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...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...
...responded to these challenges, however, with a fervent defense of Harvard as the nation's foremost center of ethical learning. In addition to the University-wide ethics program instituted last fall, ethical considerations at Harvard were enhanced by the Business School's receiving a $30 million endowment--including a $20 million donation from outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman John S.R. Shad--to fund a comphrehensive ethics program...
...Rupp Committee, an advisory body, to study how the University could better use its resources for the teaching of ethics. Named for its chair, Rice University President George Rupp--then a Divinity School Dean, the committee recognized the flaws in the system and recommended that Bok form a University-wide program similar to the one he eventually established last year...
Because of the decentralized approach Harvard has adopted in the past, problems--which the University-wide ethics program aims to rectify--have arisen with insuring that students receive sufficient ethical training. Trying to integrate ethics into the curriculum as a whole, the plan favored by deans and faculty at the B-School, is a worthy goal, but may fail in the execution, say experts on ethics. ethics into the curriculum as a whole, the plan favored by deans and faculty at the B-School, is a worthy goal, but may fail in the execution, say experts on ethics...