ethics Centers
“Funding an Ethics Center”
“What Grant Money Is There for Ethics and How to Compete for It”
“Building Links to Regional Corporations and Organizations”
“Creating Revenue by Selling Ethics Education and Consulting Services”
13. Ethics Centers and Conflict of Interest
“Conflicts of Interest at Ethics Centers: A Primer”
“Indirect Benefits, Conflicts of Interest, and Problems with Disclosure Policies”
“Eek! They're Everywhere: Ethics Centers, Ethics Consulting and Conflicts of Interest”
“In Jeopardy: Where are Conflicts of Interest? They are Everywhere, but that's OK”
14. Mission, Vision and Strategic Planning 2006
“Mission as the Guiding Force in Creating and Sustaining an Ethics Center”
“The Strategic Planning Process and its Product”
“How Strategic Planning Helps an Ethics Center”
15. Buy-in: Everything but Money!
“A Fledgling Center’s Three Methods for Faculty and Administration Buy-in”
“Buy-in through Events Co-sponsored with Various Divisions”
“Ethics Across the Curriculum: Inclusive Planning”
“Cultivating Constituents On and Off Campus”
16. Developing Relationships: How Ethics Centers Can Succeed with Raising Funds
“Developing Relationships: How Ethics Centers Can Succeed with Raising Funds”
“On the Growth of Ethics Programs”
“The Practicalities of Funding Your Ethics Center”
Colloquium Monographs
For the past five years, the Association has published the proceedings of the Ethics Center Colloquium. Each year’s issue is free to Center Members for that year. The monographs, available from the Association, are previewed below. Click here for Order form which requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader
Developing Relationships: How Ethics Centers Can Succeed with Raising Funds 2008
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Introduction The Association’s Sixteenth Annual Ethics Center Colloquium, “Developing Relationships: How Ethics Centers Can Succeed with Raising Funds,” was convened by Aine Donovan, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College. It was designed as a sequel to last year’s Colloquium, “Buy-in: Everything but Money!” This monograph includes three essays drawn from the colloquium. I want to acknowledge Glenda Murray for applying her editing skills to this set of essays. It is the Association’s extraordinarily good fortune to number among its members the three presenters in this year’s colloquium whose background and talent are so well-suited for this topic. Stuart D. Yoak is the Executive Director, Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Washington University. He is a philosopher with the unusual experience of having spent five years as director of Foundation Relations in the Alumni Development Office at Washington University. Kenneth W. Goodman, Co-Director, Ethics Programs, University of Miami, directs one of the most collaborative ethics centers in the Association with extremely rich programming, which has recently received a million dollar gift from a private donor in recognition and support of its work. James D. Yunker, President and CEO of Smith Beers Yunker & Company, Inc. with branches in the United States and the United Kingdom, provides fundraising services for nonprofit organizations. His doctoral work focused on “why people give.” In “Developing Relationships: How Ethics Centers Succeed with Fundraising,” Stuart D. Yoak stresses that the key to successful fundraising requires that one recognize the importance of careful strategic planning and systematically carrying out that plan. That strategic plan must include building and sustaining relationships with faculty and students, administrators, and the institution’s development office. Yoak provides valuable insights on how development offices work and how the ethics center can use that understanding in its fundraising efforts. He differentiates the approaches used for individual donors, corporations and foundations and for annual giving, capital campaigns, major gifts and planned giving. Finally, he provides helpful insights in building and sustaining donor relations, including identification of donor prospects, and the cultivation, solicitation, acknowledgement and sustaining of those relationships. Kenneth Goodman, in his essay, “On the Growth of Ethics Programs,” explicates the senses in which an ethics center’s mission and activity can both manifest and contribute to the highest mission of the university and, as such, why they can make a case for the university’s support. He makes the case for why those same qualities of a center can be attractive to donors. Goodman underscores what ethics centers need to do to merit that support from both the university and outside donors and stresses particularly the need to maintain intellectual credibility in all that they do. “The Practicalities of Funding Your Ethics Center,” is the focus of James Yunker’s remarks. He provides some perspective on the sources of gifts and stresses that individuals are overwhelmingly the single most important source of gifts in the United States. He discusses how to develop a compelling case for persuading individuals