Faculty Summer Grants in Ethical Leadership

Each year the Ethical Leadership Program awards Faculty Summer Grants to Ripon College Professors.  The objective of the grants are to develop a significant ethical and/or ethical leadership component that relates directly to the faculty members’ course content.  Such components vary widely from one another depending on the nature of the course and the instructor.  However, the proposed changes always include the following:

• A degree of focused discussion of ethics, leadership, or ethical leadership issues related to the discipline, its practitioners, or the particular subject matter of the course
• Some type of complementary element to the focused discussion such as a reading assignment, an activity, a speaker, a film/news clip, or any other relatable element
• At least one form of assessable work on the part of the student that could be made part of the student’s portfolio.

Applications are currently being accepted for summer 2010 projects.  You can dowload and view the application here.  Applications are due Wednesday, March 31st at 5:00 p.m. to blumerl@ripon.edu.  Grant recipients will be announced on Friday, April 16th. 

2009 Faculty Summer Grants

Professor Paul Jeffries, Philosophy Department: Professor Jeffries revised a course to explore philosophy through film by using readings and discussion supported by philosophical and ethical issues played out in film.

Professors Doug Northrup, Paul Jeffries, Mary Williams Norton, Joe Hatcher, English, Philosophy, Physics and Psychology Departments: The Professors began researching developing a course exploring the connections of science and virtue, focusing primarily on four critical periods following significant scientific innovations: Newtonian physics, Lavoisier chemistry, Darwinian evolution, and Einsteinian relativity.

Professors Karl Beres, Diane Beres, Kris Peters, David Scott, Tim Hess, Mathematics and Computer Science Department: The Professors revised ethical components of the MaCS Senior Seminar to emphasize the professional code of ethics and conduct for the appropriate professional societies representing the majors.  Sample topics include: cultural, legal and ethical issues; whistleblowing, privacy and confidentiality, risk management and intellectual property.

Professor Barb McGowan, History Department: Professor McGowan worked on the development of a new course, Contemporary American History, examining Presidential decision-making and leadership from different perspectives.  Exploring leadership and ethics and the relationship between personal morality and public morality and how this connects with effective, or ineffective, leadership.

Past Faculty Summer Grants:

Please contact the ELP for more information.

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