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Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education
edited by C. R. Crespo and Rita Kirk
Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education
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paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-9048-8
hardcover isbn: 978-1-5326-9049-5
ebook isbn: 978-1-5326-9050-1
Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Names: Crespo, C. R., editor. | Kirk, Rita, editor.
Title: Ethics at the heart of higher education / edited by C. R. Crespo and Rita Kirk.
Description: Eugene, OR : Pickwick Publications, 2020 | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: isbn 978-1-5326-9048-8 (paperback) | isbn 978-1-5326-9049-5 (hardcover) | isbn 978-1-5326-9050-1 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Education (Christian theology). | Education—Religious aspects. | Education, Higher—Aims and objectives—United States. | Ethics—Study and teaching (Higher)—United States. | Education, Higher—Moral and ethical aspects—United States.
Classification: lb2324 .e84 2020 (print) | lb2324 .e84 (ebook)
Manufactured in the U.S.A. 08/24/20
This book is dedicated to Cary M. Maguire for his constant dedication and support of ethics education across the United States. We at SMU owe a special debt to him for his support, encouragement, and resolve. Not only did he establish the Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility at SMU but he also endowed chairs at numerous universities as well as the Library of Congress. Mr. Maguire is a visionary. He asks tough questions. Yet he also demonstrates through his own life actions that questioning ethical decisions takes a dedication to enacting values. Countless students have benefitted from his endowment of our summer Public Service Fellowships that support students financially so that they can spend the summers researching ethics-related issues or pursuing volunteer opportunities with nonprofit organizations. Professors have been supported through course development grants, yearly Public Scholar lecture, and teaching fellowships. The community has been engaged as a result of public forums on issues of the day, the Ethics & Compliance program, the yearly Conference of the Professions and our annual J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award for community service. Ethics is about more than words on a page but a living habit of mind and action. Thank you for investing your energy in us.
Contributors
Mary “Molly” Camp (MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in geriatric mental health and cognitive and memory disorders. Dr. Camp is the director of the Neurocognitive and Geriatric Psychiatry Program in the UTSW Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic and the associate program director of the combined Psychiatry and Neurology Residency Program. She completed residency training in psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and UT Southwestern.
Alexander Cole (MD, University of Chicago) is the chief resident in the department of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center. After graduating from residency in 2019, he will be joining the faculty at UT Southwestern as an inpatient psychiatrist for University Hospitals. He graduated magna cum laude from Baylor University, earning a bachelor of science with a major in biochemistry and minor in great texts of the Western tradition. He attended medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. At UT Southwestern, he is a member of the educator track and was awarded the department’s Outstanding Resident Contribution to Medical Student Education award in 2017.
C. R. Crespo (MEd, Southern Methodist University) is the associate director of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and an adjunct professor in the department of corporate communications and public affairs at Southern Methodist University. Her editing experience includes Annals of Dyslexia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of The International Dyslexia Association as well as other university publications. She completed the Management Development Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Institute for Higher Education. She oversees the operation of SMU’s Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and focuses her work on higher education policy and administration. Her previous experience includes extensive work in communications at domestic and international nongovernmental organizations, and public affairs and policy research for Fortune 500 companies and national professional associations.
Charles E. Curran (STD, Academia Alfonsiana and Pontifical Gregorian University) is the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values at Southern Methodist University. He has served as president of three national professional societies—the American Theological Society, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Society of Christian Ethics. He was the first recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theology given by the Catholic Theological Society of America. In 2003, the College Theology Society gave him its Presidential Award for a lifetime of scholarly achievements in moral theology. The Society of Christian Ethics gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. In 2010, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Curran has authored or edited more than fifty books in the area of moral theology and taught for more than twenty years at the Catholic University of America and has also taught at Cornell University, the University of Southern California, and Auburn University.
Robert J. Howell (PhD, Brown University) is a Dedman Family Distinguished Professor and is the chair of the department of philosophy at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity (Oxford University Press, 2013) as well as numerous articles on the problem of consciousness, self-knowledge, and the nature of moral character. With Torin Alter he coauthored A Dialogue on Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2009), The God Dialogues (Oxford University Press, 2011), and coedited Consciousness and the Mind Body Problem: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2011). Dr. Howell’s current research focuses on consciousness, self-knowledge, and the ethics of emerging technologies.
Rita Kirk (PhD, University of Missouri) is the William F. May Endowed Director of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility as well as an Altshuler Distinguished Professor in Corporate Communication & Public Affairs at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on the development and ethical targeting of public arguments, campaign communication, and a phenomenon that cannot be ignored in current discourse: hate speech. Dr. Kirk’s books include Political Empiricism: Communications Strategies in State and Regional Elections, which won the “Best Book in Applied Communication” from the National Communication Association; Hate Speech, a book analyzing implications for hate discourse in public communication, with coeditor David Slayden, which was awarded the Outstanding Book on the subject of Human Rights in North America and the James Madison Prize for work on free speech; Solo Acts: The Death of Discourse in a Wired World;