to give to the ethics center. He then discusses fundamental rules for cultivating individual donors and identifies some of the ethical principles to observe in the fundraising process. Introduction “Buy-in: Everything but Money!” was the focus of the Association’s Fifteenth Annual Ethics Center Colloquium. David Ozar, Loyola University of Chicago, organized and convened the colloquium and we wish to thank him for his outstanding organization of the colloquium. I also want to thank Glenda Murray of the Poynter Center for her careful editing of the essays in this series. Someone recently asked how the Association came to include ethics centers as part of the membership of the Association and the Ethics Center Colloquium as part of the Annual Meeting. The suggestion was that the connection between ethics centers and the concerns and mission of the Association was purely contingent. I was surprised by the question. As the essays in this monograph will illustrate, ethics centers, particularly at academic institutions, are frequently a major stimulus on campus and in the broader community. Ethics Centers can focus scholarly and educational effort on practical and professional ethics and serve as a resource for faculty across disciplines and professions for scholarship and teaching in practical ethics. One might think that this year’s theme of getting “buy-in” from the center’s constituents can be an issue for new centers, but is limited to them. However, for an established center, there is a temptation and a danger in thinking that their longevity ensures their visibility and awareness in the minds of their constituents and hence that the center already has and continues to have “buy-in” from those constituents. But campuses are dynamic. Faculty and administrators are constantly joining and leaving the institution or taking on new responsibilities within the organization. New faculty and administrators may have no awareness of the center and its mission or how it might serve as a resource for them or their programs or the university mission. Hence the process of “Buy-in” needs to be continually renewed. Sometime a center refocuses its mission and that too requires “buy-in.” These points are illustrated in the very practical essays below by four ethics center directors. Susan Poser , Director, Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, illustrates the latter point in her essay, “A Fledgling Center’s Three Strategies for Faculty and Administration Buy-in.” Her center, in existence since 1985, decided to refocus its mission. The center did so by soliciting input from distinguished faculty and administrators and using that to shape a mission that matched the current needs of departments, faculty and administration for help in practical and professional ethics education. In this essay she discusses three strategies she found successful for obtaining buy-in from the center’s constituents while reshaping the center’s mission. In “Buy-in Through Events Co-Sponsored with Various Divisions,” Keith Goree, Director, the Applied Ethics Institute, St. Petersburg College, describes how his college’s long running ethics program and their more recent Applied Ethics Institute overcame a long history of faculty resistance to the ethics program by building strong bridges and partnerships with other academic programs, at relatively low cost. The vehicle used to achieve this was the ethics forum, which he describes in some detail. Goree also identifies other collaborative projects which have created partnerships outside the college with the county school system, the library, and the county family services center. All of his ideas are easily portable to other centers. The twenty year history of Utah Valley State College’s highly successful Ethics Across the Curriculum program is discussed by Elaine Englehardt, Professor of Philosophy in “Ethics Across the Curriculum: Inclusive Planning,” as an illustration of the use of education to gain faculty and student buy-in for the program. She discusses the role that conferences, workshops, summer seminars, the use of web sites, educational television, radio broadcasts and writing of case studies in ethics by faculty in various disciplines has played in strengthening the commitment of faculty and administration to the teaching of ethics across disciplines. She also indicates the level of support required to sustain this initiative. Daniel E.Wueste, Director, Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics, Clemson University, in “Cultivating Constituents On and Off Campus,” illustrates with a number of remarkable cases how developing and maintaining relationships grounded in shared interests and commitment can go quite far in establishing buy-in that manifests itself in active support. Thus the center’s work with faculty in ethics across the curriculum workshops created a level of buy-in that provided the support needed to include ethical judgment as a distributed competency in the university’s new general education curriculum. As he says “one thing leads to another”; in this case buy-in leads to projects