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Supported by a grant from the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent
Colleges (WFIC)
Summer Grants to Revise Courses
The Ethical Leadership Program is pleased to announce the availability
of up to six grants during the summer of 2007 for faculty to reconfigure
an existing course or develop a new course to deal with ethical
leadership. These grants will provide a stipend of $500 and an
additional fund of up to $100 for necessary travel or supplies.
The objective is to develop a significant ethical leadership component
in the new or revised course. Such components likely will vary
widely from one another depending on the nature of the course and
the instructor. However, they should include some degree of focused
discussion of ethical, leadership or ethical leadership issues
related to the discipline, its practitioners or the particular
subject matter of the course. They should include some form of assessable
work on the part of the student that could be made part of the
student's portfolio. Each participating faulty member will be asked
to provide a two-page report at the end of the summer detailing
how the course was developed or modified. In addition, all the participants
will be asked to provide a panel discussion for other members of
the faculty on how their work went, what sources they found useful
and what results were achieved.
As the Ethical Leadership Program emphasizes building the intellectual
skills in analysis, communication, problem-solving and decision-making essential to leadership, there should be as much emphasis
on the processes of learning as on the materials to be considered.
And as these skills are central to our whole educational program
and are specially emphasized in Communicating Plus, the direction
of the course development should be wholly compatible with the
other goals of Ripon College.
The ELP plans to provide six such grants each summer for the foreseeable
future. The goal will be to have as many different divisions and
departments as possible participating each summer. Thus, attention
will be given to distributing the grants around the faculty to
develop the greatest number of areas. If you are interested in
working on such a project this summer, please prepare a one-page
statement of intention, indicating what course you would be developing
or modifying, and what particular direction you think the development
would take. We understand that some of the time will be spent exploring
what can be done most effectively and that the project will be
one of discovery as well as refinement.
PLEASE SEND A STATEMENT OF YOUR INTENTIONS BY APRIL 28, 2007, TO:
David Seligman, Director of the Ethical Leadership Program
Grant recipients announced by May 3, 2007.
Case Studies in Ethical Leadership
Through a grant from the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent
Colleges the Ethical Leadership Program is able to sponsor grants
of up to $500 for each department to conduct a case study seminar.
The general structure is to invite a leader in a field directly
connected to the department to conduct a late afternoon seminar
with faculty and students in that discipline. These exchanges focus
on actual cases brought by the leader to the discussion so that
the topics and issues will be relevant not only to the discipline
the students are studying in their majors, but also to the real
life experiences of the visitor. Thus a publishing executive might
visit the English department; a television producer might visit
the communication department; a genetic research engineer might
meet with biologists or chemists; a bank executive might bring
some issues to the students and faculty of economics. The visiting
leaders would be asked to bring one or more examples of complex
ethical issues in their field to explore with the campus members
what information was needed, what principles are invoked in these
complex relationships, and what final goals must be considered
in the decision-making process when relative goods and evils are
in competition. The visitor would be expected to stay for a special
dinner with the faculty and some of the students (no more than
ten people would be at dinner), so that the discussion could continue,
focusing now on how the department and the college's educational
program can better prepare the students to deal with the dilemmas
and crises that will test their ethical stance and their ability
to make their principles realizable in actual situations. The department
would be responsible for sending to the Dean and to the Director
of the Ethical Leadership Program a two page summary of the conclusions
reached and the proposals urged.
The grant provides a $200 stipend plus trasportation and lodging
costs for the visitor as well as the cost for dinner.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS, CONTACT: David Seligman, Director of the
Ethical Leadership Program
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