Ethics Spotlight: Reconciliation
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Our latest Spotlight focuses on "Post-Election Reconciliation" after a highly contentious election where our country remains as polarized as ever. Ethics Center staff and scholars provide an analysis of the ethical challenges associated with healing these deep wounds.
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New Resource Helps Donors Make Ethical Donations
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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics announces a new resource in the area of social sector ethics. The Ethical Giving Guide provides guidance as many individual donors and family foundations are faced with new challenges and considerations as they prepare to give this season. In response to that need, Joan Harrington, director, Social Sector Ethics, with contribution by Anita Varma, assistant director, Social Sector Ethics and Journalism & Media Ethics, authored this guide as a resource to help think through how to define your personal mission for giving.
View the Giving Guide
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Ethics Center Featured in Journal of Moral Theology
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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is proud to announce that it was recently profiled in the Journal of Moral Theology. The profile spoke highly of Santa Clara University’s expansive Ethics Center and curriculum. It articulated our unique place in academia for having such a vast, comprehensive ethics program, specifically, for applied ethics.
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An Instagram Story of Hope
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Abigal Fafinski '21, a 2020-21 Hackworth Fellow has been designing an Instagram campaign to spread hope. Inspired by her Catholic ethics project on hope in relation to social justice and mental health, there will be 12 days of posts curated by Abby and the other Fellows. Follow the hashtag #hopeliveshere or visit the Ethics Center's Instagram to view our Fellows’ inspiring messages and add your own.
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Extending Health Care to all Ethically and Practically: Lessons From Covid-19
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Dr. Charles Binkley, director of Bioethics and Dick Levy, Ethics Center advisory board member, recently published an opinion article on STAT, a highly prominent medical publication. The opinion article details ethically sound and humanitarian-centered reasons why health care should be a right, not a privilege.
Read the Article on STAT
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Moderated by Subramaniam Vincent, the director for the Journalism and Media Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Joining us with lessons from their firsthand experiences covering the White House are current Politico White House Correspondent Anita Kumar, former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers '84, and longtime CBS White House Correspondent Bill Plante.
- Dec. 18 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST (1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST)
As president-elect Joe Biden prepares to lead a deeply divided country, what’s next for White House coverage? What can past coverage and recent experiences teach us about envisioning a better future for how journalists cover the president, and how Americans understand the United States?
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Media Mentions
•Dr. Charles Binkley, director of bioethics, and Dick Levy, Ethics Center advisory board member, recently published an opinion article on STAT, a highly prominent medical publication. Their model finds common ground between moral reasoning and economic realities.
•Kirk Hanson, a senior fellow at the Ethics Center presents at NCBM and is highlighted on Business World Online for his analysis of why corporate misconduct tends to continue and what needs to be done about it.
•Director of Technology Ethics Brian Green was quoted in Religion News Service: "The good done by a vaccine in preventing the spread of a deadly disease can outweigh ethical concerns about the sourcing of cells used in research."
• Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics, was quoted by Law360 on the FTC's new Zoom deal that signals a new data security plan under democrats.
•John Pelissero, senior scholar at the Ethics Center and professor emeritus of political science at Loyola University Chicago was quoted on GVWire discussing the ethics of nepotism and on KTVU Fox 2 and Fox News on the ethics of California legislators traveling for a conference during the pandemic.
For a full list of Ethics Center staff newsmakers, visit Media Mentions.
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