SCEC Ethics Champions

Biography

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Impact

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Resources

AJ.Arredondo@lamarcc.edu

Biography

Ishani Banerji is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the School of Business Administration, Fort Lewis College. Prior to joining Fort Lewis College in 2020, she was at the University of Texas San Antonio and the Institute for Consumer Research at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She earned her PhD in Social Psychology in 2013 from Indiana University. Her research focuses on social influence and consumer behavior. One of her recent projects examines the ways in which the environmental and financial impact of returned products can be mitigated by improving the resale value of these products. She currently teaches introductory and upper-level Marketing courses with a focus on experiential learning projects that impact the business community in the Durango region.

Ishani grew up in India in a military family and moved to the United States for her undergraduate education. Within the US, she has lived in Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana, California, Virginia, Texas, and now Colorado. She is a firm believer that Colorado has the best sunshine!

Impact

• Ishani and a colleague integrated ethical content into several courses:
  • MK 480:  Marketing Strategy and Ethics
  • BA 314:  Ethics and Social Responsibility

Resources

Biography

Deanna is passionate about ethics because of the impact that ethics has on a person’s life, the outcomes of organizations, and ultimately society. As a result, she enjoys researching this topic and sharing her expertise with all who will listen. Currently, Deanna is serving as an adjunct instructor at Adams State University’s School of Business. She and her husband Dale also own and operate their organic farm where they raise alfalfa, quinoa, flax, beef cattle, sheep, and poultry. Between these responsibilities and homeschooling her two boys, Deanna has found a busy, yet rewarding balance in life in which she can continue to be a life-long learner, apply her learnings, and share her knowledge with others.

Ethics Education Project (2018-2019)

Deanna’s approach to this year’s ethics project is that of the train-the-trainer model. Deanna will offer a presentation entitled “The Ethics of Competition” as part of the ASU’s faculty lecture series on December 6th. The contents of this presentation result from her research into the correlation that seems to exist between the competitive climate and the ethical climate in organizations. This presentation lends insight into why codes of ethics and organizational policies are often ineffective in curbing unethical employee behaviors and why good employees make unethical decisions. The ultimate purpose of this presentation is to encourage the audience to consider how the motives behind their goals can conflict with their goal of behaving ethically.

Additionally, Deanna anticipates hosting a Lunch-and-Learn workshop on ethics during the spring semester. Using Forsha’s (2017) article entitled Virtue and Moral Development, Changing Ethics Instruction in Business School Education, as the foundation for the discussion, Deanna’s goal for this workshop is to discover and explore the ethics conversations that are taking place across ASU’s campus and encourage more of these interactions. In line with the purpose of ASU’s Lunch-and-Learn program, which is to bring faculty and staff together to discuss and analyze important topics, this conversation will hopefully create an awareness for the value and need of ethics conversations particularly with our students.

Impact

Deanna Bartee hosted a faculty lecture entitled “The Ethics of Competition” to over 100 ASU students and several faculty and community members.

Resources

CV

Ethics Student Learning Outcome

Contact: dbartee@adams.edu

Impact

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Resources

Contact: susan.belport@csupueblo.edu

Biography

Dr. Paul Boone (he/his/him) is entering his 2^nd year as a history instructor at Trinidad State College. He earned a M.S. in Educational Specialties in 2010 and a PhD in History in May 2017 from the University of Nevada, Reno. His research and teaching specialties include modern U.S. history focused on popular culture, cultural politics, & public education; cultural/intellectual U.S.  history concentrated on the intersections of class, gender, race, and sexuality in the constructions of collective identities; and pedagogy centered on active involvement and positive collaboration. Dr. Boone is an active member of the Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity committee at Trinidad State College. He is working on developing Ethics-based curriculum for humanities courses and building an active social network among students and champions in the Southern Colorado Ethics Consortium.

Impact

In the 2022-23 Academic year, Paul integrated DFEI Principles into eight history courses:

• History 1210:  U.S. History to Reconstruction
• History 1220:  U.S. History since the Civil War
• History 1310:  Western Civilization, Antiquity to 1650
• History 1320:  Western Civilization since 1650
• History 1110:  World History before 1500
• History 1120:  World History since 1500
• History 2015:  20th Century World History
• History 2105:  Women in U.S. History

Paul advised the 2021 Trinidad State College team to win second place in the U2 track at the UCCS case competition.

• 2021 UCCS Case Competition Communique Article

Resources

paul.boone@trinidadstate.edu

Biography

Angela Brubaker takes complex educational ideas and refines them into the applicable curriculum to improve educational foundations and redefine the building blocks of academic competencies. She has a bachelor's in Business Management with an emphasis in criminology and is currently working on Masters's Degree in Education with a Criminal Justice focal point. Her career background is in educational studies, including eight years of technical education instructing, over five years of statistical analysis for educational programs, and five years as a technical instructor overseeing the career education department for higher education with a criminal justice emphasis.

Angela is a Career Technical Education (CTE) Coordinator and a Part-Time Professor for Pueblo Community College. She is excited to take her experience into a broader focus on the foundational educational studies of college programs.

When Angela is not focusing on her career projects, Angela can be found working out, on family vacations, and making memories with her family and her animals.

Impact

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Resources

Angela.Brubaker@pueblocc.edu

Impact

In my two academic years of service as the ASU DFEI Ethics Champion, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018, ASU faculty, students, staff, and administration have all participated in various DFEI workshops and presentations, benefiting from the opportunity and the experience. The San Luis Valley community too has been engages as our students competed in the UCCS Case Competition, and earned runner up nationally in the Viewers' Choice with their ethics based video, "Gas Up? An improper use of company assets".

