Articles
Education Ethics
- Medical Amnesty and Responsibility
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- Three questions for campuses considering a medical amnesty policy
Kari Kjos
- Social Justice
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- Reflection questions address, "What do we mean when we talk about social justice?"
Noelle Lopez
- Social Justice as a Moral Concept
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- Hackworth Fellow Noelle Lopez reflects on the place of social justice in the SCU experience and the lack of a shared understanding about what the term means.
Noelle Lopez
- Student Choices: My Poster, My Identity
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- A political poster creates conflicts on a dorm floor.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Student Choices: My Homework or Our Homework
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- When does collaboration become cheating?
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Student Choices: What Will Sex Mean?
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- Katherine wants to remain a virgin.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- The Duties of Friendship
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- A student must decide whether to call the EMTs when her friend passes out after drinking
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Competing Identities
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- A poster on a student's dorm room door causes controversy.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Finals Week: What to do about stimulants?
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- A case exploring whether taking drugs like Adderall to improve cognitive performance is simply a form of enhancement or a form of cheating.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- When Do I Friend?
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- Do the same rules apply to Facebook friends and "real-world" friends?
Noelle Lopez
- Ethics Camp 2008
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- Summer workshops for educators show how to integrate ethics into the curriculum
- Setting a Moral Vision for Academe
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- PowerPoint presentation on bridging the "isought" divide in international education
Lester Goodchild
- Academic Freedom and Religious Freedom
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- An exploration of academic freedom in the religious university and religious freedom in the public university.
Robert M. O'Neil
- Orange County Character-Based Literacy Program Wins Award
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- CBL receives California County Boards of Education 2007 Exemplary Program Award
- Character in the Catholic Schools
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- The Center launches a new national character education curriculum for Catholic schools.
- Character Education for Churches
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- Build. Plant. Grow. provides intergenerational lessons on character based on readings from the Lectionary and children's literature.
- Teaching Ethics
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- SCU Philosophy Professor William Prior discusses moral cultivation.
- Dealing With Bullies
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- Fighting back: Is it right and does it work?
Miriam Schulman
- Students Left Behind: Is It Ever Okay to Give up on a Child?
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- From the 2005-06 National Ethics Agenda, a look at what we owe children who are expelled from school.
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group
- Is Tolerance Enough: Catholic Universities and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Issues
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- Comments from an Ethics at Noon presentation.
Michael J. Meyer, Michael Zampelli, S.J.
- Success Camp: A Character Education Program for Youngsters in Foster Care
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- Language arts and "survival skills" form the core of a three-day workshop for youngsters in the child welfare system.
- Not Just About the Money
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- Business students defy selfish, cash-hungry stereotypes, according to SCU senior and Hackworth Fellow Carmen Wahlgren.
Carmen Wahlgren
- Character Education Programs Expand
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- New programs and expansions of existing programs in Character Education.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Internet Ethics: An exploration of how students use the Web for research
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- Miriam Schulman examines the way students use the Web for internet research.
Miriam Schulman
- Education in Plato's Republic
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- This paper examines the two explicit accounts of education in Plato's Republic, and analyzes them in relation to Socrates' own pedagogical method, thereby unveiling the ideals of Socratic education.
Ariel Dillon
- Talking to Your Teen
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- This article highlight suggestions on how to open the lines of communication between parents and teenagers.
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Responsibility for Multicultural Education: An Ethics of Teaching and Learning
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- This article looks at the benefits of a multicultural education and how it can prepare students for the diverse world in which they will live and work.
Marilyn Fernandez and Marilyn Edelstein
- Setting Limits: TV-Watching Is Not a Constitutional Right
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- What are the important, growth-producing activities that your child should be engaged in that aren't entertainment or media consumption, and how can you encourage these?
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Cheating is not the problem
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- Cheating is not the problem but the symptom of a larger failure in the way we are raising our children.
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Defining the Institution's Values: Four questions to guide discussions of gift acceptance
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- Gift acceptance policies for universities.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Ethics of Ethical Advising: Confessions of an Ethical Advisor
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- Member of Geron Corp.'s ethics adivsory board discusses the delights and dilemmas of her role.
Karen Lebacqz
- Nation of Cheaters
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- A look at the rise in cheating in America.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Building Character
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- A description of the character education program at Santa Clara County's Juvenile Hall school.
Miriam Schulman
- Teaching Values in School
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- The Center's director of character education describes Character-Based Literacy and other approaches to integrating ethics into the curriculum.
An Interview with Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Six Es of Character Education
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- Example, emotions, experiences, explanation, ethos, and expectations for excellence.
Kevin Ryan
- Challenge Problem
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- Assignments that invite cheating.
Miriam Schulman
- When Inappropriate Behavior is Just Plain Wrong
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- An expert on moral development advocates straight talk when children do something wrong.
William Damon
- Why Should We Care About Racial Inequlity Per Se ?
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- Is a color-blind approach to racial issues the best route to equality?
Glenn Loury
- Tough Talk
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- Talking to children about ethics and sex.
Miriam Schulman
- An Education in Ethics
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- Students often know the right thing to do. How can schools help them to do it?
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Lesson in Perspective
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- A sample character education lesson using John Scieszka's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Like a Bear Robbed of Her Cubs: Compassion
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- Compassion evokes not only tenderness but also the will to right wrongs.
Stephen A. Privett, S.J.
- Cheating Themselves
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- A discussion of why students cheat and what academicians can do to discourage it.
Miriam Schulman
- Teaching Ethics and Teaching Engineering-Some Parallels
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- This paper looks at the problem of ethical dilemmas, teaching engineering design, and the implications which arise from the teaching of engineering and the teaching of ethics.
Tim Healy
- May the Best Man or Woman Win
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- Establishing fair criteria for college admission.
Miriam Schulman
- Affirmative Action or Negative Action
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- A different way to frame the debate over race-based preference.
Miriam Schulman
- Moral Literacy: The Virtue of the Book of Virtues
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- An historical look at the moral power of literature.
Miriam Schulman
- Racism
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- Molly has just been accepted at Stanford University and calls her friend Terri to tell her the good news. Terri assumes that Molly was accepted because of her race.
A Student Scenario
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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- What are the ethical questions involved when an innocent prank turns into academic cheating?
Thomas Shanks
- Parental Relations
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- Jeff is questioned by his mother about his recent behavior. Has one of them overstepped his or her boundaries?
Student Scenario
- Integrity
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- A student buys a paper from an Internet site.
Student Scenario
- Homophobia
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- A student discussion of prejudice and homosexuality.
Student Scenario
- Beaten Track
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- A dialogue on ethics and ability tracking in schools.
Shannon Peters Talbott
- Date Rape
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- Some students are at a party, drinking and watching movies. One of the students finds herself being taken advantage of.
A Student Scenario
- Vandalism
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- Students debate a revenge act of vandalism.
A Student Scenario
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