Ethics Fellows

Ethics Education Project

In collaboration with the social work club (and the communications/film club if they are interested), create a series of events where generalist/specialized/recent graduate social work students will narrate the stories of their ethical identity development, integrating the SW code of ethics and the DFEI ethical principles. The short films will be premiered during a social work club event and then subsequently available for recruiting, training, orientation, and class use. 

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Coming soon!

Resources

mfurey@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Project includes one or two units within ENGL 1410 to include an ethical framework to the research process applying the DFEI principles.  Will include two main parts: a scaffolded source analysis in which they consider the integrity of both authors and publishers, and a group application opportunity on fostering trust and accountability through source selection and citation practices. The latter will include discussion and demonstration of AI’s usefulness and limitations in both a practical and ethical sense.

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Dr. Catherine Grandorff is a Teaching Professor in the English Department, where she has taught courses in creative writing, developmental writing, research writing, and rhetoric since 2012. Committed to cultivating inclusive communal spaces in person and online, she dedicates her teaching and learning practices to developing critical thinking through readings, writings, and reflections that draw on the multiplicity of the human experience. Her research centers primarily on gender, leadership, and language. She co-authored the textbook Stasis Theory and Research Practices, produced by UCCS faculty and widely used in the First-Year Rhetoric and Writing Program. 

Resources

cgrandor@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Strengthen the ethics section of HSCI 6120 by strengthening the lecture section to include the DFEI principles of: integrity, trust, accountability, transparency, fairness, respect, rule of law, and viability. To create case studies to reflect scenarios that occur in the healthcare profession. The proposed topics to be covered in these case studies are: 1) ethics in decision making of patient care, 2) ethics of interprofessional practice among healthcare providers, and 3) ethics of cultural competency for the healthcare of diverse populations.

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Kathy Liu, PhD, ATC is an Associate Professor in the UCCS Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Dr. Liu teaches in the Department of Health Sciences in the Master of Science in Athletic Training program. Dr. Liu has a Bachelor’s degree from Washburn University, a Master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado, and her PhD from University of Delaware in Biomechanics and Movement Sciences. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on chronic ankle instability and injury prevention of the lower extremity.

Resources

kliu@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Ethical principles and the information environment: finding, consuming, and sharing information. Provide the audience (primarily students) with (1) an overview of the information landscape and information privilege (2) a reminder about their role as information finders, evaluators, consumers, and creators in the information ecosystem (3) ethical quandaries & case studies about information consumption and creation/sharing and the onus that goes with that responsibility.

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Gabriela joined UCCS in the fall of 2023 as an Instruction and Research Librarian in the Kraemer Family Library. She is particularly interested in learning design and technology and how it relates to libraries in academia. For this project she is exploring the information landscape, information privilege, and information consumption, evaluation, and creation, and how all of these interact in the higher education environment.

Resources

gmarti11@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Integrating the DFEI principles into Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Incorporate DFEI principles in courses in CS Department, such as CS 4320/5320, CS 4340/5340, CS 3820, CS 2080, CS 3110, CS 3300, and the future course on quantum computing and AI (coming up Spring 2025). A new course, CS 3820 (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence),  will be offered in the Fall 2024 semester for the first time. Elaborate on the unique challenges that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has posed to society and will look into them from the lens of the DFEI ethical principles.

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Dr. Armin Moin is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and the director of the Quantum-Classical AI and Software Engineering (QAS) lab at the Computer Science (CS) Department of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). Before starting his faculty position, he worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar-Employee at the CS Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the US and as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the CS Department of the University of Antwerp and FlandersMake in Belgium. Dr. Moin obtained his Ph.D. in CS from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 2022. He also has a Master’s in CS and an Executive MBA in Innovation and Business Creation. His research is focused on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineering (SE), particularly AI4SE and SE4AI, emphasizing hybrid quantum-classical computing. Besides research and teaching at UCCS, Dr. Moin reviews top academic journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), PLOS ONE, SoftwareX, SoSyM, Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), and SEKE. Dr. Moin is passionate about encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as empowering students, particularly the underrepresented groups in society, to start their ventures based on what they learn at the university. 

Resources

amoin@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Design Two-Part UCCSlead Workshop Series on Establishing Viable UCCS Student Clubs and Organizations Featuring DFEI Ethics Principles. This project would explore the intersection of ethics, leadership studies, and student clubs and organizations within student affairs in higher education.  Both workshops would be offered to all interested UCCS students—but marketed specifically to officers of student clubs and organizations—at in-person trainings held during the 2024-2025 academic year and virtually as Canvas courses.

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Cody Parish serves as the Program Director of the Chancellor’s Leadership Class and UCCSlead at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. In his role, he leads his team in hosting dynamic leadership and service experiences that bring exciting growth opportunities to UCCS students. Cody’s mission is to be a resource for leadership development for all UCCS students no matter where they are in their college careers. Cody graduated with his master’s degree in English: Literary & Cultural Studies from Illinois State University, writing his thesis on the horror films of James Wan. So, during the day Cody works within leadership studies, but he moonlights as a horror studies scholar. He co-teaches a GPS course that employs horror metaphors as useful tools to understand the college experience. When not supporting student success through his staff position or teaching, Cody enjoys reading fiction and comics, watching movies and video game playthroughs, playing board and card games (he’s the co-advisor for the UCCS Fellowship of Game Enthusiasts, after all), and, more recently, re-engaging his roots in outdoor activities.

Resources

cparish@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Developing an assignment for a  School Society and Diversity course that delves into the ethical issues surrounding standardized testing. 
Conduct interviews with K-12 students to understand their desires and expectations regarding their school experiences. These interviews would serve as the basis for a video titled "I Am More Than a Test Score." 

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Curtis Turner, a seasoned educator with over three decades of dedication to nurturing young minds. Beginning his journey as a dedicated teacher, Turner's passion for education and mathematics propelled him into leadership positions, including that of a Principal and later a Community College Dean. Throughout his career, he has embodied a spirit of lifelong learning, consistently striving to innovate and enhance educational experiences for both students and colleagues.

As a professor, Turner has shared his wealth of knowledge and experience with aspiring educators, instilling in them the same dedication and passion that has defined his own career. His diverse experience has not only aided in enriching the minds of countless students but has also served as a testament to the power of perseverance and intellectual curiosity.

Beyond his professional accomplishments, Turner's proudest achievement lies in his family. As a devoted father and grandfather, he cherishes the opportunity to impart wisdom, support, and love to the generations that follow in his footsteps. His roles as a father and grandfather exemplify his commitment to nurturing growth, both in the classroom and within his own family circle.

Through his unwavering dedication to the field, Curtis Turner hopes to cement his reputation as a true luminary in the field of education, leaving behind a legacy that will continue to inspire for generations to come.

Resources

cturner4@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

As the faculty advisor for the Impact Marketing Club, I am thrilled to announce the launch of two transformative programs that will significantly impact our community and campus: Catalyst Consulting and Non-Profit Unite.

These initiatives are designed to deeply embed ethical decision-making across various disciplines, promising to be transformative not only for our university but also for the broader community.

Catalyst Consulting:

Catalyst Consulting will engage students from the College of Business and draw participants from all academic disciplines, offering them the opportunity to engage in real-world marketing consulting for local small and medium-sized enterprises. With ethics as the guiding principle, Catalyst Consulting will provide these diverse students with practical experiences that emphasize ethical business practices.

Non-Profit Unite:

Non-Profit Unite aims to create a networking and educational hub for over 4,000 local non-profits. This project will promote ethical practices through TED Talk-style events and workshops. Non-Profit Unite will attract students from social sciences, communications, leadership studies, and more, alongside community leaders, fostering a rich, interdisciplinary environment focused on ethical discourse and practice.

These initiatives reflect our commitment to ethical practices and community engagement, providing invaluable experiences for our students and substantial benefits for our local community.

Impact

Coming soon!

Biography

Paul is best known for his three-decade career with Salesforce, Dell, and Cisco Systems, during their respective periods of highest and record-achieving growth. He managed some of the industry’s most complex and successful sales teams, receiving awards such as Dell’s Sales Person of the Year and peer-nominated Excellence in Leadership honors.

Paul is best known for his three-decade career with Salesforce, Dell, and Cisco Systems, during their respective periods of highest and record-achieving growth. He managed some of the industry’s most complex and successful sales teams, receiving awards such as Dell’s Sales Person of the Year and peer-nominated Excellence in Leadership honors. He has held executive positions with four VC-funded startups and serves on the boards of REI, The Salvation Army, USA Triathlon, Pikes Peak Athletics, and the SWL Foundation, which he founded.

Currently, Paul teaches ethical marketing at the University of Colorado, chairs the SWL Foundation, and heads advancement efforts for Resource Exchange International (REI).

Paul is an Ironman and utilizes his experience from athletic competitions to empower para-athletes and mentor individuals navigating challenges or losses in ability. He is an active training partner with a select group of para-Olympic athletes.  His desire to help others led him to his work with the Suicide Prevention Coalition, where he actively speaks, leads support groups, and mentors.  

Paul holds a B.S. in Finance from Biola University, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Business Psychology program.  He and his family live in Colorado Springs, CO.