Gas Up? An improper use of company assets

Faculty Roundtables

October 2017 Faculty Ethics Resource Workshop

Resources

Contact: zenabuser@adams.edu

Biography

Shane Callahan is part-time faculty in philosophy and the ePortfolio coordinator at Adams State University. He earned his PhD in philosophy in spring 2020 from the University of South Florida, previously earning an M.A. in philosophy from University of South Florida (2015) and an M.A. in philosophy from Georgia State University (2011). He specializes in normative and metaethical theory and 19th century German philosophy. He has taught a range of classes centering on ethical theory and applied ethical reasoning. 

Impact

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Resources

scallahan@adams.edu

Biography

Dr. Caywood is an Assistant Professor of Social work at Colorado State University Pueblo

Impact

Integrated DFEI Principles in SW 625:  Intervention and Assessment for Children/Family; courses taught each semester.

Resources

matthew.caywood@csupueblo.edu

Biography

Jill Choate has been with Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO for six years. Previously, she taught for 20 years in both Nebraska and Colorado public schools serving students with disabilities. She earned her BS and MA degree’s from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the area of special education with an emphasis in behavioral disorders. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Texas-Austin in Special Education Administration. She has held licenses in elementary education, special education, and educational leadership. Recently, she has helped to develop the Master of Art: Special Education program at Fort Lewis College and is excited to begin educating others on the ethical rights of students and the ethical obligations of teachers working with people with disabilities. Helping others to understand hidden and visible disabilities and encouraging and supporting the ethical treatment of people with disabilities is a driving force in her life.

She has lived in Durango for 20 years with her husband and two children loving the mountain life. Jill grew up in Kansas as a child of teachers, so working in education and helping future educators understand the variety of students they will work with is second nature to her. She enjoys hiking, gardening, and traveling and looks forward to making a difference in her local community and beyond through this work.

Impact

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Resources

jnchoate@fortlewis.edu

Biography

Coordinator of Resident/Student Life

Resident-SGA-Student Life

Lamar Community College

Impact

Campus Teaching Ethics Workshop: Why Do Good People Engage in Unethical Acts?

Lamar Community College staff, faculty, and students were invited to an on-campus ethics training workshop, hosted by Pat Christensen and Mittie Helm on March 11, 2020. Mittie organized the event and the topic. The topic discussed was “Why Do Good People Engage in Unethical Acts?”. The workshop was an activity designed to improve student understanding about business ethics. Twelve staff and faculty members from LCC attended and one student. The feedback was positive from the workshop and attendees learned new information while being engaged through group discussion. During the workshop, the attendees discussed the following questions within their groups:

1. Studies show that people primed to think about business profits will make different choices than people facing the same decision who have been primed to think about activity ethically. Can you explain how that might affect you in your work life?
2. Can you think of a situation where you made a decision that you regret and probably would have chosen differently had you looked at the choice in a different way?
3. How do politicians and advertisers use framing to channel people’s decisions?
4. How might framing adversely affect your ethical decisions making in your projected workplace?
5. How can you work to ensure that ethical considerations stay in your frame of reference when you make decisions in your career and your life?
6. How can firms help their employees to keep ethical considerations in mind when they make decisions?

Resources

pat.christensen@lamarcc.edu

Biography

Jennifer DeBoer is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Western Colorado University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sustainable Business Management at the University of British Columbia. Prior to earning her Ph.D., she worked in hospitality and the wine industry, and spent six months abroad while working with Be the Change Academy – Kenya, a non-profit organization that aimed to provide entrepreneurial opportunities for impoverished young adults living in Kisumu, Kenya. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in Strategic Management and Business Communication, and a graduate course in Strategic Management for the Outdoor Industry. Through her teaching and research, Jennifer is interested in sustainable business management, environmental sustainability, and business ethics. In her free time, Jennifer enjoys hiking, camping, backpacking, and wildlife viewing. New to Colorado, she looks forward to learning to skijor with her Alaskan Malamute, Miska. 

Impact

Co-initiator and co-organizer of second Ethics BootCamp at Western for School of Business with UG and Graduate student participation (n=13)

Co-mentor for Western team in the 2022 Ethics Case Competition at UCCS (2nd Place finish)

Lectured about and collaboratively discussed ethics cases in BUAD 185: Business Communication (n = 65), BUAD 491: Strategic Management (n = 19), MBA 607: Strategic Management in the Outdoor Industry (n = 23)

Facilitated an ethics internship with one undergraduate student

Collaboratively submitted an original and revised manuscript on environmental justice to Organization & Environment 

Presented two business ethics cases with student co-authors at the North America Case Research Association 2020 Conference

Cotopaxi: Maintaining a Social Mission during Turbulent Times co-presented in the Social Impact and Sustainability conference track (virtual conference, October 2020)

Tentree’s Business Model for Environmental Stewardship co-presented in the Social Impact and Sustainability conference track (virtual conference, October 2020)

Tentree’s Business Model for Environmental Stewardship co-presented in the Social Impact and Sustainability conference track (virtual conference, October 2020)

Jennifer was a part of the team that advised the 2021 Graduate track first place winners at the 2021 UCCS case competition.

