The Baruch College Faculty Handbook

Last
updated on 3/9/05

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Ethics
Week at Baruch College

March
15-19, 2004

You
can view streaming video of most of the events

listed
below at ethics
videos.

Ethics
Week at Baruch has two main components: classroom
discussion of ethical issues related to specific
subjects/disciplines, and special events
featuring invited guests. Ethics Week is generously supported
by the Charles Dreifus Ethics-Across-the-Curriculum Initiative
and a grant from the Joseph Drown Foundation.

 

Classroom
Discussions

 

Preparatory
Materials

 

• • During
    the first two weeks of March, Prof. Douglas Lackey
    (Philosophy) led faculty development workshops entitled
    Ethics Discussions
    in the Classroom: How to Start Them, How to Keep Them Going,
    and How Not To Go Off the Rails.
    An
    outline
    and an ethics
    primer that Prof. Lackey prepared are available
    through the foregoing links.

• • Prof.
    W. Ray Williams (Law) has compiled a handbook entitled
    Ethics
    and Law: Basic Concepts, Cases, and Dilemmas
    for members of the Law Department (and others) to use as
    a resource for classroom discussions. (During Ethics Week,
    all courses in the Department of Law will feature discussion
    of frameworks for ethical decision making, investigation
    of different philosophical approaches to ethical decision
    making, and case studies and dilemmas.)

Schedule
of Special Events

Monday,
March 15

6-7:30
p.m.

 

Pulitzer
Prize winning reporter David Cay Johnston
of The New York Times will discuss his new, best-selling
book, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our
Tax System to Benefit the Super Richand Cheat Everybody
Else. The
articles for which Mr. Johnston won the Pulitzer Prize in
2001
may be accessed at http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2001/beat-reporting/works/
Location:
Newman
Conference Center (151 East 25 th St., 7th floor), Room
763.
See
the video of this event.

 

Tuesday,
March 16

8-9
a.m.

 

Harold
J. Tinkler, Chief
Ethics and Compliance Officer, Deloitte
and Touche, will address New Climate, New Demands: Today’s
Corporate Ethics. Location:
Vertical
Campus, 14-250. See
the video of this event.

 

4-5:15
p.m.

 

Election
Campaigns, Press Coverage, and the Public Trust will be
the subject of a panel discussion with Wayne Barrett,
political/investigative reporter for the Village Voice;
Jonathan
Hicks of The New York Times; and
Bryan Keefer of the Columbia Journalism
Review and founder of the political website
spinsanity.com (countering
rhetoric with reason).
Moderated
by Prof. Geanne Rosenberg
(Journalism). Location:
Newman
Conference Center (151 East 25 th St., 7th floor),
Room 763. See
the video of this event.

 

5:40-7:20
p.m.

 

Abraham
Briloff, Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Professor of
Accountancy Emeritus, will address a section of Accounting
3202 on ethical issues in the discipline. Location:
Vertical
Campus, 9-135

 

Wednesday,
March 17

 

Sarah
Bartlett, Baruch College’s Bloomberg Professor
of Business Journalism, will host a thirteen-part series
of TV interviews called USA Inc beginning on March 17. These
programs on CUNY TV
(Channel 75 in New York City) will focus on business
ethics from Wall Street to New Delhi and will feature
such high-profile guests as Jack Bogle, Carl McCall,
Paul Volker, Arthur Levitt, Ira Milstein and
Ray Troubh. The
series is presented by Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business,
in collaboration with CUNY TV. Professor Bartlett and Baruch’s
Business
Journalism Program are part of the Weissman School of
Arts and Sciences. Each interview will air Wednesdays at
8:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., and on Sundays
at 7:30 a.m. Broadcast information,
transcripts, and video of each interview may also be found
on www.cuny.tv.

 

Thursday,
March 18

12:45-2
p.m.

 

An
open forum with Larry Zicklin, chairman
of the board, Neuberger Berman, and trustee of The Baruch
College Fund. The forum will focus on the recently drafted
Student
Guide to Academic Integrity at Baruch College
but
also will include discussion of relationships between ethical
behavior in the academic and business worlds. Location:
Vertical
Campus, 14-250. See
the video of this event.

 

1-2:15
p.m.

 

Josephine
Johnston (Hastings Center) on the ethical issues
in the management of financial conflicts of interest in
biomedical research. Location:
17
Lexington Avenue, 5 South (fifth floor). See
the video of this event.

 

4:30-6
p.m.

 

Barbara
Ley Toffler, author of Final Accounting: Ambition,
Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen, will speak about
her experiences working at Arthur Andersen. Location:
Vertical
Campus, 14-250. See
the video of this event.

 

 

Ethics
Week was generously supported by the

 

Charles
Dreifus Ethics-Across-the-Curriculum Initiative

 

and
a grant from the Joseph Drown Foundation.

 

 

 

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Assessment
of Ethics Week 2004

Events featuring
outside speakers

Nine
speakers took part in seven events, which unfolded in a variety
of formats and venues. Overall, roughly 500 students attended
these events, nearly all of which were video-taped.

Classroom
discussions

After
Ethics Week, some 200 students completed an online survey
designed to assess the activities. Nearly two-thirds of the
respondents indicated that at least one of their instructors
had discussed ethical issues in class that week. Those numbers
suggest that as many as 10,000 students at Baruch experienced
discussions of issues that would likely not have been discussed
were it not for Ethics Week. Optional comments on the survey
were also very positive. A recurrent comment on the need for
more advance publicity will be addressed in spring 2005.