which increase and expand buy-in, both on and off campus. He also reminds us that sometimes the ethics center need not necessarily be the driver of an ethics initiative but simply alert enough and nimble enough to jump on a train that has already left the station as illustrated by the center’s work with a university initiative on undergraduate research. Wueste’s lessons can be used with profit by other centers. Introduction The theme of the Association’s Thirteenth Annual Ethics Center Colloquium was “ Mission, Vision and Strategic Planning.” David Ozar, Director of the Center for Ethics and Social Justice, Loyola University of Chicago, organized and convened the Colloquium. In this monograph, three seasoned center administrators share their views on this process. In “ Mission as the Guiding Force in Creating and Sustaining an Ethics Center,” Aine Donovan, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College makes the case for a clearly articulated mission statement. She distinguishes between visionary and strategic senses of mission; discusses the development of a center mission statement and (in the case of a college or university center), its relationship to the larger mission of the university and the evaluation of the mission statement. Carol Roup , Associate Director, Center for Ethics and Social Justice, Loyola University Chicago in her piece “The Strategic Planning Process and its Product,” provides a detailed “How To” map for the strategic planning process and product. She provides a level of detail and clear explication of the process at a level of practicality that will be very useful for directors. She discusses the nature of strategic planning, reasons for strategic planning and the need for developing a “plan” for the planning process itself. She then discusses in detail five stages of the planning process and the benefits of each stage as well as the benefits of the final strategic plan and the planning experience. Elizabeth Kiss , Director, Kenan Institute of Ethics, Duke University reflects in “How Strategic Planning Helps an Ethics Center,” on the seven ways the strategic planning can help an ethics center. She then offers words of advice on the buy-in from stakeholders; managing expectations; and sharing, using and marketing the strategic plan. This monograph is available for $4. Introduction
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Buy-in: Everything but Money!, 2007
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Mission, Vision and Strategic Planning, 2006
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Ethics Centers and Conflict of Interest, 2005
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"Ethics Centers and Conflict of Interest" was the theme of the Association's Twelfth Annual Ethics Center Colloquium at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. This year's Colloquium was convened by David T. Ozar, Director, Center for Ethics and Social Justice, Loyola University of Chicago. We wish to thank him for his excellent work in organizing the Colloquium.
The Monograph includes "Conflicts of Interest at Ethics Centers: A Primer"; "Indirect Benefits, Conflicts of Interest, and Problems with Disclosure Policies"; "Eek! They're Everywhere: Ethics Centers, Ethics Consulting and Conflicts of Interest"; and "In Jeopardy: Where are Conflicts of Interest? They are Everywhere, but that's OK".
Michael Davis, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, sets the stage for the Colloquium with his essay, "Conflict of Interest at Ethics Centers: A Primer." Davis is the co-author of a volume on conflict of interest in the Association's Practical and Professional Series. (Michael Davis and Andrew Stark, Eds., Conflict of Interest in the Professions, Oxford University Press, 2001.) In his essay, Davis sets out with great clarity a definition of conflict of interest and discusses some of the ethical problems raised by such conflict, ways of dealing with conflict of interest, including escape, disclosure and managing such conflicts. He makes important distinctions between political, actual, and apparent conflict of interest. Davis illustrates these points with examples drawn from ethics centers.
In "Indirect Benefits, Conflicts of Interest and Problems with Disclosure Policies," Lisa S. Parker, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh, extends Davis' discussion by reflecting on her own center's efforts to work out a policy of disclosure to address conflict of interest. She draws candidly on discussions by her center colleagues as they attempted to work out a practical policy. She relates, as well, the scholarly research on effects of a disclosure policy on a center and its members. Parker notes a distinction between conflict of interest arising from external funding and that arising from internal sources. She reports on the growing concern at her center on the silencing effects of internal conflict of interest on ethicists' judgment regarding identification of issues of ethical concern, scholarly work done in such areas, and actual positions taken on those issues.
