Word: thompson
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President Bok tried to woo the young professor of ethics away from Princeton seven years ago, but he couldn't convince Dennis F. Thompson to accept the Kennedy School post he offered...
...January of 1985, Bok decided to try the elusive ethicist one more time, spurred by the recommendations of an advisory committee which advocated instituting a University-wide ethics program to train young ethics teachers at Harvard's professional schools. And this time Thompson, who was on leave in California, accepted Bok's invitation and a lifetime post as Whitehead professor of political philosophy at the School of Government...
While Bok has made the teaching of ethics a priority since his installment in Massachusetts Hall 16 years ago, the University-wide ethics program which Thompson now heads and the establishment of an undergraduate Moral Reasoning Core requirement are Harvard's only comprehensive programs to integrate ethics into the curriculum...
Which is where Thompson steps in. As director of the program which arose from the Rupp Committee's referendum, he coordinates the activities of an inter-faculty committee and a group of senior fellows from the various faculties who are responsible for orchestrating the program. Next fall, a group of four outside scholars will be the first ethics fellows sponsored by the program...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Emily Friedrich, Demetra Kosters, Susan Lynd News Desks: Brian Doyle, Frances Fiorino, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Susanna Mary Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley, Arturo Yaez...