• 2021 UCCS Case Competition Communique Article

Resources

jdeboer@western.edu

Biography

Western State Colorado University Associate Professor of Business –Law: - teaching Water Law; Environmental Law, Business Law and Legal Environment of Business; Prior Co-Director of Energy Management Program. Attorney with over 20 years as General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, Senior Counsel, for start-up companies, multibillion dollar public companies and federal government; 10 years as complex Commercial Litigator. Member, Colorado State and 7th Judicial District Bar Associations; Admitted to: Colorado Courts, Federal District Court for District of Colorado, U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Tax Court

J.D. University of Denver Sturm college of Law; B.A. Western State Colorado University; and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Telecommunications University College, University of Denver

Impact

Academic Year 2020-2021

Mentor to three Western teams in the Ethics Case Competition at UCCS (6 students);

Taught ethics in the following courses:

• BUAD 210 Legal Environment of Business: Ethics Unwrapped: Role Morality; Ethics as the basis for substantive law (40 students)
• BUAD 210 Legal Environment of Business: Ethics Unwrapped: Role Morality; Ethics as the basis for substantive law (26 students)
• BUAD 210 Business Law: Stakeholder Model: Ethics and the Law in Businesses and Business Transactions (34 students)

Faculty host for Ethics Speaker Presentation: Mr. Jerome Mayne ‘Diary of a White Collar Criminal (approx. 70 students attending)

Academic Year 2018-2019

Mentoring of two teams in the Fall 2018 UCCS ethics case competition

Introduced the Ethics Principles in BUAD 210 Legal Environment of Business (two courses each semester) and BUAD 315 Business law (one course each semester)and referred to them throughout the various areas and theories of law covered in these courses.

Western’s School of Business hosted the first SCHEC Ethics Summit in Spring 2019. The school’s leadership and the University supported this event. Drs. Dykes and Laramie actively worked on Summit Spring, Summer and Fall of 2018 and the Spring of 2019.

Resources

Contact: jdykes@western.edu

Impact

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Faculty Roundtables

Ethics - "Championing Teaching Ethics Across the Spectrum of Academic Programs"

UCCS College of Business' Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative held an Ethics Roundtable Workshop, featuring expert panelists: - Warren Munick, Economics and Entrepreneurship Faculty and Chair of Economics Department, Pikes Peak Community College. Presentation: "Economic Discussions: Bridging Academics with Real World Issues" - Joe Easton, Department Chair Accounting and Business, Pueblo Community College.

Resources

Contact: Joe.Easton@pueblocc.edu

Biography

April joined the Pikes Peak Community College Cyber Security and Networking faculty in January, 2019. She earned her Masters from the University of Arizona, and her Bachelors from Judson College. She also holds Security+ and CCENT certifications, and is an active member of several local professional organizations, including ISSA (International Systems Security Association), IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), Infragard and WiCyS (Women in Cyber Security).

April has worked in several industries throughout her career, training and educating many students, ages 3-83. She is enjoying the community college environment, including advising the Cyber Club team, who have made a name for Pikes Peak Community College in cyber competitions nationally. Ethics are a key part of cyber security training, since many professionals possess the same skills as cyber criminals, from whom we seek to secure our data, offices, and systems.

April lived in Arizona for almost 25 years before relocating to Colorado Springs a few years ago.

Impact

1.    Classroom/Course Ethics Instruction
       a.    Existing course: CNG 132 – Network Security Fundamentals
              i.    18 Students were impacted. Other opportunities were restricted due to campus closures.
              ii.    Two Guest Speakers 
                    1.    Frank Gearhart, Ethics in AI and Machine Learning
                    2.    Arthur Cooper, PCI Compliance in Business
              iii.    DFEI Principles: Integrity, Accountability, Rule of Law, and Viability
Our guest speakers this semester especially highlighted the need for awareness in decision-making that affects automated systems, such as smart bombs and credit card transactions.
      b.    New Course Curriculum: The Cybersecurity department is in the process of developing our own ethics curriculum to be used in a new course or possibly implemented in other courses. 
              i.    This process includes reviewing current PPCC and CCCS ethics curriculum and determining the cybersecurity approach. Currently Ethics is a Philosophy course, with little input from Business or Cybersecurity professionals.
             ii.    This course will impact all Cybersecurity students; current enrollment is over 400 students.
             iii.    This course will be taught by anyone qualified in the Cybersecurity department, including Faculty and Instructors.
            iv.    The skills of Cybersecurity can be difficult to apply, as these same skills are used by criminals. It is imperative for students to be able to differentiate when and how these skills are acceptable, and when their use is illegal. All of the DFEI Principles apply to these skills, especially Integrity, Accountability, Fairness, Respect, and Rule of Law.
2.    UCCS Ethics in Cybersecurity Consortium/Event: This semester, the PPCC community participated and presented in this all-day event. 
       a.    At least 2 educators and 8 students participated for at least one session; many attended more sessions.
       b.    Attendance at this event created several opportunities for Daniels Fund Principles discussions in April’s courses. Participants were also given the opportunity to write a reflection paper on their experiences for extra credit. All Daniels Fund Principles were covered in discussions in all courses! Students really enjoyed the event. 

Resources

april.frost@ppcc.edu

Biography

Rory Gillespie has been a adjunct instructor at Lamar Community College since January 2012. Gillespie teaches Intro to Philosophy, Ethics, Comparative Religions, and Music Appreciation. He has been the Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lamar, CO since August 1999. Gillespie received his MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary in November 2008. Gillespie has been married to his wife, Karen, for 39 years and has two adult children, Nathaniel and Hilah.

Impact

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Articles

Rory Gillespie honored as one of LCC's Employees of the Year for 2016

Resources

Contact: Rory.Gillespie@lamarcc.edu

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Biography

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Impact

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matthew.grable@pueblocc.edu

Impact

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Resources

Contact: Tene.Greenhood@pueblocc.edu

Biography

Renee Gust is an instructor in early childhood education at Pueblo Community College. She is the Program Coordinator for the Early Childhood, Education and Library Technician programs. Renee earned both her bachelor and master degrees from Northern Illinois University. She is from Illinois where she owned her own childcare center for 15 years and taught at Elgin Community College. Ethics is core to education and the Daniels Fund Ethics Principles will reinforce what Renee has always taught her students and employees.