Resources

pyankey@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Ethics Is Musical:  Exploring Ethical Practices through Indigenous Protest Music

Acquisition of Cultural knowledge and the exploration of the students’ implicit and explicit biases create an understanding of a minoritized groups’ strengths and struggles. Students encounter dissonance from clients and lack the understanding of the cause for the dissonance. Ethics is Musical will demonstrate a creative way of teaching ethical principles and standards to students while considering cultural influences.

Impact

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Ila DeBose, LCSW is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Practicum Education Director in the Bachelor of Social Work program in the UCCS College of Public Service. Ila is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado and Arkansas. She holds her Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina (2003) and her Bachelor of Arts from Xavier University (1990).  Ila brings over two decades of social work practice experience and seven years of academic teaching experience.  She worked for over 20 years in behavioral and mental health services providing services to diverse populations ranging in age from five to 90 years old. She has worked in community mental health as well as held a private practice for 15 years.

Ila has taught courses in BSW social work at the University of Arkansas – Fort Smitha as well as UCCS.  Those courses include Human behavior in the social environment, Diversity, social and economic justice, General social work practice and several other bachelor's level intervention courses.

In 2022, Ila co presented with colleagues in the UCCS social work program at the CSWE Annual Program Meeting, a national conference, on the topic of using simulation to foster ethics in field practicum students. Ila will co present at the 2023 CSWE Annual Program Meeting titled Building an anti – racist practice in the classroom and the field.  Ila continues to serve the community and others in other states through presentations, serving as a board member, and volunteering her time.

Resources

idebose@uccs.edu

  Ethics Education Project

Accelerating Ethical Decision Making of Pre-Service Teachers

Building on a research concept conducted by Gary Klein, Joseph Borders, and Neil Hintze for first responders and military personnel, (where they were able to demonstrate significant performance improvement to decision making under stressful situations), I developed an ethics based awareness and scenario training module that will be implemented in collaboration with students and faculty from UCCSTeach/ALP/COE Secondary Teacher Licensures, and the Department of Counseling and Human Services.

Impact

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

• Powerpoint of Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Cory Gavitt has worked in education for 21 years. He began teaching in Colorado Springs School District 11, where he taught science and engineering for 14 years. Before teaching, Cory roamed the wilds of California, Arizona, and Nevada as a geologist for several engineering firms. Cory’s own academic studies came from the University of Wisconsin (go Badgers!), where he earned bachelor’s degrees of science in Geology and Geophysics. Cory was drawn to UCCS for his master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction in 2002 and returned in 2015 when he became a senior instructor training the next generation of STEM teachers with UCCSTeach.

Resources

cgavitt@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Develop an ethics case competition (assignment) where students in the first- and second-year cohorts of the UCCS MS Athletic Training (MSAT) program are challenged to present a solution to an ethical dilemma based concepts and theories of sound ethical decision making, judged by faculty and current practicing clinicians. 

Focus Areas

Ethics in Sport, Ethics in Health & Wellness 

Impact

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

•  Video Presentation 
• PowerPoint Presentation

Biography

Margaret “Margie” Hunt, MS, LAT, ATC, is a Principal Instructor in the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Science. She earned her Master of Science in Physical Education from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education (Athletic Training focus) from the University of Iowa. She began her teaching career in 2013 as an instructor at UCCS teaching various undergraduate and graduate health science courses. She currently teaches primarily in the MS Athletic Training (MSAT) program and serves as the MSAT Clinical Education Coordinator. Margie’s teaching focus is on applied learning experiences in sports medicine. Margie is also a certified athletic trainer and limited scope x-ray operator. Before joining UCCS, she worked nearly two decades in the sports medicine department of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). Margie continues to provide contracted medical support to Olympic, Paralympic and community athletic programs. 

Resources

mhunt2@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Going for the Green:  The Ethics behind LIV Golf and the PGA Tour

Impact

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Jon Husby serves as the Principal Program and Internship Coordinator at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs PGA Golf Management Program. He assists students as they develop their golf careers through 16 months of internships and teaches the PGA of America’s Facility Management curriculum. Jon graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with degrees in Biology and Wildlife Ecology. He enlisted in the Army as a Cavalry Scout and served 8 years on active duty including deployments overseas to Iraq. He ended his military career in the Army Reserves as a Psychological Operations Specialist. Jon attended the University of Colorado PGA Golf Management Program after his military service and earned his PGA Membership and degree in Business Administration in 2015. Jon lives in Woodland Park, CO with his wife Joanna and boys Wesley and Chase.

Resources

jhusby@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

In English 4880 course, applied Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Principles and virtue ethics to incorporation of the personal in existing literature and student writing.

Impact

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

I am a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). I have a Ph.D. and M.A. in Comparative Literature form the University of California, Irvine. I am interested in how rhetorics of the self and personal experience influence how we live, feel, and relate to ourselves and others; to social, cultural, and political movements; and to institutions. My sites of research are wide-ranging, encompassing truth and reconciliation efforts in South Africa, motherhood and family in the United States, the genre and practice of life writing, and rhetorical pedagogy in the era of “truth decay”. Across these diverse sites, I aim to illuminate how the personal and life narratives function rhetorically, in ways that are both productive and problematic. I’ve written two monographs – From Apartheid to Democracy: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (Penn State UP, 2014) and The Case for Single Motherhood: Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations (forthcoming with University of Alabama Press) – as well as articles for academic journals and essays in edited collections. My current project is an examination of intimacy, motherhood, and family; this project has me dancing on the boundaries of varies genres of creative non-fiction. I teach a range of upper-division rhetoric and writing courses, including Advanced Rhetoric and Writing (ENGL 3010), Rhetorics of Post-Apartheid South Africa (ENGL 3300), Rhetorics of Family (ENGL 3400), and various iterations of the Rhetoric and Writing summit course, e.g. Public Writing, The Ethical Rhetor, The Rhetoricity of the Personal (ENGL 4880).

Resources

kmack@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Citizen Science in the Age of the Digital Humanities: Rewarding Experiences, Uncompensated Labor, and the Ethics of Engaging the Public in Collaborative Research.

Impact

Dr. Martinez-Davila plans to engage History Department graduate students in discussions regarding ethics, as well as citizen scientists who are working on the Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Spain transcription project.  As of August 2023, over 300 citizen scientists are collaborating on Deciphering Secrets' Zooniverse project.

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Roger L. Martínez-Dávila is a Professor of History at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. His first monograph, Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain, was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2018. From 2014 to 2017, he served as a Guest Curator for the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and its exhibition, Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition, and New World Identities (2016). During 2015 through 2018, he served as a European Commission Marie Curie Fellow (2015-2018) at the Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid where initiated his Deciphering Secrets project, a citizen science project focused on the transcription of medieval manuscripts pertaining to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interrelations. Presently, he co-directs an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities titled, the Immersive Global Middle Ages, which empowers traditional humanists to create their own digital virtual reality worlds that reveal the Middle Ages through different religious and cultural lenses. 

Resources

​​​​​​​https://grants.uccs.edu/deciphering-secrets/

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/profdrrogerlouismartinez-davila/deciphering-secrets-unlocking-the-manuscripts-of-medieval-spain

rmartin8@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Integrate and expand DFEI principle-based ethics in to new vertically aligned course AMT3601 - Ethics Development, and Diversity in Leadership, and new USAFA Group Commanders Executive Workshop.

Impact

Ethics and Character Development in Action:  The Human Domain of Leadership and Leadership Development

Markus Moeder-Chandler, EdD, NCC, BCC provides insight into the science and practice of training ethical decision making in leadership, character development, empathy development, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence. Research tells us that the most effective leaders are promoted for specialized skills, but fired for lack of ethical decision making, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skill. Learn how UCCS and the United States Air Force Academy have designed programming and course work to train the trainers of the next generation of ethical and insightful leaders!

Faculty Roundtable Resources

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Dr. Markus Moeder-Chandler currently serves within the Department of Counseling and Human Services in the College of Education. Dr. M-C works across all degree programs in DCHS and serves as the BA Human Services Program Coordinator. Dr. M-C works within the Air Officer Command MA and Academy Military Trainer Certificate Program, in partnership with the United States Air Force Academy, to train officers and enlisted service members in concepts of Ethics, Character Development, Counselor Development, and Leadership.

Resources

mmoederc@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

All Chartered Financial Analyst Institute members and candidates must abide by the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct. Violations may result in disciplinary sanctions. Students will review cases and discuss how they can serve clients fairly and ethically when they face similar situations in their finance professions.

Impact

Ethics Case Studies were applied to the following courses:

• Fixed Income FNCE 4900 (31 students)
• International Finance FNCE 6400 (3 students)

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Dr. Jin Peng was educated and received a PhD in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Connecticut (UConn), School of Business in December 2020. The University of Connecticut’s School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). At the University of Connecticut, Dr. Peng did her dissertation under the supervision of Professor Shantaram Hegde. She has published at Economics Letters. Her research accomplishments include being selected as the recipient of GLINT and CRCW research grants at UCCS and School of Business Named Research Scholarship and CIBER Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship at UConn. Dr. Peng has presented or discussed at American Finance Association Annual Meetings, Financial Management Association Annual Meetings, Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and Global Chinese Real Estate Congress. Her research area covers Investment and Corporate Finance.  

