Ethics Across The Curriculum: A Practical Workshop
During the last two weeks of July 1997 (July 21-29), IIT will be offering a workshop on how to integrate ethics into technical courses (anything from calculus to thermodynamics, from technical writing to genetics). The emphasis will be on practice, on what works in class and what doesn’t, not on theory. This workshop is similar to those we offered our own faculty 1991-93 and to faculty at other schools in 1994.

Our funding, which comes from the National Science Foundation, should pay for most reasonable expenses, plus $500 in stipend, on condition that your institution puts up another $1000. This condition has at least two purposes:

First, it is our way of assuring that your institution will want to get its money's worth out of you when you get back.

Second, the $1500 stipend should be large enough to make it financially possible for the faculty who consult, teach, or otherwise earn money during the summer to take ten days off in Chicago and devote significant time after they get back to working on ethics across the curriculum.

Attending the workshop commits you to: a) devoting seven days (full time) to the workshop (and related activities)-with a weekend off; b) integrating professional ethics into one of your technical courses in the fall by using what you prepared in the summer workshop; c) doing a course evaluation of that material; and d) writing a report describing what you did and what happened. You will not have "graduated" from the workshop until you have done all that. Once you have done all that, you will, we believe, be ready to help faculty at your institution integrate ethics into their technical courses.

To apply, you need only send us: a) a short letter describing your reasons for wanted to take the workshop, your background, an the courses you will be teaching next fall; b) a cv; and c) a letter of commitment from the appropriate administrator indicating that your institution will pay its share of the $1500 stipend if you are accepted. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997. We will have funds for no more than twenty faculty. So, don't delay. We will try to notify applicants by March 17. For more information, contact: Michael Davis, Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 W. 31st Street, Room 102, Stuart Building, Chicago, IL 60616-3793, ph. 312-567-3017, fx. 312-567-3016, e-mail csep@charlie.cns.iit.edu

Center News in Brief
The Center has a new librarian/information specialist, Jing Li, the first librarian to have an undergraduate degree in engineering. She received her engineering degree in China and her Masters in Library Science from Indiana University.

CSEP hosted two Sabbatical scholars in the fall of 1996. Professor H. Samuel Wang, who had just completed his term as Dean of Engineering at Chun Yuan Christian University in Taiwan, arrived in late August to spend the academic year at CSEP. His research interests include engineering ethics and quality in industrial production. professor Lawrence Busch, a sociologist at Michigan State University, was a visitor in the autumn term. His current work draws upon political and ethical theory and his earlier investigations of agricultural development.

Last Spring, the Center received a grant from the National Science Foundation to put its file of over 850 codes of ethics online so that researchers, members of the professions, students, and others can access the codes directly. Included with the codes will be an introduction, study guide, bibliography on codes, and tools for searching by topics. Watch our Web Page for details.

The Ethics Bowl has expanded to a national competition to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics on March 6, 1997. Fourteen teams are scheduled to compete.

The final event in CSEP's 20th Anniversary Celebration will be a talk on March 26, 1997 by engineering, William J. LeMessurier, the designer of the Citicorp Building in New York City. The title is "Why Citicorp Did Not Fall on Bloomingdale's."

Announcements:
During the summer of 1997 (mid-June through mid-August), the Ethics Institute of Dartmouth College will offer a faculty summer institute for the purpose of developing undergraduate, multi-disciplinary courses on the ethical, legal, and social implications of die Human Genome Project. To partially off set costs, each participant will receive $2500 in support toward travel, room, and meals. Additional support from the participant's home institution will be needed. Contact: Barbara Hillinger, 6031 Parker House, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, Tel: 703?646?1263, Fax 603?646?2652, E?mail: barbara.hillinger@dartmouth.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Institution for Nonprofit Organizational Management, University of San Francisco, is asking for ethics cases in nonprofit organization management to be included in a revised and expanded addition of Ethics in Nonprofit Management, the university's collection of teaching cases on ethical dilemmas faced by managers and board members of nonprofit organizations. A grant from the Lilly Endowment will award $1000 for each case accepted into the collection. Topics to be covered include human resource management (paid or volunteer), board activities, financial management, fundraising, and marketing. Contact: Ken Koziol, Director of Publications, College of Professional Studies, USF, 4306 Geary Blvd., Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94118-3004, Tel: 415-750-5180, Fax: 415-752-5427, Email: koziol@usfca.edu.

The Eleventh Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Padova, Italy, August 21-23, 1997, will be devoted to the topic Research in Health Care: Philosophical, Ethical, and Historical Aspects. Deadline for abstracts (500 words or less): March 1, 1997. Contact: Prof dr. Hank ten Have, secretariat ESPMH, Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy, and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 NB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Tel: ++31-24-3615328; Fax: ++31-24-3540254.

