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The deadline to apply for the 2025-2026 academic year is April 25, 2025.
Bill Daniels believed deeply in ethics and integrity, and the importance of absolute ethical principles. As an exceptionally honest and fair businessman, he always based his decisions on what he believed was right – not just on what he thought was best for himself or his company. This attitude and style of conducting business earned Bill tremendous respect and loyalty throughout the business world.
We believe ethics education must convey that principles are constant foundations — not relative to a specific situation — and that doing what is right prevails over self-interest when the two may appear to be in conflict.
The Daniels Fund and the Collegiate Program partner schools established these straightforward and understandable principles that form the foundation of all Ethics Initiative activities.
The Ethics Fellow is to champion ethics in their discipline and promulgate the outcomes of his or her project through publication, teaching, and public discussion. This includes, but not limited to:
- Attend an Ethics Fellow & Champion orientation program in August.
- Expected to attend Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at UCCS events during the academic year.
- Present at Ethics Roundtables and events.
- Promote student involvement in Student Center for Public Trust (SCPT) and DFEI at UCCS events/activities.
- Provide at least two ethics class material (i.e. Syllabi, cases, debates, role-plays, PPT) which address practical and professional ethics in the Fellow’s discipline for an Internet archive and posting on DFEI at UCCS website.
- Contribute to the ethics expert web page for UCCS Ethics Fellows – including links to videos, research, and materials relevant to the focus areas most related to your expertise.
- Present at topical ethical workshops at Southern Colorado Campuses (stipend awarded).
- Ethics Faculty Fellows must be full-time educators at UCCS. Included are tenured/tenure track faculty, clinical faculty, full time non-tenured track instructors, and full-time staff responsible for an academic or student program.
- Faculty/educators may not have been an Ethics Fellow at UCCS in the past.
In 2019, the DFEI at UCCS created a unique opportunity for students to engage in the ethics initiative, partner with an ethics fellow, and gain program-based work experience.
Students who are selected to participate in this unique opportunity will be paired with a Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Fellow Faculty Member to create ethics programs, conferences, and/or curriculum to be delivered to UCCS and the greater southern Colorado DFEI community. See more information at Student Ethics Ambassadors.
In 2016, the DFEI at UCCS offered an Ethics Champion program to colleges in the Southern Colorado Higher Education Consortium (SCHEC) through the support of the DFEI at UCCS. The SCEC includes Adams State University, Fort Lewis College, CSU-Pueblo, Lamar Community College, Odyssey Early College, Otero College, Pikes Peak Community College, Pueblo Community College, Trinidad State College, United States Air Force Academy, and Western Colorado University. College presidents selected one faculty member to be an Ethics Champion for their campus. The Ethics Champions promoted ethics education on their campus.
In 2019, the Daniels Fund awarded us added funds to expand the ethics champion program into a Southern Colorado Ethics Consortium. See more information at SCEC Website.
UCCS Ethics Fellows will engage with ethics champions, present at workshops on Southern Colorado campuses, and learn from the ethics champions at the Champion/Fellow Orientation and Ethics Roundtables.
“Once a fellow – always a fellow” New fellows receive a stipend, present at an Ethics Roundtable, and are recognized by their academic year (ie. 2016-2017) in their respective area and college on the UCCS Ethics Initiative website. Ethics Fellows continue in their role to champion ethics, share knowledge as guest speakers, and invited to the Welcome Dinner, summits, workshops and other opportunities.
DFEI Ethics Roundtables are held throughout the academic year and open to all UCCS faculty, staff, Southern Colorado Ethics Consortium schools and Air Force Academy faculty with the intent to share their best practices, classroom experiences, subject specific course materials, and address specific concerns. Roundtables provide UCCS faculty and staff along with invited guests the opportunity to hear about how others teach ethics and implement principle based ethics in their work or area of expertise.
In addition to classroom learning, DFEI at UCCS student engagement activities provide an opportunity to demonstrate an understanding of principle-based ethics, ethical decision-making, and ethical leadership. Student participation in seminars and workshops and ethics case competitions augment the classroom experience and generate further learning. Through our DFEI at UCCS Ethics Fellow program, more student engagement opportunities will be available. A listing of students attending is available to assist you with grant course credit. Check out Student Opportunities on our website.