Dr. Peng has taught Financial Management and International Finance courses at both undergraduate and MBA levels for seven years at multiple AACSB accredited institutions including University of Connecticut, Northern Kentucky University and John Carroll University. She is also experienced in teaching investment and cases in finance, either online or in person. She received Recognition for Excellence in Teaching from the Office of Provost and Outstanding Teaching Award at UConn. She has invited local industry professionals to her classes as guest speakers and has been interviewed by business owners in media coverage about her perspectives on investment. Dr. Peng has also worked as an investment consultant in CITIC Securities Shenzhen, writing financial analyst reports and providing investment advice to customers.  

Resources

jpeng@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Asian Ethics and Identity in Theatre

Impact

AJ plans to host a colloquium to engage students and community members in ethical questions surrounding Asian casting in film and theatre communities, the telling and re-telling of Asian-based stories, and how we can increase our ethical awareness within these issues. Chay Yew, renowned playwright and theatre director, and Vanessa Kai, an actress best known for Kung Fu (2023) and Gabriel's Inferno (2020) plan to also be in attendance during this talk and will give their personal insights on these ethical dilemmas, while engaging with students, staff, and faculty alike. 

Faculty Roundtable Resources:

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video of presentation

Biography

Abigael (AJ) Vafiades started her journey with the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative in 2019 as a Students Ethics Ambassador for Kevin Landis in the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Theatre and Dance Program. During her studies, she was fortunate enough to interview several guests as part of Landis' Prologue series regarding the ethical culture engrained in the arts. AJ is excited to pursue her own research project concerning "Asian Ethics and Identity in Theatre." She hopes this project will be the first of many with the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative and the UCCS Ethics Fellowship Program.

Resources

avafiade@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2022-23

Develop an instructional series to assist faculty in teaching and implementing DFEI principles into a course while incorporating the same into their instructional practice.

Focus Area

Behavioral Ethics

Impact

Implemented self-paced "Ethics First" badge curriculum on Canvas course management platform.

Integrated DFEI principles into GPS 1010_005:  New Horizons, including guest speaker and decision-making exercise about ChatGPT.

Developed an Introduction to the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative (DFEI) Collegiate Program at Pueblo Community College module

• Introduction to DFEI Collegiate Program UCCS COB
• Ethics in Everyday Life
• DFEI Ethical Decision-making Walkthrough
• Student Involvement in DFEI

Developed and shared Establishing Ethical and Acceptable Use of AI/ChatGPT lesson with the languages, arts, and humanities division chair at Kaua'i Community College who is sharing it with colleagues and other division chairs which uses the DFEI decision-making steps to help establish class protocol for the use of AI or ChatGPT in the classroom.

Faculty Roundtable, "ETHICS: A Model for Incorporating Principle-based Ethics in Any Curriculum."

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Video Recording of Presentation

Biography

Coming soon.

Resources

adodson2@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

My project is to develop an interactive debriefing session to follow a guided tour of Dachau concentration camp (for the students on a Germany study abroad trip) using DFEI principles as a framework for the discussion.  Relevant ethical themes include Obedience to Authority.  The most applicable DFEI principles would be integrity, accountability, respect, and rule of law. 

Focus Area

Behavioral Ethics

Impact

Designed a series of activities around the Holocaust and global genocides for several constituencies – a Germany study abroad class, the university, and the community. This fellowship builds upon a meeting with the educational department of Yad Vashem sponsored by the Jewish National Fund in June 2022. The objectives were: 1) to sensitize study abroad students to Munich about the Holocaust; 2) to utilize the UCCS Daniels Fund program to provide an ethical framework to help our community intellectually process genocide; to help our students recognize how businesspeople enabled, assisted, and empowered government actors to perpetrate these heinous acts; and to prevent members of our community from becoming collaborators in future atrocities. 

Activities included International Holocaust Remembrance Day speaker, reading and reflection of Night by Elie Wiesel, German Business Culture speaker, and pretzel-making. (7 students, up to 40 attendees at events)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day:  Genocides around the World (Video Link)

Faculty Roundtable: "Cultivating Ethical Business Decision-Makers"

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Dr. Carol Finnegan possesses an undergraduate degree in History from The George Washington University, an MBA in Agribusiness and Finance from Santa Clara University and a PhD in Retailing from Michigan State University. In addition, she has a diploma in Polish Language and Culture from the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. After university, she worked with consulting firms specializing in international economic development on contracts with USAID and the World Bank, among others.

Currently, Dr. Finnegan is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She has also taught at the National Taiwan University, Cologne Business School, and the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and presented a seminar at Sol Plaatje University in South Africa. Dr. Finnegan serves on the CU-Denver Center for Business Education and Research Advisory Council.

She teaches international business, marketing strategy, retailing. Her research focuses on international marketing and retailing strategy as well as sports marketing. Her research has been published in various international business and marketing journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Marketing Letters, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Management Reviews, and International Marketing Review. At present she is collaborating on a revision of an international retailing paper, and the writing of two manuscripts -- one in international marketing strategy and another on sport marketing.

Resources

cfinnega@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

We often make subconscious decisions with ethical implications. The process of writing and designing information is rife with opportunity for such decision-making. By shining light on the spaces within this process where ethical decision-making may be overlooked, we begin to see where we may make assumptions about our purpose for communicating, who our audience is (and isn’t), and what we feel they need (and don’t need).

My curricular goal was to replace one of our existing analysis-focused units with one that encourages students to take a closer look at ethical decision making as it relates to technical communication. Students examined intentional use of plain language and the effect on specific communities, ethical decision-making when considering visual rhetoric, and understanding how the value we ascribe to elements of the rhetorical situation affect our communication decisions, among other things. The course also briefly introduced various ethical models for consideration.

Focus Area

Ethics in Technology

Impact

Integrated DFEI Principles into TCID 3080 Advanced Professional & Technical Writing - starting summer 2023 (19 students)

Faculty Roundtable:  "Hidden Ethics:  Locating the Spaces Where Ethics Live in Professional & Technical Writing

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Video of Presentation

Biography

Baye Herald is a Principal Instructor in the Technical Communication & Information Design Program at UCCS. She teaches Advanced Professional & Technical Writing and Technical Editing, and serves as a Teaching Fellow for the LAS Faculty Resource Center. She specializes in online pedagogy and designing accessible courses with high-impact teaching strategies.

Resources

cherald@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

My project is centered on developing, with students, new modules, assignments, and experiences that ask students to learn about the DFEI principles and then apply them to real-world historical case studies of international business practices and their impact on a range of stake holders, including business owners and investors, managers, workers/employees, and local communities. Students will select case studies from a range of organizations including transnational business as well as other type of regional and community organizations operating along the US-Mexico border from the general period from 1960s to 2000s.  

Focus Area

Behavioral Ethics

Impact

Integrated discussion of DFEI Principles into four graduate seminars (32 students)

• Ancient History
• Medieval European History
• Latin American History
• South Asian History

Faculty Roundtable, "Got Ethics?  Integrating Ethical Principles into Everyday Educational Discussions"

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video recording of presentation

Biography

Christina M. Jiménez, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of Internships in the Department of History at University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Latin American History from the University of California, San Diego. She teaches a range of classes from lower-division survey courses and first-year student seminars to graduate research seminars in Mexican history, Latinx/Hispanic histories, Latin American History, comparative urban history, immigrant histories, and citizenship studies. Her historical research specializes in Mexican History, Latin American History and the history of cities and citizenship. Her book Making an Urban Public: How the City Revolutionized Citizenship in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1930 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), named as an “Outstanding Academic Title of 2019” by Choice, a publication of the American Libraries Association, explores citizenship, urban politics, and popular culture in the Mexican city. She has published in several anthologies and academic journals. Her current book project is City of Sellers: Itinerant Urban Workers [Ambulantes] and Municipal Politics in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1870-1940 (book manuscript in progress). She has also started a new collaborative dialogue with scholars in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia centered on the history of the informal economy and public space.

Jiménez is a workshop facilitator, leading challenging conversations around diversity, inclusion, systems of privilege, systems of oppression/ marginalization, and strategies for social change. She is co-editor (with Ferber, Herrera, and Samuels) of The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege (McGraw-Hill, 2008).   

Jiménez has received several recognitions and honors, including, the UCCS Chancellor’s Award (2016), UCCS Award for Faculty Contributions to Diversity and Inclusiveness (2013), the “Outstanding Teaching Award” from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences (2008).

Resources

cjimenez@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

It has never been more apparent how important athlete autonomy and well-being are in youth sport. The ethics of youth sport that inform coaching and sport parenting need to be elevated to build a foundation that protects and elevates the well-being of athletes from the very beginning of their sport experiences, and continues throughout the lifetime of sport participation and increasing levels of competition.  I anticipate creating both classroom and community outputs. For the classroom, I will incorporate ethical principles and considerations in lecture materials and in final applied case studies for the graduate and undergraduate level Sport and Exercise Psychology courses (HSCI 3310 & 6011). With these, I would like to bring in a parent and coach panel to these classes to discuss these considerations with students and the challenges faced today.

