Ethics on Campus

Resources for Faculty

Resources for Students

From its oldest lecture series, Ethics at Noon, to its newest student outreach efforts, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has always served the Santa Clara University community with presentations, workshops, training in ethics pedagogy, support for scholarship, and opportunities for experiential learning.

Hackworth Grants for Faculty and Student Research
Since their inception in 2003, Hackworth Grants have supported research and teaching in applied ethics for almost 30 SCU faculty members and another 15 to students. Topics have varied from transitional justice to ethics and aesthetics. The grants are supported by an endowment from Michael and Joan Hackworth.

Student Fellowships
Three Santa Clara University seniors receive Hackworth Fellowships each year, allowing them to design ethics programming for their fellow students. In 2007-08 their varied interests include sexual ethics; ethics and technology; and democratizing women in traditional societies. A separate Environmental Ethics Fellow, supported by a grant from John and Joan Casey, is doing a study on the "culture of sustainability" at SCU.

Lectures
The Ethics at Noon lecture series brings experts from SCU and the larger community to address a wide range of issues in ethics. The series has featured author Tim Wise on "White Privilege," Lisa Sowle Cahill on "Bioethics in a Global Perspective," and Gerald Uelmen on the fair administration of justice. The Center's Regan Lecture Series, supported by a gift from New York Life Insurance Co. in honor of William Regan III, is aimed at bringing the larger community to SCU. Past lecturers have included John T. Noonan Jr., judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and eminent scholar of Catholic moral theology, and Edmund Pellegrino, Chair of President Bush's Council on Bioethics.

Center Scholars and Ethics Pedagogy
The Center enjoys a vibrant scholarly community of more than 50 faculty with a research or teaching interest in ethics. In addition, faculty have access to consulting on how to integrate ethics into their curriculums.

Staff
David DeCosse, director, campus ethics programs
Larry Nelson, ethics consultant for faculty