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Education Ethics

Medical Amnesty and Responsibility

Three questions for campuses considering a medical amnesty policy
Kari Kjos

Social Justice

Reflection questions address, "What do we mean when we talk about social justice?"
Noelle Lopez

Social Justice as a Moral Concept

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

A political poster creates conflicts on a dorm floor.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona

Student Choices: My Homework or Our Homework

When does collaboration become cheating?
Rebecca Fox-Bivona

Student Choices: What Will Sex Mean?

Katherine wants to remain a virgin.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona

The Duties of Friendship

A student must decide whether to call the EMTs when her friend passes out after drinking
Rebecca Fox-Bivona

Competing Identities

A poster on a student's dorm room door causes controversy.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona

Finals Week: What to do about stimulants?

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?

Do the same rules apply to Facebook friends and "real-world" friends?
Noelle Lopez

Ethics Camp 2008

Summer workshops for educators show how to integrate ethics into the curriculum

Setting a Moral Vision for Academe

PowerPoint presentation on bridging the "isought" divide in international education
Lester Goodchild

Academic Freedom and Religious Freedom

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

CBL receives California County Boards of Education 2007 Exemplary Program Award

Character in the Catholic Schools

The Center launches a new national character education curriculum for Catholic schools.

Character Education for Churches

Build. Plant. Grow. provides intergenerational lessons on character based on readings from the Lectionary and children's literature.

Teaching Ethics

SCU Philosophy Professor William Prior discusses moral cultivation.

Dealing With Bullies

Fighting back: Is it right and does it work?
Miriam Schulman

Students Left Behind: Is It Ever Okay to Give up on a Child?

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

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

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

Business students defy selfish, cash-hungry stereotypes, according to SCU senior and Hackworth Fellow Carmen Wahlgren.
Carmen Wahlgren

Character Education Programs Expand

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

Miriam Schulman examines the way students use the Web for internet research.
Miriam Schulman

Education in Plato's Republic

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

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

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

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

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

Gift acceptance policies for universities.
Kirk O. Hanson

Ethics of Ethical Advising: Confessions of an Ethical Advisor

Member of Geron Corp.'s ethics adivsory board discusses the delights and dilemmas of her role.
Karen Lebacqz

Nation of Cheaters

A look at the rise in cheating in America.
Kirk O. Hanson

Building Character

A description of the character education program at Santa Clara County's Juvenile Hall school.
Miriam Schulman

Teaching Values in School

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

Example, emotions, experiences, explanation, ethos, and expectations for excellence.
Kevin Ryan

Challenge Problem

Assignments that invite cheating.
Miriam Schulman

When Inappropriate Behavior is Just Plain Wrong

An expert on moral development advocates straight talk when children do something wrong.
William Damon

Why Should We Care About Racial Inequlity Per Se ?

Is a color-blind approach to racial issues the best route to equality?
Glenn Loury

Tough Talk

Talking to children about ethics and sex.
Miriam Schulman

An Education in Ethics

Students often know the right thing to do. How can schools help them to do it?
Steve Johnson, S.M.

Lesson in Perspective

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

Compassion evokes not only tenderness but also the will to right wrongs.
Stephen A. Privett, S.J.

Cheating Themselves

A discussion of why students cheat and what academicians can do to discourage it.
Miriam Schulman

Teaching Ethics and Teaching Engineering-Some Parallels

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

Establishing fair criteria for college admission.
Miriam Schulman

Affirmative Action or Negative Action

A different way to frame the debate over race-based preference.
Miriam Schulman

Moral Literacy: The Virtue of the Book of Virtues

An historical look at the moral power of literature.
Miriam Schulman

Racism

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

What are the ethical questions involved when an innocent prank turns into academic cheating?
Thomas Shanks

Parental Relations

Jeff is questioned by his mother about his recent behavior. Has one of them overstepped his or her boundaries?
Student Scenario

Integrity

A student buys a paper from an Internet site.
Student Scenario

Homophobia

A student discussion of prejudice and homosexuality.
Student Scenario

Beaten Track

A dialogue on ethics and ability tracking in schools.
Shannon Peters Talbott

Date Rape

Some students are at a party, drinking and watching movies. One of the students finds herself being taken advantage of.
A Student Scenario

Vandalism

Students debate a revenge act of vandalism.
A Student Scenario