Focus Area

Ethics in Health and Wellness

Ethics in Sport

Impact

Integrated DFEI Principles into HSCI 3310 Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology, including a panel discussion with community members involved in youth sport (28 students)

Faculty Roundtable:  Athletes with Choices, Athletes with Voices:  The ethics of supporting athlete autonomy and athlete well-being in youth sport

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video Recording of Presentation

Biography

Jess Kirby is an assistant professor in the Health Sciences department at UCCS. Dr. Kirby's research focuses on exploring the sport and physical activity experiences of individuals across the lifespan, as well as the impact of social connection and peer relationships on psychological well-being in sport and physical activity settings. She specializes in qualitative and arts-based research methods including narrative, ethnography, portraiture, and research poetry. Dr. Kirby is the director for the new Mountain Lion Strong program on campus, aimed at supporting the well-being, resilience, and mental health of all UCCS student-athletes. She currently serves as the graduate program coordinator for Health Promotion, Assistant Director for the Center for Critical Sport Studies, and the faculty advisor for the UCCS Fitness Buddies program.

Resources

jkirby@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

The focus of this project is to actively promote and amplify the DFEI ethical principles through Orientation Leader Training Curriculum. With particular focus on integrity, trust, accountability, transparency, respect and viability, orientation student staff will collaboratively determine how these principles relate to their job responsibilities and optimize new students’ onboarding experiences and processes. Orientation Leaders will actively apply ethical principles with on-the-job decision-making situations and identity ethical implications in the context of new student orientation. The curriculum will include scenario-based training and discussion exploring of behavioral ethics. In the spirit of expanding outreach to other educational institutions, an overview of the projects impact will be submitted for consideration as a peer reviewed presentation to the orientation regional conference (NODA).

Focus Area

Behavioral Ethics

Ethics in the Organization

Impact

Revised Peer Mentorship training to utilize DFEI Principles in discussion of ethical dilemmas (22 students)

Faculty Roundtable: "Integrating Ethical Principles into Peer Mentorship Training"

• PowerPoint Presentation

Biography

Coming soon.

Resources

nlockwoo@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

Develop ethical decision-making modules for use throughout the academic year.  One set of modules will focus on the ethics of supervision and leadership.  The other set of modules will focus on the ethics of self-determination.  Two modules would be for students and two modules for field instructors.  At the end of the school year students will join with their field instructor to do an interactive ethical decision-making exercise based on cases from the field.  Since there are multiple modules, this program would last the entire school year.  All students currently in field would participate, which would be at least 100 undergraduate and graduate students a year. 

Focus Area

Behavioral Ethics

Ethics in the Organization

Impact

Faculty Roundtable:  "Hand in Hand: Development of an Ethical Training Program for Students and Practicum and Internship Supervisors"

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Video Recording of Presentation

Biography

Malikah is a clinical assistant professor and the MSW field practicum director of the social work department.  Malikah arrived at UCCS in August 2020 to help start the new social work program, which was recently accredited.  Dr. Marrus has presented locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally on social worker education, the justice system, inter-professional collaboration, hun a’ rights, and ethics.

Resources

mmarrus@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

My ethics education project will focus on ENGL 1410 and the third level of stasis theory. I will introduce the DFEI principles as a standard for students to use when analyzing published arguments and while making their own researched arguments.

Focus Area

Coming soon.

Impact

Integrated DFEI Principles into ENGL 1410 - Rhetoric and Writing II:  Research and Argument (60 students).  An early in-class activity focused on use of AI/education technology, ethics discussed in detail in later stages of the research process.

Shared activity/response to AI technologies with colleague at Valencia College in Florida.

Faculty Roundtable, "DFEI Principles in Research Writing Through Stasis Theory."

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Video recording of presentation

Biography

Michelle Prose holds a Masters in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition from Colorado State University-Pueblo and is completing a Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis in Operations Management from UCCS.  She has taught First Year Rhetoric and Writing at UCCS since the fall of 2016, and has taught ENGL 1300, 1305, 1308, 1310, and 1410 in that time, along with occasional GPS classes.

Resources

mprose@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

Utilize the DFEI Ethical Principles within NURS 6120 Nursing Research Course. The goal of the project will be to have students investigate the DFEI principles, write a "summary statement" on how these principles can support a ethical concern within the nursing profession and/or clinical practice.  To commit to this project, I will create a module that focuses on the DFEI principles and create learning activities that link the principles with nursing practice among graduate students.

Focus Area

Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact

Integrated DFEI Principles into NURS 6120:  Nursing Research (40 students)

"Do Ethics Really Matter?" Featuring Guest Speaker Kate McCord, Ph.D., R.N.

Faculty Roundtable:  "Ethics Engagement:  Professional Obligation?"

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Video Recording of Presentation

Biography

Dr. Kathy Prue-Owens is a retired Army Nurse Corps Officer who served in the United States Army for over 30 years. Her specialties include cardiovascular, critical care, burn care, nursing research and administration. Prior to joining the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) College of Nursing, Kathy practiced extensively in the clinical setting and served as the Medical-Surgical Nursing Consultant to the Army Surgeon General. As an Assistant Professor at UCCS, she has provided clinical, educational, research and cultural expertise for the university, community, and national organizations. Kathy teaches undergraduate and graduate level nursing research courses that include ethics.  She is currently active in professional nursing organizations, with an appointment to the Board of Directors for the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence and the Board of Directors for the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum. Kathy recently became the President-elect for the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum. 

Resources

kprueowe@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

While suicide ideation is discussed among multiple avenues within our 60-credit graduate counseling curriculum, the primary course where suicide assessment is introduced and practiced is within COUN 5550 Crisis Counseling, Trauma, and Disaster Work. Currently, the syllabus for this class entails textbook/article readings and lecture regarding suicide risk and assessment, followed by a mock session with a peer, concluding with peer feedback from the interaction.  As a part of the DFEI project, I would like to expand on this format, while integrating several DFEI principles of cross-discipline practice.

Focus Area

Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact

DCHS Professional Development Day

COUN 5550:  Crisis Counseling, Trauma and Disaster work (Fall 2022)

Conference Presentations:

• “The Impact of Therapy Dogs in Counselor Education” (with Ethics Fellow, Dr. Diane Stutey) 
• “Trauma-Informed Decision-Making: Employing the 10 Principles of Ethical Practice.” (with Ethics Fellow, Dr. Cortny Stark)

Faculty Roundtable, "Suicide and Grief through an Ethical Lens"

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Video Recording of Presentation- Coming soon

Biography

Coming soon.

Resources

krogalla@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2022-23

This project aims to expose emerging and established student affairs professionals to the big five ethical paradigms in order to enhance their abilities to navigate the ethical decision-making process through three proposed projects:

1. Integrating DFEI and related professional ethical principles into LEAD 5010.
2. Integrating DFEI and related professional ethical principles into a co-curricular experience in collaboration with the Student Affairs Association.
3. Offering at least one ethics “lunch and learn” experience for student affairs professionals at UCCS.

Focus Area

Ethics in the Organization

Impact

Revised curriculum for LEAD 5010: Personal and Professional Foundations (the first course in the M.A. in Leadership with a Concentration in Student Affairs in Higher Education program) to include DFEI principles and ethical paradigms that guide decision-making in higher education.

Faculty Roundtable, "Understanding the Big 5 Ethical Paradigms that Guide Decision Making."

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Video Recording of Presentation

Biography

Coming soon.

Resources

ntapiafu@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2020-21

Developing a new case study for the SPMT 1000 Introduction to Sport Management with DFEI principles, develop class discussion and guest speakers for ethical applications.

Focus Area

• Ethics in Sport

Impact

• Hosting the World Cup or Improving Infrastructure- March 18th Ethics Roundtable
  • 19 individuals were impacted. Compared DFEI principles and other ethical approaches common in sport tourism and management. Applied DFEI principles and other ethical approaches to complex ethical dilemma involving the intersection of mega events, sport tourism and community development.
• Using ethics in decision making - class lecture and activity
  • 44 total individuals were impacted. Identified and summarized each of the DFEI principles. Compared DFEI principles with ethical approaches common in sport management. Applied DFEI principles and other ethical approaches to complex ethical dilemmas.
• Lance Armstrong ethics reflection - class lecture and activity
  • 44 total individuals were impacted. Identified and summarized each of the DFEI principles. Compared DFEI principles with ethical approaches common in sport management. Applied DFEI principles and other ethical approaches to complex ethical dilemmas.

Resources

taicher@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Integrate DFEI into all PGMT internship course (PGMT 1100, PGMT 2100, PGMT 2110, PGMT 4100, PGMT 4110), as well as PGA Program related activities to include the annual GMG Cup with NMSU (already a DFEI event) and monthly PGMSS meetings with leaders in the local/national community. The DFEI integration in the UCCS PGA Golf Management Program will include ethics-based speakers, training related to ethics and internship, career preparation and ethics, ethics in all golf competitions (7 events held each semester, plus 3 national events, also includes Player Development), and applicable practicum assignments related to the PGA curriculum. Particularly, this will be evident in PGMT 4203, which is under development and set to be delivered each Spring starting Spring 2022. This capstone PGA course will require the students to apply their knowledge of the PGA curriculum to develop a model golf facility; DFEI principles will be required in the Mission/Vision and culture of the model. 

Focus Area

• Ethics in Sport

Impact

• November Ethics Roundtable Presentation
• "The Spirit of The Game"
• Courses integrated with Ethics:
  • PGMT 1100 Cooperative Internship Level 1 - 13 students impacted
  • PGMT 2100 Cooperative Internship Level 2 -  18 students impacted
  • PGMT 2110 Cooperative Internship Level 2 - 7 students impacted
  • PGMT 4100 Cooperative Internship Level 3 - 10 students impacted
  • PGMT 4110 Cooperative Internship Level 3 - 2 students impacted
• Tournament Ethics Agreement
  • All UCCS PGA Management students are required to sign and adhere to the Tournament Ethics Agreement.