Christopher Meyers, Director, Kegley Institute of Ethics, California State University, Bakersfield, discusses why ethics centers face conflicts of interest in his essay, "Eek! They're Everywhere: Ethics Centers, Ethics Consulting and Conflicts of Interest." He suggests that it is because there is no clear consensus on the role of ethics centers and because ethics consulting is often in the mix of the center activities. Meyers argues that a central consulting function of ethics centers is to assist clients in making better ethical choices as well as creating institutional conditions more conducive to making sound ethical choices. That requires that the consultant gain an "insider" perspective of the client's situation, yet maintain critical distance, while being paid directly or indirectly for the consulting. Hence, he argues, conflict of interest is embedded in the ethics center's consulting activity. Meyers suggests several ways for a center to manage conflict of interest.
In his essay, "In Jeopardy: Where are Conflicts of Interest? They are Everywhere but That's OK," Arthur Zucker, Director, Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, Ohio University, focuses particularly on university ethics centers with a mission to promote reasoned discussion of controversial topics. He argues that whether pursuit of that mission can be judged to result in conflict of interest requires judging the motives for the center's actions. To assess such conflicts he offers an analysis of conflict of interest that draws on Harry Frankfurt's distinction between first and second order desires.
Identifying Funding Sources for Ethics Centers, 2004
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Introduction
Brian Schrag, Executive Secretary
This Monograph includes four essays by ethics center directors, originally presented at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Association. The topics addressed include: "Funding an Ethics Center", "What Grant Money Is There for Ethics and How to Compete for It", Building Links to Regional Corporations and Organizations", and "Creating Revenue by Selling Ethics Education and Consulting Services."
The 2004 Ethics Center Colloquium marks the eleventh year for the Association's Ethics Center Colloquium at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. The Colloquium, usually attended by 60-80 ethics center directors, provides a rich forum for the exchange of ideas and concerns of directors of ethics centers and those considering the start up of a center.
This year's Colloquium was no exception. "Identifying Funding Sources for Ethics Centers" was convened by David T. Ozar and appropriately revisits a theme that the Colloquium has addressed over the years. Few topics are, understandably, of more concern to ethics centers.
This Colloquium draws on presenters from medium and larger public and private universities in larger metropolitan areas. Although that perspective may somewhat limit its usefulness to centers at small colleges and universities in smaller cities, there is much that any center director can glean from the presentations in this Colloquium.
Kirk O. Hanson directs the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, one of the centers at the upper end in terms of the size of its operating budget. That center has not always been so well funded, and Hanson provides a useful historical perspective on the development of such a center. He also provides a useful thorough checklist of funding sources. Hanson sketches one account of stages of center development and suggests a unique insight on the relation of the stages of center development to appropriate funding sources. Not all centers may recognize their stages of development in this account, but since he links development to changes in mission, centers with different missions will still profit from his observations.
Lawrence M. Hinman, director of the Values Institute at the University of San Diego, shares sage general advice for directors as they search for funding sources as well as more specific advice on identifying funding sources and developing relationships which can maximize chances of success in grant acquisitions.
The last two presenters focus on more specific ways of generating center income. Richard H. Toenjes of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, illustrates how the building of long term relationships with local and regional institutions by serving their educational needs can lead to funding support for the center. David T. Ozar, Director of Loyola University of Chicago's Center for Ethics and Social Justice, provides a candid look at the challenges of developing center revenue by offering ethics consulting services to local institutions.
Table of Contents
"Funding an Ethics Center"
Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
"What Grant Money Is There for Ethics and How to Compete for It"
Lawrence M. Hinman, Director, The Values Institute, University of San Diego
"Building Links to Regional Corporations and Organizations"
Richard H. Toenjes, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"Creating Revenue by Selling Ethics Education and Consulting Services"
David Ozar, Director, Center for Ethics and Social Justice, Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago
Benchmarks of Ethics Center Excellence, 2003
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Introduction
Brian Schrag, Executive Secretary
This monograph includes the remarks of twelve ethics center directors presented at the Ethics Center Colloquium at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Association. Topics addressed include: "Mission Excellence of a Center", "Programming Excellence;" "Funding Strength", "Collaboration", "Board Member Selection", and "Staffing Excellence."