Relocating to Colorado in 2017 has been a blessing to her family: husband, Tim a real estate appraiser and two college-aged children Zach and Delaney.

Impact

Pueblo Community College Wins Two-Year Undergraduate Track at UCCS Ethics Case Competition

Resources

renee.gust@pueblocc.edu

Biography

Professor Hatcher has instructed courses in geography and anthropology at Trinidad State since January 2015. He holds an MA and a BS from Southern Illinois University, an AS and an AA from Lewis & Clark College, as well as a Graduate Endorsement from Adams State University. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, he taught geography at an all-girls boarding school in Tanzania from 1994 to 1996. He went on to guide wilderness courses for National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) from 1997 to 2007 and Colorado Mountain College in 2006 and 2007. Throughout this time, he was also a visiting adjunct instructor at Blackburn University, Alaska Pacific University, and Matanuska-Susitna College. As a pilot, he flew bush planes in Alaska and Kenya, and as a professional mountaineer, he launched expeditions in Europe, North America, and East Africa. He is also the author of two books: "The Marble Room" and "Principles of Flight". In 2019, "Principles" was nominated a finalist in the category Social/Political Change in the National Indie Excellence Awards. His textbook supplement on gender, power, and religion is forthcoming. He and his wife Kim live in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.

Impact

Student Community Outreach Project

Recorded Interviews (please note: the site is currently being worked on, but will be functional afterwards)

Resources

william.hatcher@trinidadstate.edu

Biography

Business Faculty

Business Department

Lamar Community College

Impact

Campus Teaching Ethics Workshop: Why Do Good People Engage in Unethical Acts?

Lamar Community College staff, faculty, and students were invited to an on-campus ethics training workshop, hosted by Pat Christensen and Mittie Helm on March 11, 2020. Mittie organized the event and the topic. The topic discussed was “Why Do Good People Engage in Unethical Acts?”. The workshop was an activity designed to improve student understanding about business ethics. Twelve staff and faculty members from LCC attended and one student. The feedback was positive from the workshop and attendees learned new information while being engaged through group discussion. During the workshop, the attendees discussed the following questions within their groups:

1. Studies show that people primed to think about business profits will make different choices than people facing the same decision who have been primed to think about activity ethically. Can you explain how that might affect you in your work life?
2. Can you think of a situation where you made a decision that you regret and probably would have chosen differently had you looked at the choice in a different way?
3. How do politicians and advertisers use framing to channel people’s decisions?
4. How might framing adversely affect your ethical decisions making in your projected workplace?
5. How can you work to ensure that ethical considerations stay in your frame of reference when you make decisions in your career and your life?
6. How can firms help their employees to keep ethical considerations in mind when they make decisions?

Resources

Mittie.helm@lamarcc.edu

Biography

A native of Orange, Texas, James Graduated with a Master of Leadership Degree from the University of Dallas in 2020. Her list of coaching stops includes the University of Dallas, McNeese State University, University of Arkansas at Monticello, and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Her main goal as a collegiate coach is to give her student-athletes knowledge and skills to be successful in all aspects of life and encourage them to be thoughtful life-long learners. Her focus is on the overall well-being of every student and increasing mental health awareness and resources across college campuses.

James began her playing career as a two-year starting third baseman for Angelina College in 2014 and 2015. At Angelina, James broke six school records, was a two-time NFCA All-American, earned a Marucci Elite Hitter Award, and led her team to a 2014 NJCAA National Championship. In 2016, she was inducted into the Angelina College Hall of Fame.

Following her time at Angelina College, James spent two years at Houston Baptist University where she was the starting third baseman for the Huskies. While at HBU, James earned Southland Conference honorable mention honors in 2017 and 2018 where she was second on the team with 36 hits in 2018 and led the Huskies with a .310 batting average in 2018.  She was an honor graduate and earned a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a Concentration in Math and Science.

Impact

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Resources

Kassie.James@otero.edu

Biography

Trinidad State Junior College

Impact

Two students and I participated and attended the Ethics Case Competition. This was TSJC’s first team to participate in the case competition.

Four students, two faculty, one staff, and I attended the Ethics Summit at Western University.

In the fall semester, I did an ice breaker activity using the Daniels Fund Principles in my courses. This activity involved about 30 students in two different courses.

Biography

Koehl, is a native of Columbus, Tx, Graduated with a Master's Degree in Kinesiology from Texas A&M Corpus Christi in 2022. Koehl began her coaching career as an intern with the Scrapyard Dawgs organization, a former professional women’s sports organization located in Houston, TX in 2019. In Summer of 2021, she took over as a Head Coach for the South Texas Prospects Travel Team Organization, and that fall would volunteer for her Alma Mater TAMUCC. Prior to accepting the job at Otero, Koehl was an assistant coach at the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, TX. Her main goal is to develop student-athletes on the field and off the field as young women for future life endeavors. Her focus is to maintain a positive and encouraging environment for the overall well-being of every student and increase mental health awareness across colleges. 

Koehl began playing career at Temple College in Temple, TX from 2015-2018. While at Temple, Koehl hit .329 as a redshirt freshman, .387 as a sophomore, was a 2018 First Team All-Conference player and a vital member of the 2018 NJCAA National Championship Team. 

After her time at Temple, Koehl then transferred to NCAA Division I Texas A&M Corpus-Christi where she attended and played from 2018-2021. This is where she would finish her softball career and would assist in leading the program to the best season record in 7 years. In addition to playing, in 2019 Koehl graduated from TAMUCC Cum Laude with a BS in Kinesiology - Exercise Science.

Impact

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Resources

Skye.Koehl@otero.edu

Biography

Jessica Laramie, J.D., came to Western as Energy Management professor following a decade of work in the oil and gas industry.