Resources

mbacheld@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Develop a course module and online videos for ethical principles in cybersecurity focusing on the ethics of penetration testing and of responsible disclosure.

Focus Area

• Ethics and Technology

Impact

February 16 2021 Roundtable

Remote Learning of Ethical Decision-Making in Cybersecurity

Resources

gbloom@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Promoting Ethics in Socio-Technical Interactions through Teaching and Public Lectures - to bring public awareness to an emerging area in the ethics of technology in which the interactions between autonomous agents (e.g., AI social media participants) and humans can be designed to promote positive social impacts. Courses: CS 4370/5370.

Focus Areas

• Ethics and Technology

Impact

• Engineers who make Selfish Machines
  • DFEI Roundtable: April 15th Ethics Roundtable Presentation PowerPoint
  • Held a public lecture in the UCCS "Philosophy in the City" series.
• Exposed students to the ethical principles and the importance of ethics in CS 2150, CS 5720, CS 4730 and CS 5730. Combined he impacted over 50 students with the knowledge of the ethical principles. 

Resources

 pbrown2@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Ethical Principles in Social Work Practice: The intent of this project is to conduct a series of ethics training opportunities for students and community members during the 2020-2021 academic year. These training opportunities include integrating DFEI ethical principles and the NASW (National Association of Social Workers) Code of Ethics training into our new field instructor orientation and new student orientation, as well as holding a full-day ethics workshop during the Spring semester, which will be open to students and community members.

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization 

Impact

September Ethics Roundtable Presentation

September Ethics Roundtable Video

Resources

mfortson@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

The purpose of the project will be to integrate a module on Universal Ethical Principles into NURS7100 Organizational Systems Leadership. This module will be framed from a healthcare organizational leadership point of view and the ethical choices that leaders in today’s healthcare world need to make. Because leaders must operate interprofessionally, it is hoped this pilot module will lead to the opportunity to provide interprofessional education in the realm of leadership ethics and ethical principles. 

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization
• Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact

• October Ethics Roundtable Presentation
• Dr. Deborah Kenny taught the Online Graduate Nursing Leadership and Organizational Systems Class in both the Fall (2020) and Spring (2021) term. She dedicated a two week module in her course to leadership ethics which impacted 14 doctoral nursing students.

Resources

dkenny@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Develop a compelling teaching tool for HPNU 2020 (Human Anatomy and Physiology II, spring) to parallel and extend the HPNU 2010 (Human Anatomy and Physiology I, fall) experience (centered on coughing and sneezing) in order to introduce and reinforce ethical principles in the area of hand hygiene for health care workers.

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization
• Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact

Ethical Impact of Even the Smallest Tasks of Our Days: Teaching the Need for Hand Washing

Resources

dlykins2@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project 

Academic Year 2020-21

Integrate the DFEI ethical principles into Business Law 2000.  

Encourage and support a legal ethics event in the campus Pre-Law Society.  

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

December Ethics Roundtable Presentation

"The Power of Examples"

Resources

Business Ethics Case Assignment 

bmonson2@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Develop a criminal justice re-entry simulator that fully integrates the DFEI ethical principles in which student play the role of an inmate recently released from correctional custody. 

Develop a Mock Trial curriculum on ethics in courtroom, legal knowledge, litigation skills and the intersection of law, ethics & courtroom.

Course redesign of CJ 4121, Ethics in Criminal Justice from learning as a DFEI Ethics Fellow.

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

• Learning from Others: Why it's Worthwhile to Compare Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines - DFEI Roundtable Discussion
  • 2021 March 5th Roundtable Presentation PowerPoint
  • Why it's Worthwhile to Compare Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines 
• Ethics in Medicine, Criminal Justice, and Business: Competing Ethical Perspectives Panel
  • Multi-disciplinary panel discussion of ethical approaches and ethical dilemmas. 33 individuals impacted.
• Daily Dilemmas - Classroom Lecture and Activity.
  • Identified and summarized each of the DFEI principles. Compared DFEI principles with ethical approaches common in medicine and criminal justice. Applied DFEI principles and other ethical approaches to complex ethical dilemmas. Impacted 29 individuals.

Resources

dolson@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Trauma-informed Ethical Decision-making: Implementing a Multidisciplinary Curriculum
In the post COVID-19 world, educators have an ethical responsibility to employ a trauma-informed approach in the classroom and teach students how to utilize a trauma-informed lens in their fields of practice. During the 2020 to 2021 academic year, I plan to implement a series of lessons on trauma-informed ethical decision-making in each of my three counseling and human services courses, which include COUN 4900/5900 The Science of Behavioral and Process Addictions, COUN 5720 Internship (mental health counseling), COUN 2990 Addiction Counseling Skills. I will also collaborate with the instructors for other counseling and human services courses, and the CJ 4121 Ethics in Criminal Justice, to share this curriculum. 

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

• Ethical Considerations in SUD Counseling & Trauma-Informed Ethical Decision-Making
  • Class lecture and activity with the UCCS COUN 2990 Addiction Counseling Skills class.
• Trauma-Informed Ethical Decision-Making
  • (09/22/2020) Lecture and activity with the UCCS Criminal Justice Program. Impacted 22 individuals.
  • (09/24/2020) Class Lecture and activity with UCCS COUN 5720 Counseling Internship Class. Impacted 12 individuals.
  • (10/01/2020) Lecture and activity with the UCCS Criminal Justice Program. Impacted 45 individuals.
  • (10/15/2020) Class lecture and activity with UCCS Campus Connections Practicum class. Impacted 20 individuals.
  • (12/09/2020) Class lecture and activity with UCCS COUN 4900/5900 Process Addictions Class. Impacted 22 individuals
• "The Trauma-Informed Ethical Decision-Making Model: An Integrative Framework"
  • Submitted conceptual manuscript - Publication in The Journal of Trauma Studies in Education
• "Trauma-informed Ethical Decision-Making in the Post COVID-19 World"
  • April 5th Ethics Roundtable Presentation
  • Trauma informed Ethical Decision-Making in the Post COVID-19 World

Resources

cstark@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Integrate the DFEI ethical principles into BUAD 3100, BUAD 3200, and BUAD 3300 - the College of Business ROAR Program. Include modules specifically related to the DFEI ethical principles. Also incorporate the DFEI ethical principles in the ROAR mentor training (business professionals mentoring our ROAR students).

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

• "The Importance of Values in Career Development"
  • 2021 February 10 Roundtable PowerPoint Presentation
• Dr. Meghan Stidd worked on implementing ethics into the ROAR program here at the College of Business. The ROAR program is a career development program that all undergraduate students take. Within the three, one credit hour courses she created a module dedicated to ethics. These modules impacted over 600 students.

Resources

mstidd@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Create table-top case exercises to be used in any leadership communication course from the vantage point of smaller organizations in the southern Colorado region. 

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

Ethics Roundtable Presentation 

"When Leaders Lie" Video 

Resources

esvetiev@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Cinematic Ethics
Integrate the DFEI ethical principles into FILM 1000: Introduction to Film Studies (Fall 2020) and FILM 4252: Kubrick (Fall 2020) and develop a new FILM 3000-level course on ethics in Film (Studies) tentatively titled FILM 3900: Special Topics in Film Studies: Cinematic Ethics (to be taught in Spring 2021).

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

To be provided

Resources

rvondass@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2020-21

Integrate DFEI principle-based ethics into Johnson/Beth-El Health Science 5100 Introduction to Interprofessional Education.  Interprofessional Education has been identified as a curricular focus for college.  There has been discussion that this  one credit course (HSCI 5100) could be added into the undergraduate nursing curriculum in addition to health sciences where it currently is taught. 

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization
• Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact

April 20th Ethics Roundtable Presentation

Ethics: A Catalyst for Interprofessional Education & Teamwork

In Fall 2021 Paige attended The NEXUS Summit which is an international conference for healthcare students, educators, providers, policy makers, and more to work and learn from, with, and about eachother to drive the work that is being done to change practice, education, and health. The conference is put on by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. While attending the conference Paige presented her poster on "Ethics: A Catalyst to Interprofessional Education & Teamwork": Whitney NEXUS Poster

Resources

pwhitney@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019: 

Enhanced the existing INFS3000 course material to expand upon the ethical challenges and dilemmas faced by organizations today with the large amount of data and individual analytics that these organizations now maintain. Specifically:

• Ethics and Technology: Expanded upon the challenges organizations face regarding what information is now stored for their customer base. How is this information stored and protected? How is this information used to the benefit of the organization? What transparency should/does exist to make users aware of the amount, type, and use of this data to the company’s user base. Integrity, Trust, Transparency, Rule of Law.
• Ethical responsibilities of organizations with large data sets during and following data breaches. What is the organizations ethical responsibility to those customers whose data was exposed? Accountability, Transparency, Trust, Rule of Law.
• What are the ethical and moral risks to an organization that allows the data they’ve collected to be used by third parties for advertising purposes. What ethical obligation does the organization hold in notification and transparency to their users? Integrity, Trust, Accountability, Transparency, Fairness, Respect, Viability

Focus Areas

• Ethics and Technology
• Ethics in the Organization 

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Contact: rcook2@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

Creating a series of learning opportunities that would be incorporated across the MS Athletic Training (MSAT) curriculum to emphasize ethical decision making at is relates to the athletic trainer as a member of the health care team and athletic organization. The MSAT program will begin in Fall 2018 with 5 “core” classes in which I anticipate this series of assignments would be implemented. The series would start with ethical foundations as it relates to athletic training and the National Athletic Trainers Association’s Code of Ethics, progressing towards ethical decision making in a high-fidelity simulation. I would also like to explore how the Giving Voice to Values curriculum might fit into these opportunities.