The Third International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publications, Prague, Czech Republic, September 17-21, 1997, seeks abstracts on such topics as the mechanisms of peer review in scientific publications, editorial policy, authorship and responsibility for published material, online peer review, quality assurance for reviewers and editors, breakdowns, weaknesses, and biases, evaluations of peer review's validity and practicality, or the history of peer review. Deadline: January 15, 1997. Contact: Annette Flanagin, JAMA, 515 N. State, Chicago, IL 60610; Tel: 312-464-2432; Fax: 312-464-5824; Email: aff@ix.netcom.com.

CONFERENCES: A conference on the Ethics of Human Genetics: Christian, Jewish, and Secular Perspectives, sponsored by Duquesne University and St. Francis Medical Center, will be held at Duquesne on May 14, 1997. Speakers include Ron Cole-Turner, Fred Rosner, Thomas Murray, and James Walter. Panel will discuss cases. For information, write: The Center for Critical Care Medicine at St. Francis, 400 45th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, Attn: Christine Sedlack, telephone: (412) 622-6191.

The Sixth Annual Meeting, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, March 6-8, 1997, Washington, DC, will include a Keynote address by David B. Wilkins, Director of Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession, an ethics center colloquium on "Innovative Projects of Ethics Centers: Center Development and Outreach", a mini-conference on "Practicing and Teaching Ethics in Engineering and Computing", and a special colloquium on "Networking the Ethics Committee Networks". Contact: APPE, 410 N. Park Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405; Tel: 812-855-6450; Fax: 812-855-3315; Email: APPE@INDIANA.EDU.

PUBLICATIONS: The Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics has issued a report, Improving Coverage for Unproven Interventions, 45 pp, $10. The report reviews the criteria and information needed for decisions concerning coverage eligibility, the perspective from which such decisions should be made, the objectives that should shape coverage decisions, and the process for deciding whether and in what way health plans should cover an unproven intervention. Contact: Margie Noonan, College of St. Catherine, 601 25th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454, Tel: 612-690-7895, Fax: 612-690-7774.

Michael Davis, Justice in the Shadow of Death: Rethinking Capital and Lesser Punishments (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

SEMINAR: The Center for Literature, Medicine and the Health Care Professions, a collaborative project of Hiram College and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, announces its sixth annual summer seminar: Narratives of Care: Constricting an Ethic of Clinical Practice, June 7-13, 1997. Seminar Directors: Jack Coulehan, M.D. and John R. Stone, M.D. Faculty Leaders: Cortney Davis, RN, Hilde Nelson, MA, Laurence Thomas Ph.D., and Rosemary Tong, Ph.D. Center Faculty: Carol Donley, Ph.D., Martin Kohn, Ph.D. and Delese Wear, Ph.D.

Cost for the Seminar, including readings and room and board, is $950. If you wish to apply or want more information, contact the Center for Literature, Medicine, and the Health Care Professions, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio 44234. Telephone (330) 569-5380 or fax (330) 569-5449. Send e-mail correspondence to DONLEYCC@HIRAM.EDU or mfk@neoucom.edu. Application deadline: April 1, 1997. Enrollment is limited.

POSITION AVAILABLE: The University of Minnesota invites applications for a faculty position in the Center for Biomedical Ethics which will emphasize graduate education and research in bioethics. This position is a tenure/tenure track 12 month annually renewable position at the Associate or Assistant Professor level. Additional departmental appointmcnt as appropriate. Salary and rank commensurate with experience.

The person in this position will be expected to provide leadership for Center programs in graduate education; to teach biomedical ethics courses at the graduate level and to conduct research in the field of bioethics. The successful applicant will be conversant in theoretical bioethics and have a Ph.D. degree or highest degree in bioethics or related field. Closing date of application is February 1, 1997.

Start date on or after July 1, 1997. Send a letter describing your research and teaching interests, and career objectives, a CV, and names of three referees to: Dianne M. Bartels, RN, MA, Chair, Search Committee, Center for Biomedical Ethics, 2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 110, Minneapolis, MN 55414-3074 e-mail: bartc001@maroon.tc.umn.edu. The University is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions. Perspectives on the Professions is one of the means the Center has of achieving that purpose.

EDITOR: Michael Davis
MANAGING EDITOR: Rebecca Newton
EDITORIAL BOARD: David Beam, Robert F. Ladenson, Jing Li, Martin Malin, Ullica Segerstrale, Warren Schmaus
CSEP Director: Vivian Weil

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of CSEP or the Illinois Institute of Technology.