ETHICS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
EAC: A Practical Workshop for Integrating Professional Ethics into Technical Courses
This summer (June 24-July 1, 2003), the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions(CSEP) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago will host a workshop on how to integrate professional ethics into technical courses (anything from calculus to statistics, from botany to technical communications). The emphasis will be on practice not theory, on what works in class and what doesn't. This workshop is similar to those we successfully offered own IIT faculty in 1991-93 and to faculty at other universities worldwide starting in 1994. Participants from diverse backgrounds and disciplines have found the workshop to be stimulating and useful.
Our funding from the National Science Foundation will pay for most reasonable expenses such as travel and living expenses during the workshop, plus $500 in stipend, on condition that your institution contributes another $1500. This condition has at least two purposes: 1) the $2000 stipend ($1500 + $500) should be substantial enough to make it financially possible for faculty who consult, teach, or otherwise earn money to spend eight summer days in Chicago and to devote significant time after returning to working on ethics across the curriculum, and 2) it is our way of assuring buy-in from the home institution upon your return, and re-design of the technical course.
Attending the workshop commits the participant to:
• devoting seven days (full-time) to the workshop (and related activities), with Sunday off;
• integrating professional ethics into one of your technical courses in the fall by using what you prepared in the summer workshop;
• conducting a course evaluation of the new material;
• writing a report describing what you did and what happened.
Participants will not have "graduated" from the workshop until they have completed these components. Once all of this is completed, a participant should be able to help faculty at the home institution to integrate professional ethics into their own technical courses.
To apply, you need only to send to the address below:
• a short letter describing your reasons for wanting to take the workshop, your background, and the courses you will be teaching next fall;
• a Curriculum Vitae; and
• a letter of commitment from the appropriate administrator indicating that your institution will pay its share of the $2000 stipend if you are accepted.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2003.
We will have funds for no more than twenty participants. So, please don't delay. We will try to notify applicants by March 15, 2003. For more information, contact:
Michael Davis, Senior Fellow
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT HUB Mezzanine, Room 204, 3241 S. Federal Street Chicago, IL 60616-3793
tel: 773.288.8348 / fax: 312.567.3016 / email: davism@iit.edu