Focus Areas

• Ethics in Sport
• Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Contact: aelder@uccs.edu 

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

As an educator for 25 years, I have come to realize that the teacher evaluation system is often not utilized in a way that supports teacher growth through authentic observations and feedback.  I want to explore how to support current and potential educational leaders in understanding the importance of ethics in the teacher evaluation process to include but not limited to:

• Establishing criteria for the teacher evaluation process that will work well within their school community to include developing the roles and responsibilities for leaders and for teachers throughout the process
• Conducting classroom visits consistently and fairly
• Exploring various observation tools to gather factual data regarding the classroom environment and instructional strategies being utilized
• Developing a system to provide effective feedback based on the 7 Keys to Effective Feedback
• Unpacking the teacher evaluation rubric to gain a clear understanding of what each standard means in action as well as supporting teachers in understanding the expectations
• Using data to determine how to provide differentiated professional development, coaching and mentoring to support various needs of teachers

Through capitalizing on each of these areas, we will be specifically considering the moral principles that govern us as leaders in education to support and grow teachers to reach their full potential.  We will explore the Statement of Ethics for School Administrators and relate this to the work in each of the above-mentioned categories. 

Policy Statement 1100.2 Statement of Ethics for School Administrators

An educational administrator's professional behavior must conform to an ethical code. The code must be idealistic and at the same time practical, so that it can apply reasonably to all educational administrators. The administrator acknowledges that the schools belong to the public they serve

for the purpose of providing educational opportunities to all. However, the administrator assumes responsibility for providing professional leadership in the school and community. This responsibility requires the administrator to maintain standards of exemplary professional conduct. It must be recognized that the administrator's actions will be viewed and appraised by the community, professional associates and students. To these ends, the administrator subscribes to the following statements of standards.

The educational administrator:

1. Makes the well-being of students the fundamental value in all decision making and actions.
2. Fulfills professional responsibilities with honesty and integrity.
3. Supports the principle of due process and protects the civil and human rights of all individuals.
4. Obeys local, state and national laws and does not knowingly join or support organizations that advocate, directly or indirectly, the overthrow of the government.
5. Implements the governing board of education's policies and administrative rules and regulations.
6. Pursues appropriate measures to correct those laws, policies and regulations that are not consistent with sound educational goals.
7. Avoids using positions for personal gain through political, social, religious, economic or other influence.
8. Accepts academic degrees or professional certification only from duly accredited institutions.
9. Maintains the standards and seeks to improve the effectiveness of the profession through research and continuing professional development.
10. Honors all contracts until fulfillment or release.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics
• Organizational Ethics

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Ethics Roundtable

Ethical Teacher Evaluations - Making Friends or Enemies? (PPT)

Contact: tkilling@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

The revision of two existing courses that would help the development of ethics awareness in the fields of criminal justice and criminology during the 2018-2019 academic year at UCCS. These two courses are CJ 3170 Crime Prevention and Analysis and CJ 5010 Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety. Establishing strong ethical principles and training students to build ethical standpoints are very important in these courses as students use real crime data provided by law enforcement agencies from different cities, such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Colorado Springs. While analyzing and modifying these data sets in class, students are extensively exposed to information to which general public cannot usually access, such as household demographic factors, crime locations (addresses), police officer’s badge number, and the type of crime occurred. 

Students must write a final research paper from their data analysis and crime mapping, even if they are not supposed to release specific information in the data set to the general public. Therefore, in the final paper, it is important to address where the data came from, how the data was secured, and what information was selected (or screened) to protect the privacy and security of the observations in the data set. Students need to learn how to address these ethical points in their final reports.

1. Students will have a mandatory reading list of ethical issues.  After in-class discussion about the contents in these reading materials, students should submit a review paper as their mandatory assignment.
2. Students will incorporate a specific section, a Research Ethics section of Research Strategy chapter, in their final research paper. In this section, students should address and ensure how issues of research ethics are properly taken into account. Students should also make sure that they have considered the DFEI ethical principles and how research ethics are influenced by their chosen research strategy. Finally, students will need to attach an Ethics Consent Form at the end of their research paper, if needed.

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Articles and News

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

Developing a means to develop a fair and very explicit methodology to discern between individuals who intentionally violate ethical standards and to those who unintentionally violate ethical standards. 

Computer Science graduate students who will be leaders in the field will use the methodology to help them to recognize their own potential for ethical violations and manage/lead so that their staff/students reduce rationalizations for intentional ethical violations (and be able to tell the difference).

Faculty will have a better understanding when student ethical violations would be responsive to educational approaches or escalation to disciplinary process.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics
• Ethics and Technology

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Articles and News

Regents Grant Faculty Sabbaticals 

Tenure List 2016

Sponsored Research Fetes Faculty, Staff Accomplishments 

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

1. Integrate the awareness of data privacy and security in the INFS 3400 course, Database Management. The focus will be on the field of health informatics or health IT. Relevant case studies and discussions will be developed and incorporated in the class lectures and homework.

2. Host the discussion board for Denver Chinese School (DCS) at Highland Ranch, CO. Presentations will be conducted to identify ethics related scenarios in the academic world for first- or second-generation immigrants from China. Discussions will be developed to help with the decision-making process for Chinese community members in the higher education environment. Some examples of topics include understanding the importance of copyright and seriousness of plagiary, etc. This effort will help reduce misunderstanding and conflict between Chinese immigrants and the educational system in the US.

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization
• Ethics and Technology

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Ethics Roundtables

April 2019 Ethics Roundtable

Evil or Not Evil

Articles and News

Faculty Profile: Jian "James" Ma has been teaching since he was a boy

Contact: jma@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

Place principles of integrity, trust, accountability, transparency, fairness, respect, and rule of law at the center of two courses, Modern Sociological Theory and Sociology of Popular Culture.

The course Modern Sociological Theory focuses on the importance of ethical conduct in modern democracies. Sociology of Popular Culture explores tensions that emerge from media’s ethical function in a democracy and its profit orientation in a free market. Students will explore the promises and pitfalls of “ethical business practices” and “ethical consumption”. Students will work on group based projects on cultural institutions, such as museums, theme parks, music venues, sports facilities, etc., in order to explore the relationship between popular culture and citizenship.  Specifically, the relationship between organizations (cultural institutions) and learning the ethical conduct of citizenship. Further, questions of the ethical uses of media technologies will be raised.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics
• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Ethics Roundtables

April 2019 Ethics Roundtable

Protest Patriotism 

Articles and News

Regents Grant Faculty Sabbaticals 

Regents Award Tenure to Nine

Montez de Oca Earns Book Award

My View: Football's Bigger Problems

Contact: jmontezd@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

Integrate the DFEI principles and Giving Voice to Values approaches to values-driven leadership in nursing courses - NURS 4200 (Care of the Childbearing Family—for senior BSN students) and in NURS 6910 (Care of Acute Conditions & Women’s Health—for Nurse Practitioner graduate students).

• Undergraduate nursing students would review original perinatal ethical dilemma case studies and have a group assignment of walking through the steps of ethical decision-making, applying universal ethical principles in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics and the DFEI. 
• The Nurse Practitioner students would use similar case studies of perinatal ethical dilemmas and require application of ethical principles and decision-making to their new roles as health care practitioners in an organizational setting.

Some examples of ethical dilemmas which are unique to perinatal nursing and women’s health include: Maternal Versus Fetal Rights, Fetal Research, Reproductive Assistance (including ownership of unused embryos), and Stem Cell Research. Additional ethical considerations involve gender and racial determinants and inequities in women’s health care. Case studies would include situations where there is maternal-fetal conflict (such as forcing interventions on a pregnant woman in the best interest of the fetus, which infringes on the autonomy of the mother.)

Focus Areas

• Ethics in the Organization 
• Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact 

To be provided

Contact: mwahl2@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2018-2019

Enhance student learning of ethics by developing lecture materials, new assignments, and case studies for three courses: COMM 3150 (Communicating in Contemporary Teams), COMM 4900 (Virtual Teams), and COMM 2440 (Leadership Theory and Practice).

COMM 3150 and COMM 4900, are concerned with how to collaborate with others in team settings and involve students in multiple collaborative projects. Assignments will help students recognize how ethical principles are connected to team collaborations and push students to think about what form(s) the ethical principles such as integrity, accountability, and transparency might take in the context of team work when attempting to remedy or mitigate social loafing behavior.

