11th Annual Conference
Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester New York
Thursday, November 12th — All sessions are in the Liberal Arts Building (Bldg. 6)
2-8 Registration in the Faculty Lounge, Liberal Arts (6-1251)
4-5:30 Invited Address (6-A205, in basement)
Dr. William Astore
Civility: First Refuge of the Patriot?
5:30-7 Dinner: a casual dinner at Crossroads, on campus, on your own
7-8 Concurrent Session 1
A Kim Skoog (6-3214)
Plotting a course of civility in the growing global economic crisis:
where lies our obligations in helping the poor vs. ourselves?
B Richard McGowan (6-3225)
Civic Responsibility and the Necessity of Hope
C Shane Ralston (6-3232)
Teaching Democratic Citizenship and Civility in the Classroom:
Five Lessons from Dewey’s Democracy and Education
8-9:30 Reception & cash bar, Student Alumni Union, 1829 room
A civil discussion of civility, hosted by Lisa Newton
Friday, November 13th — All sessions are in the Liberal Arts Building, Bldg. 6.
8-10 Registration, in the Faculty Lounge, Liberal Arts (6-1251)
9-12 Concurrent Session 2 — Engineering ethics and narratives (6-A201, in basement)
A Jun Fudano, Fumihiko Tochinai, & Kenichi Natsume
Engineering Ethics Education through Values-Sharing
B Christina Matta, Laura Grossenbacher, & Joseph Herkert
Macroethics in the Engineering Classroom
C Ron Roach, Tim Moore, Adam Neal, & Michael Elrod
Homo sapiens or Homo narrans? Teaching Ethics, Citizenship, and Civility
through Walter Fisher’s Narrative Program
9-12 Concurrent Session 3 — Ethics Across the Curriculum (6-3214)
A Joan Whitman Hoff & Marcia J. Kurzynski
Teaching Citizenship and Civility
B Kimberly Peer & Gretchen Schlabach
Uncovering the Moral Compass: An Integrated Ethics Education Approach
Transcending the Curriculum
C Joseph Herkert, Mary Jane C. Parmentier, & Jeffrey Thomas
Lincoln Ethics Teaching Fellows Program at the ASU Polytechnic Campus
9-12 Current Session 4 (6-3215)
A Alan Tomhave
Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship
B Laura Arcila-Villa
Cosmopolitanism and Civility
C Robert Halliday
Ivy Halls and I.V. Drips: Ethics and Civility in the Classroom
and in Public Philosophy
12-1 Lunch, on your own, in the Student Alumni Union Cafeteria
1-6 Concurrent Session 5 (6-A201, in basement)
A Paul Gaffney
Competition in the Classroom: An Ideal for Civility
B Paul Ecksein
Conflict and Consensus-Building in a Sometimes Uncivil Society
C Matthew Maruggi
Through Solidarity to Fluidarity: Service-Learning and Spiritual and
Social Conscience Development
D Nathaniel J. Brown & Anji E. Wall
Vocation and Service Learning: Fostering Citizenship through an
Informatics Curriculum
E Craig Titus
Designing Ethics Curriculum: Teaching and Assessing Moral Decision Making
in a Service-Learning Design Course
1-7 Concurrent Session 6 (6-A205, in basement)
A Cynthia Jones
Robot Ethics and Teaching Ethics
B Heather Matthusen
Pagans, Evangelicals, and Civil Discourse: Teaching Philosophy of Religion
in the South
C Katherine Meacham, Robert (Barry) Sharpe, Alan B. Smith, & John W. Wells
Civility and Citizenship at a Baptist College in the South
D Megan Laverty
Civility and the Banality of Good
E Hallie Liberto
Teaching Sexual Civility: On the Moral Demands of Sex Education
Ignored by Liberals and Conservatives Alike
F Stephen Satris
Citizenship
1-7 Concurrent Session 7 (6-3215)
A Elaine Englehardt & Michael Pritchard
Moral Psychology: Normative and Empirical
B Cliff Guthrie
Teaching the Moral Emotions
C Doug Chismar
Passionate Civility: Balancing Emotional Intensity and Rational Discourse
D Donna Schaeffer
“Unwired” for Compassion: The Ethics of Care, Civility and Citizenry in the
Global, Digital World
E Andrew Terjesen
Civility and Magnanimity
F Stephen Scales
Philosophy and Civility in the Age of Jerry Springer
7 Banquet, Student Alumni Union cafeteria
Presidential Address, Dan Wueste
Saturday, November 14th — All sessions are in the Glasano Building, Bldg. 70.
9-12 Concurrent Session 8 — Civility (70-3435)
A William Frey, Jose Curz, Aury M. Curbelo-Ruiz, & Halley D. Sanchez
EAC Toolkit
B John Ahrens
Encouraging Civic Discourse in a Most Unlikely Place
C Kristin P. Schaupp
“You think what?” Rational and Civil Disagreement in the Philosophy Classroom
9-12 Concurrent Session 9 — Performance, testing, and learning to listen (70-3445)
A David White
Performance Learning as Education for Citizenship
B Howard Curzer
Neo-Neo-Kolbergianism and the DIT-3
C Mark Clark
Ethical Listening and the Civility of the Doctor-Patient Interaction
9-12 Concurrent Session 10 — Outreach (70-3455)
A William D. Lawson, Katherine A. Austin, Bryon Newberry, Greta Gorsuch, & Thomas J. Darwin
Overcoming acculturation barriers to ethics education for international engineering graduate
students: an integrative approach
B Anastasia Pease
“I am here to make friends”: Teaching Civility to the Reality TV Generation of Digital Natives
C Katie J. Biggie & Mara B. Huber
Developing Civic Pathways: A University Model
12-1 Lunch, on your own, Crossroads suggested
1-6 Concurrent Session 11 — Civility (70-3435)
A Stanley Konecky
Civility Is Not Enough
B James (Jed) Donelan
Deliberative Dialogue, Ethics and Citizenship: From Theory through
the Classroom to Practice
C Timothy Shiell
Debunking Three Myths about Civility
D Jeanne Sokolec
Legislating Civility in the Classroom
E Kathryn Russell
Summer Ethics Institute at SUNY Cortland: Faculty Development
1-6 Concurrent Session 12 — Business Ethics and Communication (70-3445)
A Charlotte McDaniel
Ethics Debates: Ethics, Congruency, and Context
B Richard McGowan, Matt McGowan, Garry McGowan
Relativism and the Teaching of Business Ethics
C Charles F. Piazza
The Business Professional as Global Citizen: A Communitarian and
Character Ethics Perspective
D Kathleen Szczepanek
Business Ethics: How to Develop Ethical Awareness and Introspection
in our Students
E Alice L. Crume
Ethics Taught, Ethics Learned, and Ethics Practiced
1-6 Concurrent Session 13 — Reasoning, Writing, Socrates and others (70-3455)
A Jeff Buechner
Authentic Civic Participation Requires Critical Thinking Methods That Work
B Maureen Barry & Sybil R. Ishman
Sowing the Seeds of Academic Integrity in Writing Assignments
C Timothy J. Madigan
Socrates: Super Patriot, Cynic, Anarchist or Critical Citizen?
D Mel Brandon
Teaching Deliberative Democracy: Social Security, Global Warming,
and Health Care Reform
E Nick Braune
Erich Fromm’s Civics: Cultivating the Virtue of Disobedience
6 Business meeting, Student Alumni Union, 1829 Room, followed by a casual dinner and discussion
Thanks to generous funding by:
- The Ethics Center at Utah Valley University
- Dr. James Dale Ethics Center at Youngstown State University
- The Ezra A. Hale Chair in Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology