At any one time, there are typically several projects underway at the Center. As this issue of PERSPECTIVES goes to press a project begun last spring is coming to an end, while another one launched in September is gaining momentum. And a project initiated in 1982 has begun to bear fruit in the closing months of 1984. Brief accounts of all three are presented below.

In 1982, the Center was awarded a $74,000 grant from the Exxon Education Foundation to produce a series of instructional modules in applied ethics. The modules were intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate and continuing education programs. Early this fall Kendall/Hunt publishers announced the publication of the first two modules in the series-Professional Responsibility for Harmful Actions by Martin Curd and Larry May and The Moral Status of Loyalty by Marcia Baron. The remaining seven modules are scheduled for publication in 1985. To order copies for examination or purchase, write Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2560 Kerper Boulevard, PO. Box 539, Dubuque, Iowa 52001.

The focus of the Center's project on the Humanities, Health Care and the Elderly, funded by the Illinois Humanities Council, was the ethical and social issues in health care that affect the lives of senior citizens. During the past decade, the multidisciplinary field of bio-ethics has contributed to scholarly debate, public discussion and social policy on a wide range of moral dilemmas in health care affecting patients of all ages.

The Center conducted a series of 30 workshops in retirement homes and community centers throughout the Chicago area during the summer and fall of 1984. The primary purpose of the workshops was to provide the elderly with an opportunity to reflect on their experiences. Participating in these sessions with the elderly were humanists drawn from philosophy and religion as well as professionals representing law, nursing and medicine.

The project was directed by Dr. Frederick A. Elliston, former Center Senior Research Associate and now Visiting Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii. A final report describing the project, films and publications relating to health care and the elderly, and organizations and funding sources which are concerned with the welfare of senior citizens will be available in early 1985. Requests for copies should be directed to the Center.

In September, the Center launched a twenty-month study of the ethical issues in organization development (OD) in collaboration with several OD professional groups. The project is supported by a $90,189 grant from the Ethics & Values in Science & Technology Program of the National Science Foundation.

OD researchers and practitioners apply behavioral science theories and techniques to organizational behavior, employing and evaluating alternative intervention strategies intended to improve organizational performance. The current project will (1) assess the ethical and value dimensions of OD research and practice and (2) institutionalize a program to ensure continuing dialogue on ethical issues after this project is concluded. A series of panels at six OD professional meetings will be convened to analyze the ethical issues in two or three case scenarios prepared by the project's staff and advisory board.

The project is co-directed by Dr. Mark S. Frankel, CSEP Director, and Dr. William Gellermann, Coordinator of the OD Ethics Task Force. It is expected to produce: (1) a Casebook on Ethical Issues in OD; (2) an Annotated Bibliography in OD Ethics and (3) an OD Clearinghouse on Professional Ethics to promote continuing assessment of ethical issues beyond the life of the project. An important goal of the project is to contribute to the development of ethical guidelines for OD researchers and practitioners. Inquiries about the study should be directed to Mark Frankel at the Center.