Ethics centers in the United States began to appear about thirty years ago. Since that time we have seen a surprisingly rapid multiplication of ethics centers. The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics membership currently includes over 100 ethics centers in the United States and abroad. These centers are richly diverse. Many centers are associated with universities; some are freestanding. Some focus on a single profession; others focus across professions. Some aim mainly at internal constituents; others serve primarily external constituents. Ethics centers have been in existence long enough that we can now observe ethics centers at all stages of development; there is, if you will, a kind of laboratory of ecological succession in the development of ethics centers. Centers have also existed long enough that they are now experiencing a need for some kind of internal or external evaluation. The first generation of center directors is now retiring. Many of these directors have long track records and much accumulated wisdom regarding the start up and nurturing of ethics centers. There are, at the same time, new directors eager to tap the experience of the first generation of center directors. All this points to a need for more systematic sharing of what can be learned from previous experience and guidance for more systematic evaluation of ethics centers. This monograph is an initial step in efforts to address these needs.
Each year, as part of its Annual Meeting, the Association organizes a half-day Ethics Center Colloquium for ethics center directors and those interested in developing centers. The aim is to provide directors with an opportunity to share common concerns, ideas and wisdom regarding ethics center operation.
This past year, at the Ethics Center Colloquium, I invited seasoned directors of twelve ethics centers to share their perspective and experience on some benchmarks of ethics center excellence. The benchmarks included excellence in mission, programming, funding strength, collaborative efforts, board excellence, and staffing. These benchmarks are not an exhaustive set but they are essential to center excellence. For each topic, a director of a center at a large institution was paired with a director at a smaller institution. In their observations one will find specific ideas on developing a mission statement, programming ideas, values of collaborative effort, advice on board development and the importance of staff development. One will find suggestions for relatively untapped opportunities; local radio and television resources may be underutilized by most centers, for example. One will also note how these areas are interrelated. Clarity of mission affects staffing excellence; funding strength can affect both mission and programming; collaborative efforts and board development can, in turn, affect funding.
Every center has its own story; there are no simple or uniform recipes for developing an ethics center or maintaining its excellence. Nevertheless, there is a great deal of transferable wisdom in the experiences of these centers and directors.
Table of Contents
Mission Excellence
"Developing the Mission Statement"
Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Director, Dr. James Dale Ethics Center, Youngstown State University
"Mission: the Tip of the Iceberg"
John R. Wilcox, Vice President for Mission, Acting Director, Center for Professional Ethics, Manhattan College
Programming Excellence
"Integrating Ethics across the Curriculum"
Lawrence M. Hinman, Director, The Values Institute, University of San Diego
"Programming Excellence"
Marc Marenco, Director, Pacific Institute for Ethics and Social Policy, Pacific University
Funding Strength
"Funding Strength"
Bruce Green, Director, Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, Fordham University School of Law
"Beg, Borrow and Ask Nicely: Funding a Small Ethics Center"
Christopher Meyers, Director, Kegley Institute of Ethics, California State University, Bakersfield
Excellence in Collaboration
"Excellence in Collaboration"
Aine Donovan, Executive Director, and Ronald M. Green, Director, Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College
"Excellence in Collaboration"
David R. Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley State College
Board Excellence
"Board Excellence"
David T. Ozar, Director, Center for Ethics and Social Justice, Loyola University of Chicago
"Board Excellence in Ethics Center in Smaller Academic Institutions"
Philip A. Muntzel, Director, Center for Ethics and Public Life, King's College
Staff Excellence
"Staffing Excellence in Ethics Centers"
James DuBois, PhD Program Director, Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University
"Staffing Excellence in Ethics Centers"
David H. Smith, Director, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Monographs Available for Purchase
- Developing Relationships: How Ethics Centers Can Succeed with Raising Funds 2008 -- The Monograph includes "Developing Relationships: How Ethics Centers Can Succeed with Raising Funds", "On the Growth of Ethics Programs" and "The Practicalities of Funding Your Ethics Center."
