Funding Opportunities

The Center for Ethics in Public Life seeks to make the consideration of ethics in public life central to the University’s educational and research agendas.

The goals of the Center’s funding initiatives in nurturing a community of ethical inquiry are fourfold:

  1. To seed new and innovative activities, expanding the total number of opportunities for faculty, students, staff, and the public to engage in consideration of ethical issues including academic integrity.
  2. To bring more members of the University community into the discussions of ethical issues in public life.
  3. To heighten understanding and improve deliberation, discourse and debate about ethical issues; to nurture moral discernment and discourse among the members of our community.
  4. To strengthen and expand connections among individuals engaged in moral deliberation, and to create networks of opportunities for engagement in moral deliberation, so that we begin to build a comprehensive, multifaceted, conversation. Ultimately, we hope that this ongoing conversation will help us understand better how, practically and theoretically, we can effectively address moral concerns in a pluralistic society.

We construe public ethics very broadly, to include individual behavior, personal and professional; institutional behaviors, policies, and practices, whether at the University or in business, government, religion, the military, and so on; social structures and institutions, including issues of social justice, equity, and other topics typically covered by social theory in various forms; and issues of national and international scope, such as world health, human rights, etc.

Funding from the Center is available through four programs:

Information about the programs is available through the links in the bar on the left side of this page.