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Should Ann Arbor Have an Elected Official Ethics Policy?
Submitted by jadelay on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:41.Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, pledged to drain the swamp of dirty politics in Congress when she took office a few years ago. She said that she wanted to preside over the most ethical Congress in history.
Since she took office, the Office of Congressional Ethics has been very serious about fulfilling her mission and their responsibilities.
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Human Rights Expert Bede Sheppard to Talk about "Protecting Education From Attack"
Submitted by jadelay on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 17:04.Lecture and Discussion Hosted by A2Ethics.org Will Spotlight Increasing Attacks on Students, Faculty and Schools Worldwide
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The Public Life of the University of Michigan's Center for Ethics (in Public Life)
Submitted by jadelay on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 17:23.Higher education institutions, and the eclectic ethics centers attached to them, are central to the nurturing and growth of a flourishing ethics economy. A2Ethics.org has identified this economy as one where people take career pathways that involve working with ethics ideas, and whose professions and livelihoods are ethics-related. We have been documenting this economy whenever we get a chance to talk with people helping to build this ethics economy.
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Good Fishing: One Flyfisherman's Story
Submitted by jadelay on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 11:45.For the A2Ethics.org working ethics series, we have been touring the community, talking with people about the ethics of their work. So, this got us thinking: what do people do when they are NOT working? And is their free time really ethics-free?
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A Traditional Nonprofit Adds New Traditions: The Kiwanis Club at the Flim Flam
Submitted by jadelay on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 21:37.Social entrepreneurs. Microfinanciers. Practical Idealists. These are just of the few of the titles given to the new nonprofiteers and venture social capitalists starting up and charging up the world to make it a better place over the last two decades or so.
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Working Ethics Podcast Series
When Do I Get To Play? The Athletic Trainer Should Know
Submitted by jadelay on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 17:07.Concussions. Dehydration. Fraternization with players. Pressures from coaches, parents and athletes to give the nod to go back into the game after getting injured. Athletic trainers have a lot of ethical issues to worry about. How are they able to balance and deal with the many dilemmas they face? And what are athletic trainers for anyway? What are their roles and obligations on the field and off?
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Behind the Mystery Shopper: Market Research and its Ethics
Submitted by jadelay on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 10:00.Many of us look forward to March. It is the month when we can try out our new 'quant' approaches or 'Blink!' systems to choose who will win the NCAA college hoops tournament. To be sure, March Madness bracket choices are now a science. Sad to say, my own approach remains stubbornly unscientific and partial to Michigan schools. So, unless Michigan State can get to the Final Four, I will have once again shown that state loyalty is foolish and farfetched, not to mention an obsolete way, given the status of loyalty today, to win an office betting pool. It is some kind of madness.
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