Available for $5.00 each.
- Buy-in: Everything but Money! 2007 -- The Monograph includes "A Fledgling Center's Three Methods for Faculty and Administration Buy-in", "Ethics Across the Curriculum: Inclusive Planning" and "Cultivating Constituents On and Off Campus."
Available for $5.00 each.
- Mission, Vision, and Strategic Planning 2006 -- The Monograph includes "Mission as the Guiding Force in Creating and Sustaining an Ethics Center", "The Strategic Planning Process and Its Product" and "How Strategic Planning Helps an Ethics Center."
Available for $5.00 each.
- Ethics Centers and Conflict of Interest 2005 -- The Monograph includes "Conflicts of Interest at Ethics Centers: A Primer", "Indirect Benefits, Conflicts of Interest, and Problems with Disclosure Policies", "Eek! They're Everywhere: Ethics Centers, Ethics Consulting and Conflicts of Interest", and "In Jeopardy: Where are Conflicts of Interest? They are Everywhere, but that's OK."
Available for $5.00 each. - Identifying Funding Sources for Ethics Centers 2004 -- The Monograph includes "Funding An Ethics Center", "What Grant Money Is There for Ethics and How to Compete for It", "Building Links to Regional Corporations and Organizations", and "Creating Revenue by Selling Ethics Education and Consulting Services."
Available for $5.00 each.
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Benchmarks of Ethics Center Excellence 2003 -- The benchmarks include "Mission Excellence", "Programming Excellence", "Funding Strength", "Excellence in Collaboration", "Board Excellence" and "Staff Excellence."
Available for $5.00 each.
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Consulting on Ethic Center Reviews
For Center Directors who seek assistance is reviewing their center, the Association is available for consulting to assist them in putting together an ethics center review team that appropriately matches experienced directors with the size and mission of their center. For centers undergoing institutional review, the Association is also available to identify appropriate Center Directors to serve as the external member of the review team. For further details, please contact Brian Schrag, Executive Secretary, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/
Ethics Center Coaching
The Association is initiating a program to provide coaching assistance to persons interested in starting a center. For assistance please contact Brian Schrag, Executive Secretary, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics at (812) 855-6450 or email appe@indiana.edu for more informtion.
Current Institutional Members
3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology
Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical Center Alden March Bioethics Institute
American Association of University Professors American Association of University Professors
Applied Ethics Institute, St. Petersburg College Applied Ethics Institute
Association for Morality and Ethics at Newman, University of Missouri-Rolla
Axios Institute Axios Institute
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions, University of North Florida Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions
Center for Academic Integrity, Duke University Center for Academic Integrity
Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics in the Professions, University of Florida
Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Williams College of Business, Xavier University Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas Center for Environmental Philosophy
Center for Ethics, Emory University Center for Ethics
Center for Ethics and Business, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles Center for Ethics and Business
Center for Ethics and Leadership, Florida Institute of Technology
Center for Ethics and Public Service, University of Miami Center for Ethics and Public Service
Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, University of California, San Diego Center for Ethics in Science and Technology
Center for Ethics and Social Justice, Loyola University Chicago Center for Ethics and Social Justice
Center for Ethics Education, Fordham University Center for Ethics Education
Center for Literature, Medicine and Health Care Professions, Hiram College
Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Center for Professional and Applied Ethics
Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University Center for Professional Ethics
Center for Professional Ethics, University of Missouri-Rolla
Center for the Study of Contemporary Ethics, University of St. Francis Center for the Study of Contemporary Ethics
Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley State College Center for the Study of Ethics
Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Washington University in St. Louis
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University Center for the Study of Ethics in Society
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Center for the Teaching & Study of Applied Ethics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science, University of Twente Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University Centre for Applied Ethics
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto Centre for Ethics
Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI), University of Miami
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton
College of Humanities, University of Utah College of Humanities
Committee on Ethical Issues and Normative Perspectives, St. Olaf College Committee on Ethical Issues and Normative Perspectives
Consortium Ethics Program, University of Pittsburgh Consortium Ethics Program
David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ohio Northern University
Dr. James Dale Ethics Center, Youngstown State University Dr. James Dale Ethics Center
