Making Ethics Central to the College Experience: A Pilot Project

Placing a focus on making ethics more central to the college experience.

This project is focused on making ethics more central to the college experience. Based on our recently-completed national study of higher education, we are struck and disappointed by the lack of attention to and lack of knowledge about “ethics.”

Through this project, we seek to prepare students to detect ethical dilemmas; to reflect on them; and to develop strategies for resolving dilemmas they may face today and will surely face in the future

We will develop interventions to help students to develop a sensitivity to ethical dilemmas and approaches they can draw on as students, as future workers, and as citizens. Ultimately, we plan to prepare materials that can be used on college campuses across the nation, and beyond.