Laramie grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended Illinois State University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science. She then completed her master’s degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Law at the University of Denver. She remained in Denver for another ten years, working in the oil and gas industry. During that time, she also taught part time in the University of Denver’s law program, lecturing about contemporary issues in oil and gas and oil and gas agreements. 

Laramie has also organized a partnership with Texas Tech University on the World Energy Project (WEP). The WEP provides basic solar power systems to off-grid communities in developing countries where access to electricity is unavailable through traditional sources.

Impact

Academic Year 2020-2021

Taught Ethics in the following courses:

• BUAD 302 5 students
• BUAD 305 5 students

Attended ethics-based professional development courses for CO Bar Continuing Legal Education (CLE);

Chaired the Landman Section of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation National Institute to develop an .5-1 hour of ethics credit as part of CLE starting in July 2021.

Academic Year 2018-2019

Western’s School of Business hosted the first SCHEC Ethics Summit in Spring 2019. The school’s leadership and the University supported this event. Drs. Dykes and Laramie actively worked on Summit Spring, Summer and Fall of 2018 and the Spring of 2019.

Resources

Contact: jrichards@western.edu

Biography

Natasha Noel Liebig is currently a visiting assistant professor at Adams State University.  Prior to that she was a visiting professor at the University of Central Florida.  She earned her doctorate in philosophy from the University of South Florida specializing in Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Feminism, in which she also taught at various schools in the region.  Prior to graduate school, Natasha worked with therapeutic foster care for severely emotionally disturbed children.  In addition to her primary work on the philosophy of trauma, language, and embodiment, Natasha is dedicated to ethics and ethical teaching.  Her main interests include environmental ethics, outdoor recreational ethics, conservation, and animal welfare. 

Besides dedicating herself to teaching, research and writing, Natasha is an avid outdoorswoman.  She considers Alaska home, although she has grown up in other states in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado.  While in the great outdoors, she enjoys hiking, backpacking, kayaking, snowboarding, rock climbing, and running.  Her favorite places to travel in the states are the Southwest desert and Alaska.  Natasha also enjoys budget traveling and hosting travelers from around the world. 

Natasha has taught numerous courses in ethics from introduction, theory, and applied ethics.  She also makes a point to include a survey of ethics in her introduction to philosophy course and other courses. 

Impact

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Resources

nliebig@adams.edu

Biography

Bruce Lundberg has taught mathematics at CSU-Pueblo since 1993. Since 1993 he has also applied and developed his specialties of computational optimization and modeling in aerospace and railroad industry employment. Bruce served terms as department chair at CSU-Pueblo and at Grand Canyon University. In addition to a BS, MA and PhD in mathematics, he earned an MA in Cross-Cultural Studies which included graduate courses in ethics. Bruce has taught or lectured in Poland, Germany, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore and Spain, and sung for audiences in the latter four countries, individually, or with the CSU-Pueblo Choir. All these contexts and activities have helped him notice and foster ethical growth in himself and others through "just-in-time" methods, though case study discussions, through the history and multiple cultures of mathematics, and through extensive mentoring of students in research projects. He has published and presented on connections between ethics, mathematics, history and technology.​ During 2012-13 he served as the CSU-Pueblo General Education Board delegate to attend an "ethics across the curriculum" conference and present reports and workshops for a campus-wide emphasis on ethics.

Impact

• Fall 2020 Term Report
• Mentored four computer information systems students through a project of first becoming familiar with an organization ran by two individuals who work to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in several African countries. They became familiar with the organization through many zoom meetings. They studied the need, use and limitations of an app for this organization. After working on the app and proposing it, the app was successfully deployed in May 2021. They then discussed the ethical educational mission in their final presentation to their instructor and peers from other class groups. 
• Mentored more than four current and former STEM students remotely in ethical principles and practices. 
• Developed and organized materials and links on mentoring ethics in STEM and other areas. This is a tool for remote, in-person, individuals or classrooms to use. It was created in a joint slide deck along side DFEI Champion Rachel Zimmerman. It is a tool to use for teaching with ethics.

Resources

bruce.lundberg@csupueblo.edu

Biography

Paula has over 20 years of experience in Accounting, Tax, and Business Consulting. She began her career in public accounting at Deloitte before working at various diverse financial services firms, including New York Life, Marsh & McLennan, hedge fund DE Shaw, and Simon Equity Partners. Paula moved to Colorado in 2016, where she started a tax and consulting practice and serves as a Lecturer in Accounting at Western Colorado University.

Her Board service includes an appointment to the Colorado State Board of Accountancy, where she serves as Chair of the Board of Directors, and Treasurer of the Gunnison Valley Animal Welfare League. In addition, she holds her Certified Public Accountant certificate and is licensed to practice in the State of Colorado. She is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants. Paula is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Denver. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting and finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Master of Taxation from the University of Denver – Sturm College of Law.

Impact

Co-initiator and co-organizer of second Ethics BootCamp at Western for School of Business with UG and Graduate student participation (n=13)

Co-mentor for Western team in the 2022 Ethics Case Competition at UCCS (2nd Place finish)

Created ethics modules and included in Fall and Spring accounting classes

Paper on ethics and morality to be presented at the 2023 Society for Business Ethics conference.

Paula was a part of the team that advised the 2021 Graduate track first place winners at the 2021 UCCS case competition.

• 2021 UCCS Case Competition Communique Article

Resources

pmann@western.edu

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Biography

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Impact

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Resources

karen.marley@csupueblo.edu 

Biography

Director of Auxiliary Services & Foundation at Otero College.

Impact

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Resources

dillon.martin@ojc.edu

Biography

Faculty of Mathematics at Trinidad State College.