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Emerson Center for Business Ethics, Saint Louis University Emerson Center for Business Ethics
Ethics Across the Curriculum Program, Howard Community College
Ethics and Compliance Officer Association Ethics and Compliance Officer Association
Ethics Center at Lock Haven University Ethics Center at Lock Haven University
Ethics Programs, University of Miami Ethics Programs
Ethics Teaching Center, Indiana University, Kokomo
Ehwa Institute for Law and Bioethics, Ewha Womans University Ewha Institute for Law and Bioethics
Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Gonzaga Ethics Institute Gonzaga Ethics Institute
Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership, St. Mary's University of Minnesota Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership
Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics, Sacred Heart University Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics
Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics, University of Baltimore Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics
Idaho State University
Indiana University, Kokomo Indiana University, Kokomo
Industrial College of the Armed Forces Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics
Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
Institute for Business Integrity, Wright State University Institute for Business Integrity
Institute for Christian Ethics, Stetson University Institute for Christian Ethics
Institute for Ethics, University of New Mexico
Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, San Diego State University Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Institute for the Medical Humanities
Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College
International Center for Ethics in Business, University of Kansas International Center for Ethics in Business
International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
International City/County Management Association
The Jackson Family Center for Ethics & Values, Coastal Carolina University The Jackson Family Center for Ethics and Values
Kegley Institute of Ethics, California State University, Bakersfield Kegley Institute of Ethics
Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University Kenan Institute for Ethics
Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission
Leadership, Ethics and Values Program, North Central College Leadership, Ethics and Values Program
Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, Fordham University School of Law Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics
LRN LRN
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
National Committees for Research Ethics, Oslo, Norway National Committees for Research Ethics
National Institute for Engineering Ethics, Texas Tech University National Institute for Engineering Ethics
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business
Office of Research Compliance, Clemson University Office of Research Compliance
Office of Research Ethics, University of Western Ontario
Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, University of Virginia Olsson Center for Applied Ethics
Pacific Institute for Ethics and Social Policy, Pacific University Pacific Institute for Ethics and Social Policy
Papoutsy Distinguished Chair in Ethics, Southern New Hampshire University Papoutsy Distinguished Chair in Ethics
Parr Center for Ethics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Parr Center for Ethics
Poe Ethics Center, University of Florida Poe Ethics Center
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
Practical and Professional Ethics Program, California State University, Monterey Bay Practical and Professional Ethics Program
President's Ethics in Public Life Initiative, University of Michigan President's Ethics in Public Life Initiative
Program in Applied Ethics, Fairfield University Program in Applied Ethics
Program in Applied Ethics, John Carroll University
Program in Biomedical Ethics & Medical Humanities, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities
Program in Ethics in Society, Stanford University Program in Ethics in Society
Program on Ethics & Public Life, Cornell University Program on Ethics and Public Life
Project in Professional Ethics, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Robert J. Rutland Center for Ethics, Clemson University Robert J. Rutland Center for Ethics
Salvation Army Ethics Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba
School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy
Seigel Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Character Seigel Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Character
Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law
Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic, United States Military Academy Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic
Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
Stanford Center on Ethics, Stanford University Stanford Center on Ethics
Thomas E. Creely Consulting, LLC Thomas E. Creely Consulting, LLC
Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research & Health Care Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University University Center for Human Values
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
University of Tennessee Department of Philosophy University of Tennessee Department of Philosophy
US Air Force Academy
Vasin, Heyn & Company, Auditors and Advisors Vasin, Heyn and Company, Auditors and Advisors
Villanova University Ethics Program Villanova University Ethics Program
Webster University Center for Ethics Webster University Center for Ethics
The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management
Yeschiva University Center for Ethics
York University Centre for Practical Ethics York University Centre for Practical Ethics
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
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