Ethics Awareness Week: Ethics and Public Policy Symposium

How "Corporate" Should the University Be?

Every year at the beginning of the fall semester UVU's Center for the Study of Ehtics holds "Ethics Awareness Week". One of the highlights of that week is the annual "Ethics and Public Policy Symposium, where speakers are invited to give insight into the intersection of public policy issues and ethics. This year's symposium "How Corporate Should the University Be?" featured the following speakers and sessions:


Session 1
The Threats to Academic Freedom
Cary Nelson, President, American Associate of University Professors, and
Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of
Illinois‹Champaign
Introduction by Scott Abbott, Professor of Philosophy and Integrated
Studies, UVU

 
Session 2
The University Has a Bottom Line, All Right, But What Is It?
L. Jackson Newell, Professor Emeritus of History and Former Dean of Liberal
Education, University of Utah, and President Emeritus, Deep Springs College
Introduction by David R. Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics,
and Professor of Philosophy, UVU

 
Session 3
University Governance in an Entrepreneurial Age
Susan Olson, Professor of Political Science, Associate Vice President for
Faculty, University of Utah
Introduction by Jill Jasperson, Associate Director, Center for the Study of
Ethics, and Associate Professor of Legal Studies, UVU

 
Session 4
Plenary Panel Discussion
Cary Nelson, President, American Associate of University Professors
L. Jackson Newell, Professor Emeritus of History and Former Dean of Liberal
Education, University of Utah
Susan Olson, Professor of Political Science, Associate Vice President for
Faculty, University of Utah
William A. Sederburg, Commissioner of Higher Education, State of Utah
Moderator: Elaine Englehardt, Special Assistant to the President,
Distinguished Professor of Ethics, UVU

These lectures were a part of the Utah Democracy Project.



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