COMM 2440 (Leadership Theory and Practice) is concerned with helping students acquire theoretical groundings for what takes to be an effective leader in the workplace and apply the theories to their own leadership development. Drawing on 1-2 case studies from recent scandals. Assignments will help students investigate, evaluate and prescribe the cases from the perspective of each of the eight ethical principles. To further enhance student learning in developing their abilities for ethical decision making, students will role play original hypothetical but realistic ethical dilemma scenarios that students are likely to encounter in school and at work. By completing the case studies and role play in this course, students will be able to apply ethical principles to real-world decision making.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics
• Ethics in the Organization

Impact

To be provided

Contact: kyoon@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2016-2017: 

Applied the Daniels Fund Ethics Principles within the context of workplace diversity training and organizational diversity management. Mini-cases were incorporated in MGMT 3300 course sections, an experiential activity was incorporated in HRMG 4380 course sections.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics
• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 164 Students (MGMT 3300 and MGMT 4380)
• 19 Educators

Resources

November 2016 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Ethics - Diversity and Inclusion: Beyond Compliance

Articles and News

• Seven faculty tapped as ethics fellows
• Tenure list: 2016

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2016-2017

Develop and implement in HSCI 2080 Profession of Dietetics course three case studies that will encourage the students to examine ethic principles and their own ethical beliefs, integrate the Code of Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics into their personal and professional code of conduct, and apply it to real-life situations that have ethical components and implications. 

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics
• Ethics in Health and Wellness

Impact

• 47 Students
• 14 Educators

Resources

Articles and News

Seven faculty tapped as ethics fellows

Contact: ahutchin@uccs.edu 

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2016-2017

Ethics components will be incorporated in classes related to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. An ethics component will also be incorporated in the training students receive while performing undergraduate and graduate research in these areas. There will be two perspectives of ethics that will be considered. i) As the scientific and engineering communities build artificial intelligence that can think and act like humans, what is the role of ethics in research and practice? Ii) As huge amounts of data are being collected, primarily from the Internet and mobile technology related activities, what role ethics should play as information is being mined about individuals and then used for various purposes by corporations and governmental entities.

CS 3050-Social and Ethical Impacts of Computing; CS 4820/5820-Artificial Intelligence; CS 5710-Evolutionary Algorithms, 5860-Machine Learning, 5870-Artificial Neural Networks, CS 5880-Information Retrieval: CS 5890---Computational Linguistics; REU Summer Training: The fellowship applicant, Kalita, runs a summer camp for 10 undergraduates who come from around to country to engage in machine learning research.

Focus Areas

• Technological Ethics

Impact

• 155 Students
• 21 Educators

Resources

Ethics Roundtables 

March 2017 Ethics Roundtable

Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

Articles and News

Seven faculty tapped as ethics fellows

Regents Approve 22 for Sabbatical

Faculty at Work: Jugal Kalita

Contact: jkalita@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2016-2017

The responsible, ethical, and legal use of information is a topic of critical importance in both academia and the business world. Students will learn how to apply ethical and legal principles to the selection, use, and communication of information by participating in the following activities: Online Learning - Students will be able to access information on the ethical use of information through the Kraemer Family Library's Copyright Education Initiative website. Topics covered will include determining the quality of information, properly citing sources in order to avoid plagiarism, and reusing the copyrighted works of others in a manner that is compliant with U.S. Copyright Law. Blackboard Integrated Instruction - Information on the legal and ethical use of information will be made available through a Blackboard module. Quizzes will be integrated into the module to help assess students understanding and retention of information in the module. UCCS instructors will be able to assign this module to students for supplementary learning or as a graded assignment. Course Integrated Instruction - Instructors will be able to request course integrated instruction on : Using Library resources to find scholarly resources; Evaluating the quality of information found on the World Wide Web; Properly citing sources so as to avoid plagiarizing the works of others; Reusing works in research and course assignments in a manner that is compliant with U.S. Copyright Law. The materials being developed aligns with numerous Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Principles: Integrity: Communicating information to stakeholders, including instructors and fellow students, in an honest and ethical manner. Trust: Utilizing reputable sources of information to build trust with others. Transparency: Using verified data and information to develop and maintain open lines of communication with others. Respect: Understanding and utilizing information in a way that demonstrates respect for the intellectual property of others. Rule of Law: Complying with the rights and responsibilities afforded to users under U.S. Copyright Law.

Focus Areas

• Technological Ethics

Impact

An amazing resource for the entire UCCS campus and community.

Resources

Cut and Paste? The Ethical Reuse of Copyrighted Content (PPT)

Ethics & Information - Identifying Quality Sources (Video)

Plagiarism and Copyright - Ethical and Legal Considerations (Video)

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2016-2017

Design a senior seminar course on the ethics of public anthropology in Fall 2016 and will teach the course in Spring 2017. After a few weeks of introduction to questions of ethics in public anthropology, students will analyze several existing public outreach projects produced or otherwise informed by anthropologists. Collectively, we will develop a template for assessing such projects in terms of how well they comply with ethical principles. 

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics

Impact

• 33 Students
• 9 Educators

Resources

Articles and News

Going Public: Teaching Students Ethical Design in Public Anthropology

Contact: ksmith5@uccs.edu

Kimbra Smith CV

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2016-2017

Students enrolled in the nonprofit management certificate area will work with me in a service learning experience that will contribute the development of nonprofit ethics awareness in the state of Colorado and beyond. Under my guidance, as a practitioner and faculty member, students will develop a decision-making framework for nonprofit boards of directors of various sizes that helps board members incorporate and deal with the challenges of social return on investment based data.  Students will then facilitate their ethics training based upon this framework for local nonprofit boards of directors.

The development and resulting decision-making framework aligns with Bill Daniels' ideal that ethics instruction be tied to principles rather than focus only on legal aspects of leadership.  At the end of the experience, training materials will be made available to interested nonprofit community members as well as through distribution channels offered through the Daniels Fund. In addition, I will write a pedagogical case study to help other University communities replicate our service learning experience.

Focus Areas

• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 13 Students
• 9 Educators

Resources

Ethics Roundtables

November 2016 Ethics Roundtable Presentation

Ethics - Evaluation Ethics for Nonprofit Boards

Articles and News

Seven faculty tapped as ethics fellows

Contact: rwinters@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2016-2017

Promote ethics education within the SAHE program to prepare students to be ethical leaders in higher education, as well as with student affairs professionals state-wide. This project will include use of my role as the Faculty Representative with the College Personnel Association of Colorado (CPAC), a state division of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), one of the two leading professional associations for the student affairs profession.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics

Impact

Ethics in Student Affairs Presentations were attended in 2016 (UCCS) and 2017 (CSU-Pueblo) that reached 110 student affairs professionals from across the state from the following institutions: UCCS, CSU-Pueblo, Adams State University, Colorado College, Pueblo Community College, Pikes Peak Community College, CU-Boulder, Colorado Technical University, University of Colorado-Denver, Metropolitan State University-Denver, Johnson & Wales University, the Community College of Denver,  and Colorado State University.

Resources

Articles and News

Dr. Patricia Witkowsky was awarded the Quality Matters certification (as of fall 2016 only 16 courses have received this certification in the CU system) for her online course LEAD 5260 College Student Development Theories.

Dr. Patricia Witkowsky will receive a Global Intercultural Research Center Seed Grant for her project entitled "Experiences of U.S.-Trained Student Affairs Professionals Working in Higher Education Institutions Abroad". Dr. Witkowsky will use the findings from her study to  inform student affairs graduate preparation programs in the U.S. and to apply for additional funding related to global intercultural education.

Contact: pwitkows@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2013-2014: 

Development of course materials specifically in-class activity centered on Giving Voice to Values with the action elements that created a self-assessment, developed a series of mini-cases and a role-play about unethical conduct of peers or co-workers. Facilitated student developed debate issues that revolve around ethics and the principles set forth by the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative.

Focus Areas

• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 110 Students
• 21 Educators

Resources

February 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Bringing Ethics to Life in the Classroom

Outreach

November 2013 Community Outreach Presentation:

Based on this ethics subject matter expertise, Dr. Bluhm presented to the Young Professional and Rising Professional Organization.

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2014-2015: 

Developed a Media Management (COMM4500) course taught in the fall 2014 semester at UCCS. The course was offered to both undergraduate and graduate students in a hybrid format. As a new course, eight students enrolled in the course, however larger class sizes in future are anticipated. The reach of the course expanded beyond the classroom, as the students worked with outside organizations to address an ethical media management dilemma (eight organizations). The class hosted three guest speakers who are leaders in local media. The class affected approximately 20 people.

After participating in the Daniels Fund Consortium Ethics Summit on social media, Dr. Brengarth organized a Media Management Ethics Summit student workshop at UCCS held in November 2014.

Focus Areas

• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 79 Students
• 46 Educators

Resources

November 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Media Management Ethics Summit - Panel experts from academia, print, digital content, public relations and broadcast responded to ethical issues in their industry

January 2013 DFEI Faculty Roundtable Presentation:

Social Media Ethics - A course to address today's evolving ethical dilemmas

Articles and News

• Media, faculty join forces to discuss ethics
• UCCS center hosts U.S. infrastructure protection conference

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2013-2015: 

Developed and delivered two workshops on the topic of ethical dilemmas faced by law enforcement personnel and the strategies for resolution. Curriculum materials included handouts, video scenario presentation, role-playing exercise, and presentation by police and corrections personnel. The curriculum emphasized students' awareness and professional readiness to prepare for success in the efficient management and resolution of ethical issues that may occur in their careers. Developed the Policing and Corrections student workshops held on the UCCS campus.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics

Impact

• 83 Students
• 41 Educators

Resources

October 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Ethical Challenges in Criminal Justice at the Supermax prison - Professional ethical issues with guest presenter Gene Atherton, former Director of Prisons for the Western Region in Colorado

December 2013 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Boundaries Violations Research - Ethical issues with guest speaker Susan Jones, Ph.D., former Warden of Colorado State Penitentiary

Behavior Choices Among 326 Staff at Colorado State Penitentiary (PPT)

Articles and News

• Cathcart Wins Teaching Award

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2013-2014: 

Developed short answer and multiple choice questions for ACCT2010 and ACCT2020 that focus on the three pillars of fraud (opportunity, motivation, and rationalization). These materials are based on the text book discussion but will go farther than the authors and are available for use by all ACCT2010/2020 instructors and for inclusion in semester-end assessment tools in those courses.