Impact

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Resources

desi.maxwell@trinidadstate.edu

Biography

Faculty, Philosophy at Pikes Peak Community College

Resources

Bruce.McCluggage@ppcc.edu

Biography

Munick did his graduate work at Miami University of Ohio and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former demographer at the Bureau of the Census and Penn State University Data Center where he provided research for public policy makers. Mr. Munick has taught at colleges and universities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware and initiated student clubs to promote civic responsibility and entrepreneurship. 

As an ethnographer and consultant to the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Coalition of Essential Schools, he worked to foster change in public schools by working with teachers and parents to teach the principles of free enterprise to students of all ages. 

He participated in a pioneering program in 1993, Turning Gang Members into Entrepreneurs for Rebuild LA, a global initiative to increase opportunities for urban youth in south central Los Angeles. Munick founded the Economics Discussion Series, which has attracted hundreds of local leaders to teach, mentor, and inspire next generation student innovators. 

As President of the Collegiate Peaks Forum Series in Buena Vista, Colorado, a lecture series dedicated to intellectual inquiry, Mr. Munick forged first-ever relationships with local school districts and libraries to introduce children to philosophy. Munick also taught college classes in economics and sociology at the CO State Correctional Facility in Buena Vista. 

Munick is a Certified Ice House Entrepreneurship Program Facilitator and advisor to the Pikes Peak Community College Entrepreneurs Club.

Faculty Roundtables

Ethics - "Economic Discussions: Bridging Academics with Real World Issues"

UCCS College of Business' Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative held an Ethics Roundtable Workshop, featuring expert panelists: - Warren Munick, Economics and Entrepreneurship Faculty and Chair of Economics Department, Pikes Peak Community College. Presentation: "Economic Discussions: Bridging Academics with Real World Issues" - Joe Easton, Department Chair Accounting and Business, Pueblo Community College.

Impact

2018-2019

More than 50 community leaders participated in the 2018-2019 Economics Discussion Series.

Email invitations are sent to all faculty, staff, and students and PPCC marketing advertises the event. There are about 5000 email recipients.

Many faculty, staff, and administration from the college-at-large have attended the Economics Discussion Series. This is a great opportunity to discuss the importance of ethics with our guests.

There were 20 faculty or staff and 20 students (other than my own) who attended the Economics Discussion Series.

Resources

Contact: Warren.Munick@ppcc.edu

Biography

Travis Parkhurst is a graduate of Pikes Peak Community College, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and Yale Divinity School. After graduating with a Masters in Philosophy of Religion, he returned to the Colorado Community College system to teach philosophy and humanities. He currently teaches for Pueblo Community College. Travis is working on several ethics-based projects and events, including participating in a statewide gamification grant project to increase student success in ethics courses.

Travis currently lives in Pueblo with his incredibly supportive wife Johanna, where he enjoys fishing, gardening, visiting the surrounding mountains, and travelling. He is currently planning a study abroad opportunity in Greece for Pueblo Community College student for May 2019, where he hopes to share his love of travel and learning with his students.

Ethics Education Project (2018-2019)

1. Revise the Pueblo Community College institutional level student learning outcome rubric for professionalism using the Daniels Fund ethics principles as a foundation. This project is scheduled to be completed by December 2018.
2. Schedule a lecture event at Pueblo Community College with Vitaly Stepanov and Yuliya Stepanova. The plan is to schedule this event for either November 2018 or February 2019.
3. Send two teams from Pueblo Community College to the ethics case competition at UCCS on November 2nd.
4. Send the minimum number of students, business owners, and faculty to the ethics summit in Gunnison.
5. Work with PCC Human Resources to find and schedule a key note speaker for the PCC Summer Institute in June 2019. Currently, I am working on contacting Thomas J. Walter, CFO of Tasty Catering.
6. Integrate the Daniels Fund ethics principles into PHI 112 (Ethics) curriculum for the virtue ethics unit.
7. Integrate the Daniels Fund ethics principles into Pueblo Community College’s first year experience course (AAA 109).
8. Potential Project- Help students organize a panel event on LGBTQ experiences in the workplace. Currently, student interest in putting on such an event is high. If it happens, it will occur in April 2019.

Impact

1. Sent two teams of two students to UCCS for the Daniels Fund Case Competition. Aside from the four students present at the case competition, six philosophy club students, four faculty, and two administrators assisted the four students in preparation for the competition.
2. On February 19th, PCC hosted an event titled “All That Glitters is Not Gold: Exposing the Russian Doping Scandal” with speakers Vitaly Stepanov and Yulia Stepanova. 109 people attended the event, 92 of whom were students. 12 faculty and staff members also attended along with 5 members of the community.
3. On April 4-5, 2019, PCC sent a delegation of four students, three business leaders, three faculty, and one administrator to Gunnison Colorado for the Daniels Fund Ethics Summit.
4. In the fall and spring of 2019, used Daniels Fund principles and Daniels Fund case studies in PHI 112 (Ethics) classes to deepen student understanding of virtue ethics. S Three classes were involved, with a total of 58 students.
5. In the fall of 2018, one section of our new first year experience course (AAA 109) used Daniels Fund principles to guide an academic dishonesty unit. 17 students were involved in this unit.
6. The Health Information Technologies program (HIT) used material from the Daniels Fund resources guide in each of their classes in the 2018-2019 academic year (HIT 102, 105, 111, 112, 150, 188, 220, 225, 252, 261, and 268). 130 students were exposed to the material throughout these courses in both the fall and spring semesters.

