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Today's college students have more knowledge available to them than can be absorbed; mastery of a subject area creates siloes where nearly every course is tailored to comprehending subject matter that may be outdated before they graduate. But learning is more than subject-matter expertise. Our fast-paced environment requires instantaneous reactions to complex questions. Our instant-messaging age champions quick response over reflection or thought--even the president governs by Twitter. Yet the ethical dilemmas are no less complex than the subject matter; cyber security, prison reform, labor rights, abortion, artificial intelligence, or gun laws are common table topics over lunch. Struggling through that complexity is central to understanding its implications for our culture. This book brings together some of the leading ethicists in the country to consider the rightful place of ethics in the university today. The authors make the case that higher education has a special duty to empower students to cultivate their character, ethically assess situations, and prepare them for an increasingly complex world. With contributions from: Mary Camp Alexander Cole Charles E. Curran Robert J. Howell D. Stephen Long Robin Lovin Richard O. Mason William F. May Thomas Wm. Mayo John Sadler

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Many, many years ago the presidents of the Ivies taught one course each year, the undergraduate's ethics course; such was the university's commitment for ethics to be in the heart of every university student. Rightly Kirk and Crespo and their colleagues remind us that the academy exists not just for its members, but for all. After years of marketing the university primarily for the sake of one's own advancement, this collection helps us to restore the very goal of the academy's mission. Hats off. --James F. Keenan, SJ, Boston College Today, as politicians regularly tweet false information and the world faces a global pandemic that highlights both public health and public morality, this edited book from Crespo and Kirk (both, Southern Methodist Univ.) is a timely look into how institutions of higher education have developed and changed methods for teaching ethics over time. It also conveys the contributors' belief that these institutions have a moral obligation to educate students in ethics as well as in their major disciplines. Authored by leading ethicists in the field, the essays in this collection discuss how ethics is taught at universities and what role it plays in general curricula. Contributors argue that institutions of higher education have a duty to equip graduates with an ethical toolbox needed in every field. Chapters include discussions on teaching ethics in secular versus religious institutions and ethics instruction in professional university programs such as law and medicine. More broadly, the book looks at ethics through the very blurry intersection of ethics, politics, and education. --G. Colosi, Syracuse University

Many, many years ago the presidents of the Ivies taught one course each year, the undergraduate's ethics course; such was the university's commitment for ethics to be in the heart of every university student. Rightly Kirk and Crespo and their colleagues remind us that the academy exists not just for its members, but for all. After years of marketing the university primarily for the sake of one's own advancement, this collection helps us to restore the very goal of the academy's mission. Hats off. --James F. Keenan, SJ, Boston College

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C. R. Crespo is the associate director of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and lecturer in Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Southern Methodist University. She completed the Management Development Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Institute for Higher Education. Ms. Crespo focuses her work on higher education policy and administration. Rita Kirk is the William F. May Endowed Director of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and Altshuler Distinguished Professor in Corporate Communication & Public Affairs at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on the development and ethical targeting of public arguments, campaign communication, and a phenomenon that cannot be ignored in current discourse: hate speech.

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