Kenan gift will help expand ethics program at Duke
A $10 million gift from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust in Chapel Hill, N.C., will create an endowment for the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and expand the Kenan Ethics Program, an initiative started five years ago to incorporate ethics teaching in all Duke classes.
Elizabeth Kiss, the Kenan Ethics Program's director, says the investment will allow Duke to expand existing projects and develop new projects, including:
Ethics Across the Curriculum: a group of programs that support a new two-course ethical inquiry requirement for all undergraduates;
an effort to promote academic integrity among students from middle school through university level;
an initiative to help businesses explore everyday ethical challenges, to develop and implement codes of ethics, and to find creative ways to honor broader civic responsibility;
Kenan Forums on Emerging Moral Challenges: Forums that will present scholars, public officials, advocates and citizens to discuss new moral challenges facing today's society;
Ethical Issues Within and Across the Professions: An effort seeking to establish cross-professional dialogues about ethics at universities, organizations and communities;
Moral Deliberation in the Face of Disagreement: Projects that will explore dialogue about contentious issues;
The William C. Friday Award in Moral Leadership: an annual award in ethics.
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