Resources

Contact: travis.parkhurst@pueblocc.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor of Management at CSU-Pueblo 

Biography

Ethics is an extremely important part of business education.  Over the course of my career as an educator, I have placed an increasingly higher emphasis on instilling ethical principles in my students by presenting them with opportunities to make ethical decisions.  I have adopted and developed a number of tools for this rooted in experiential methodology.  As a SCHEC Ethics Champion, I would not only like to share what I have learned, but I would also like to learn more from some of the best practitioners in the region.

Biography

Genia (Gina) Rasmussen is a professor of Business and Accounting at Trinidad State Jr. College, Valley Campus.  She earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees at Adam State University.  In this small rural community college, with a student to teacher ratio of 1 to 12, her influence is widespread as every business student is sure to have the privilege of working with her one on one. She relates well to every age, but is especially good at making the non-traditional student feel welcomed. Her relaxed accepting demeanor helps students to relax. No question is without warrant as far as she is concerned and her compassionate manner encourages participation. She is approachable, sincere, and discreet. Courses she currently teaches include Principles of Accounting I & II, Tax Help Colorado-Preparing Taxes and Tax Prep Practicum, Intro to Business, Business Communication & Report Writing, and Ethics & Values. 

She continues a lengthy membership in National Business Educators Association (NBEA), Tax Help Colorado Coordinator since 2010, and served many years as Trinidad State Valley Campus Student Life Coordinator.   She is held in high esteem for her kind empathy, her availability to help, and her impeccable work ethic and integrity. 

Genia and her husband look forward to hosting an exchange student from Denmark for the coming school year. He will be a sophomore in high school and speaks Danish, English, and German.  He has been learning Karate for four years and plans to participate in tournaments while in the United States. This experience that will provide an opportunity to learn more about another culture and languages. 

Her hobbies include Zumba, sewing and quilting; but as wife, mother, and grandmother, she most readily relishes time and activities with her family.

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Contact: Genia.Rasmussen@trinidadstate.edu

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Contact: LiAnn.Richardson@trinidadstate.edu

Impact

To be provided

Resources

email: pastor@lajuntapres.org

Biography

Melissa Romero is the current Distance Academic Advisor for Adams State University (ASU) and recent graduate with a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration and Leadership.

Her work experience includes geriatric care, advocacy, administration and psychology. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from ASU, and focused on her work in geriatric development. In her undergraduate studies, she became a part of Psi Chi, which is the International Honor Society in Psychology; the National Society of Leadership and Success; and engaged in Student Support Services, where she gained leadership skills through various self-lead projects and lead peers in numerous projects, including community outreach initiatives.

She then pursued a career in Adult Protection Services with Alamosa County. Melissa was a licensed Adult Protection Service Caseworker for the county. During her time with Alamosa County, she advocated for the rights of at-risk elderly and investigated any risks of abuse or mistreatment.

Melissa then came to ASU in 2018 to serve as the Distance Academic Advisor. In this role, she assists the online undergraduate population with academic goals, career goals and navigating an online college environment. She helps students finish their degrees and feel confident in the education they are receiving. Melissa also assists first-year Business freshmen and all Interdisciplinary Studies majors on-campus. She received her Master of Art in Higher Education Administration and Leadership from ASU in 2022. Finally, Melissa is also a certified Appreciative Advisor through Florida Atlantic University and is a member of NACADA, which is the National Academic Advising Association.

Impact

To be provided.

Resources

mkromero@adams.edu

Biography

Robert Samaniego is an instructor in Otero Junior College's Business Technologies Department.  Now in his 17th year as an instructor at OJC, he teaches Economics, Computer Information Systems, and Business courses. He also taught courses at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell before moving to OJC. Before finding his way into education, Samaniego worked in a variety of fields as a printer's assistant, an event manager/promoter, park ranger and as a hospital billing auditor. After he began a graduate degree in education, he quickly realized that he had no interest in becoming an administrator in the K-12 environment and quit the program after completing only a few courses. He later earned a Master of Business Administration degree at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Impact

To be provided

Resources

Contact: robert.samaniego@ojc.edu

Biography

Sustainability Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, Pikes Peak Community College

konrad.schlarbaum@ppcc.edu

Biography

Valerie is the Director of Professional Development for Pueblo Community College, a position she has held for the past six years. She earned her Bachelors of Science and Business Administration from the University of Southern Colorado and her Master’s in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix.  Valerie is passionate about ethics because of the impact that ethics has on a person’s life, the outcomes of organizations, and ultimately society. As a result, she enjoys researching this topic and sharing her expertise with others. She continues to be a life-long learner, applies her learnings, and shares her knowledge with others.

Resources

Pueblo Community College Wins Two-Year Undergraduate Track at UCCS Ethics Case Competition 

valerie.switzer@pueblocc.edu

Biography

Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership in health and wellness and sports management, MSc Health Promotion, and BS in exercise science. She also works part-time at Children’s Hospital as a health coach for "Healthy Kids Program". She had over 15 years in working in non-profit organizations, 6 years in higher education, and 18 years in helping others through health and wellness. She loves teaching and helping others through her own experience and education. She is taught to variety of students including La Vista Correctional Facility, Pueblo Youth Service Center and the YMCA of Las Vegas (Health and Wellness Director). Her areas of expertise include; behavior change, stress management, health coaching and teaching resiliency in our youth and adults.

Impact

To be provided.

Resources

tina.twilleger@csupueblo.edu

Biography

Dr. Kevin Walker is a Biology instructor teaching anatomy and physiology to nurses and Associate of Sciences students many of who will become professional care givers. He provides a foundation for their careers. Additionally, he teaches Environmental Sciences courses that help students understand how they are a part of the environment. He enforces that as a part of the community, students have a responsibility to engage in all of the Daniels Fund Ethics Principles as they learn about the roles of human interactions and sustainability at multiple levels. He teaches that students are a contributing factor to solving local and global issues.

