Campus Ethics
At the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics we welcome SCU students, faculty, and staff into conversation about the critical issues of our time, and we support the personal and academic exploration of ethics.
We are dedicated to helping everyone in the campus community address the choices that shape their personal character and lead to lives of value. Research grants, fellowships, internships, and events highlight our offerings, which include peer-led programs for students and a community of scholars for faculty and staff.
Now accepting 2024-25 Government Ethics Fellowship applications for rising juniors and seniors. Apply by 5 p.m. Pacific Monday, May 20, 2024.
Now accepting 2024-25 Hackworth Fellowship applications for rising juniors and seniors. Apply by 5 p.m. Pacific Monday, May 20, 2024.
Apply now for a Spring 2024 Hackworth Research Grant for faculty, staff, and students. Apply by 5 p.m. Pacific Friday, May 24, 2024.
SCU students engage their classmates in exploring ethical issues on campus and in the larger world. Fellowships, internships, and research grants are program highlights.
More than 80 affiliated scholars work with the Ethics Center on events and projects. Grants are available for research and teaching in applied ethics.
ChatGPT has changed the way that the average person uses the internet.
The Campus Ethics team, a group of Hackworth Fellows from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, study this dilemma, providing a guide for students to help them use ChatGPT ethically.
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics invites applications from current Santa Clara University sophomores and juniors (rising juniors and seniors) for the Hackworth Fellowship in Applied Ethics.
The goal of the program is to have Fellows engage more deeply with the application of ethics to a topic of concrete concern, to complete an important project related to that concern, and to grow as an ethical leader. In order to pursue this goal, Fellows are expected either to develop their own programs in an area of interest to them or to work with existing programs at the Ethics Center.
Each fellow will develop a proposal to conduct research on a practical ethics issue in government, be engaged with Markkula Center projects at the intersection of public policy and government/political ethics, and be placed in a government office for an internship experience for part of the year.
Plans for the 2024-25 academic year will include options for research and curriculum projects on civics education and engagement, ethical culture in governments, and ethical approaches to voting and elections in the United States, as well as fellows’ individual ethics research projects.
In this podcast students inquire about programs on campus that support diversity, equity and inclusion.
Podcast explores notification to students about student resources at Santa Clara University.
In this podcast students inquire about the return of Recreational Sports to campus.
In this Podcast students explore the COVID-19 response at Santa Clara University.
Articles on ethics covering many fields/disciplines, including diversity, internet ethics, sports ethics, and other topics.
Case studies pertaining to ethical issues in various fields.
Curricula include lesson plans and course modules for middle, high school, and college students, as well as online courses, webinars, and curricula resources.
For the 2017-18 academic year, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics focused on the theme of freedom of speech and civil discourse. We explored the theme through public events, the work of a team of undergraduate fellows, and the provision of educational materials about key, contested ethical issues related to the theme.