Focus Areas

• Ethics of Fraud

Impact

• 300 Students
• 24 Educators

Resources

October 2013 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Best practices regarding course content, ethics in the classroom, and handling ethical conduct in the classroom

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2013-2014: 

Dr. Cutter developed a wide variety of educational materials that included a syllabus for a new Ethics of Life and Health (PHIL3130) course taught online for the first time at UCCS in fall 2014. Materials include a series of 15 reflections exercises and a short case study to use in the course. Because of discussions with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pre-Med students must complete PHIL3130, increasing the number of students at UCCS that will be exposed to ethics education based on principles. With this new course and continued teaching of Practical Ethics (PHIL3180), students are learning principle-based ethics from three members of the faculty. Dr. Cutter presents an ethics case study to students at the Gateway Program Seminar session ("Unreality").

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics

Impact

• 95 Students
• 23 Educators

Faculty Roundtables

September 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Teaching Ethics Case Study Online 

Teaching Case Study Ethical Analysis Online

August 2013 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Case Study Approach in Ethics Education: A Suggestion Integrating Theory and Practice

Articles and News

Cutter Named CU President's Teaching Scholar

Three Faculty Earn Quality Matters Certification

Resources

Contact: mcutter@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Projects

Academic Year 2013-2015

Dr. Czaplewski has developed original Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) cases for use in Promotion Management and Strategy (MKTG4650). Each case requires students to explore significant ethical issues related to marketing, advertising and IMC overall and lecture materials associated with cases.

• Case #1 (Fall 2013) - Chipotle Green Marketing & Corporate Social Responsibility and Case #2 (Spring 2014) - Partnership for a Healthier American & Campaign fo End Obesity: Obesity Countermarketing Campaign.
• Case #1 (Fall 2014) Patagonia Green Marketing and Case #2 (Spring 2015) TOMS and the Buy One Give One Business Model.

Focus Areas

• Ethics of Fraud
• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 153 Students
• 37 Educators

Resources

Ethics Roundtables

April 2015 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Ethical Issues in Advertising and Promotions

March 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Exploring Ethical Issues in Advertising & Promotions

Articles and News

Faculty Panel to Discuss Freedom of Speech Inquiry 

Business Faculty Earn Research Paper Award 

Contact: aczaplew@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2013-2014

Dr. Ferguson created a student discussion guide for an original direct-consumer case used in the graduate Marketing Strategy (MKTG6000) course. The discussion guide facilitated student thinking and engagement with the case. The overall assessment of the case was positive and students found the ethical decision making framework to be valuable. MBA students received this ethics education.

Services Management and Marketing (MKTG4400) course includes several ethics modules. 1) a presentation on ethical issues in marketing and ethical decision-making, 2) three Ethics Unwrapped videos with discussion questions, 3) a GVV reading and exercise  -- Enablers for Voicing Values, and 4) integration of ethical decision making into the final term project.

Focus Areas

• Ethics of Fraud
• Organizational Ethics

 Impact

• 44 Students (MKTG6000)
• 24 Educators

Resources

Ethics Roundtables

April 2015 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Integrating Ethics into the Service Marketing Course

March 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals: The Case of Low T

Articles and News

Weiss, Ferguson to Chair General Education Implementation 

Contact:  jferguso@uccs.edu 

Ethics Education Projects

Academic Year 2013-2014

Dr. Joyce focused on the ethics of community health programs through engaging community and business partnerships for student learning. A Colorado Community Center Collaborative (CCCC) was formed with the vision to promote health equity by supporting positive youth development in community centers. At a presentation in a UCCS Faculty Ethics Roundtable, the Colorado Springs Park and Recreation Department presented how they incorporated the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Principles in working with other organizations in the collaborative.

Academic Year 2014-2015

Nursing students in Community Health Nursing (N4400) participated with the CCCC partners to initiate a healthy community program/service-learning project to further community work for healthy community programming. In the 2014-2015 academic year, 104 UCCS students and 12 community high school students participated in learning experiences on personal accountability for healthy living.

Focus Areas

• Behavioral Ethics
• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 196 Students
• 41 Educators

Resources

Faculty Roundtables

February 2015 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Strengthening Community Through Partnerships

April 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Practicing Social Justice in a Market Justice World

Articles and News

Diversity Excellence Grant Awarded

Ethics Education Projects

Academic Year 2013-2014

In 2013-2014 modules were designed based on appropriate case studies for a variety of courses throughout the Mechanical Aerospace Engineering (MAE) curriculum. MAE was used as a test case for this curriculum development before attempting to create a College-wide program. Case studies will be developed for the courses in Materials, Thermodynamics 1, Fluid Dynamics, Strength of Materials, Machine Design 1, Propulsion and Engineering Design. Dr. Ketsdever organized a project focused on the ethical dilemma facing many scientists and engineers that are involved in the defense industry. Technology has been a part of wartime activities since the dawn of civilization. Whether it is more "efficient" spear tips in the form of forged metals, gunpowder, or rocketry, advances in technology lead to "advances" in weaponry on the war field. Many engineering students struggle with the ethics of working in industry on defense projects. Often this stems from a feeling of ultimate responsibility for how a particular technology is deployed. This is a very pertinent topic for engineering students particularly in the Colorado Springs community based on the number of defense industry jobs in the local economy. Several ethical questions examined included: Is there an expectation of responsibility for how technology is implemented? Is there a responsibility when developing technology to understand all potential applications of that technology? Do you have faith in the leadership with control of the technology? Is there a difference between defensive and offensive weapons? What is the role of deterrent technology in actually saving lives?

Academic Year 2014-2015

The modules that were created were presented to students in MAE 4000 (MAE Seminar) over the fall 2014 and spring 2015 semesters. The fall 2014 semester presentation focused on the Manhattan Project while the spring 2015 semester incorporated a personal ethical dilemma during Dr. Ketsdever's work with the Air Force Research Laboratory. The Daniels Fund Ethic Initiative Principles were the basis for student discussions

Focus Area

• Technological Ethics

Impact

• 205 Students
• 36 Educators
• 2 Community Members

Resources

Faculty Roundtables

April 2015 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Ethics and the Military Industrial Complex: The Role of the Engineer - Technology and war - the insurmountable link

January 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Engineering Ethics: The Space Shuttle Challenger  - A Case Study in Engineering Ethics

Articles and News

Regents Approve Faculty Sabbaticals

Faculty Earn Promotions

Workshop Blasts Off at UCCS

Contact: aketsdev@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Project

Academic Year 2013-2014

Incorporated a specific ethics project of identifying specific ethical issues within the business they were studying within OPTM 3000 (Fundamentals of Operations Management) classes. In Fall 2013, 19 issues were identified and in Spring 2014 an additional 22 were identified.

Worked with the College Task Force to develop the honor code/code of conduct that is in place now at UCCS.

Focus Areas

• Technological Ethics
• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 86 Students
• 21 Educators

Resources

Faculty Roundtable

February 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Student Identified Ethical Issues in Business Organizations - Results from student ethical audits in organizations

Contact: dleupp@uccs.edu

Ethics Education Projects

Academic Year 2013-2014

Dr. Metzger focused on developing and refining teaching materials for the UCCS Bachelor of Innovation's Teams Class. Over the course of two years, these materials reached business and non-business UCCS students in multiple sections of Innovation Team: Analyze and Report (INOV2010), Innovation Team: Research and Execute (INOV3010), and Innovation Team: Design and Lead (INOV4010). These materials included an online intervention designed to help students gain awareness of ethical issues at multiple levels (i.e., the individual, organization, and industry) that might be encountered in entrepreneurial settings.

Academic Year 2014-2015

An ethics questionnaire (IRB #14-063) provided quantitative data on the impact ethics education had on student learning, comparing students in the experimental group that received the ethics education material to those in the control group that were not exposed to the material. Qualitative data was also collected from the team's final reports to their clients (where they expand upon the ethical issues they uncovered at the individual, organizational, and industry levels) and from open-ended responses on the questionnaire. An analysis of these data suggest that these materials influenced students' abilities to identify actual, or potential, ethical issues related to their client businesses and their awareness of their own susceptibility to ethical lapses.

Focus Areas

• Organizational Ethics

Impact

• 105 Students
• 42 Educators

Resources

Ethics Roundtables

April 2015 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Ethics in Interdisciplinary Student Teams - Classroom outcomes and experiences

May 2014 DFEI Ethics Roundtable Presentation:

Ethics at the Interface: Bridging students' classroom experiences with real-world phenomena

Contact: mmetzger@uccs.edu