Resources

Kevin.Walker@trinidadstate.edu

Biography

Teresa Ward has been with Pikes Peak Community College since 2012, first as an instructor and since 2018, as the Director of the PPCC’s Bachelor of Applied Science, Emergency Service Administration (BAS/ESA) degree. Her academic credentials include a BA in Organizational Management/Human Resource Management, an MS in Homeland Security, and an MBA. Teresa retired from the US Air Force after twenty years of service. Her combined military, emergency management, and academic backgrounds positioned her to build a program development team of subject matter experts that contributed to creating PPCC’s first bachelor's degree. The program is delivered online and provides rigorous experiential learning to first responders in local and distant communities. Leadership and ethics are central to the program overall and run through each required course with intent to shape and equip emergency service administrators with the skills required to serve a community in times of peace or crisis.

Teresa from Alaska and has lived in Colorado Springs since 1995. She oldest daughter is a DU graduate and a manager in the property restoration field. Her oldest son serves proudly in the US Marine Corps. Her youngest daughter is on a service assignment with the American Conservation Experiment (ACE) in the depths of the Grand Canyon. And her youngest son is a Special Olympian.

Impact

1. BAS ESA Course Modifications: The PPCC BAS ESA program was launch in Aug 2018. Although course learning outcomes on ethics are throughout the program, adding DFEI principles will provide a consistent compass for arriving at optimal decision-making in emergency management. 
2. Modified ESA 300 – Leadership for Emergency Services Assignments and ESA 489 – Emergency Service Capstone Assignments    
   1. ESA 300 is the first course and a pre-requisite course for all students in the BAS ESA program. Although this course already has ethics content, adding the DFEI principles expands and enhances those assignments. 
   2. Students will face definitions, application, experiential learning in high impact scenarios at select modules to include the final. 
   3. ESA 489 is the final course in the program where students face ethical dilemmas and must use the DFEI principles to make and justify decisions. 
   4. Ethics is one of our program learning outcomes, which will be assessed during our first program review. Having the DFEI principles as a required tool in the program will strengthen our program review and assessments. 
   5. Our young program currently has approximately 50 students, full and part-time, impacted by these changes, and we grow more each year. 
3. Addition of an ethics link to the BAS ESA webpage that tells visitors that our program adheres to DFEI principles. Content for this link is under development and will undergo approval. Estimated exposure is yet to be known.

Resources

Teresa.ward@ppcc.edu

Biography

Cliff Wiening is a Biology instructor. He serves in the college community teaching both non-majors and majors Biology students offering a number of courses including Botany, Zoology, Introductory Biology and General Biology. Wiening is also the Phi Thetta Kappa sponsor. PTK is an honor society composed of students who strive to provide service opportunities for the campus and surrounding community. With Wienings leadership, the program number has grown significantly providing students with leadership opportunities, scholarly experiences, and service skills that they will take into their future. During Wiening’s tenure, PTK is expanding beyond the two campuses and will soon offer programs that include enrolled students at a local prison. TSJC PTK has received a number of awards for their dedicated service. PTK students have attended regional, state, and national conferences.

Resources

Clifford.Wiening@trinidadstate.edu

Biography

Rachel Zimmerman has been assistant professor of art history at Colorado State University-Pueblo since 2018. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Delaware and specializes in art, architecture, and material culture in colonial Ibero-America and the early modern Portuguese world. She has lived in Germany, New Mexico, and Brazil, and has a particular interest in cross-cultural exchange and in encouraging students to question their own perspectives and ethnocentric biases. In the fall of 2020, she will be teaching a new course titled “Museum Ethics and Issues” that will become the foundation for a forthcoming Museum Studies minor at CSU-Pueblo. 

Impact

• Art 491 Museum Ethics & Issues - New foundation course for Museum Studies minor.
  • Impacted 12 students. 
  • Ethical principles were incorporated throughout discussion and assignments
• Art 211 History of Art I - Existing Course
  • Impacted 36 students
  • Ethics Principles included in a new assignment - Ethical Question Blog Posts
• "Ethics in Cybersecurity” roundtable shared with Dr. Roberto Mejias, Director of the Center for Cyber Security Education and Research, CSU-Pueblo to distribute within the Hassan School of Business.
• ”Ethics in Art Collecting” panel shared with department of art faculty (4 faculty); offered extra credit for students in Art 100 Visual Dynamics (25 students) and Museum Ethics and Issues (12 students) to attend and write a brief response
• ”Trauma-Informed Ethical Decision Making in the Post Covid-19 World” roundtable shared with Jeff Piquette, Associate Dean of the College of Health, Education, & Nursing and Director of the School of Education. Recording of event incorporated into N748 and N548 Healthcare: Law, Policy, & Ethics courses
• ”Emerging Ethical Dilemmas Challenge Our Community: How Should We Respond?” panel shared with Lynnette Leachman, Assistant to the Dean of College of Health Education and Nursing
• NASBA Ethical Leadership Certification Program shared with David Volk, Director of Honors and Leadership to distribute with the Center for Honors and Leadership students and President’s Leadership Program students.
• Visited HONR 101 seminar to discuss the Southern Colorado Ethics Summit with students.
• Southern Colorado Ethics Summit CSU Pueblo Attendees: 2 Business Leaders 4 Educators 2 Ethics Champions
• Ethics Resources for Teaching Website:
• Developed and organized materials and links on mentoring ethics in many areas. This is a tool for remote, in-person, individuals or classrooms to use. It was created in a joint slide deck along side DFEI Champion Bruce Lundberg. It is a resource to use about teaching with ethics.

Resources

rachel.zimmerman@csupueblo.edu