February 01, 2001
Touching up our public face: Center to start email newsletter, premiers ethics flame
The Center for Ethics made significant progress last semester toward its goal of gearing up for ethics leadership in the new millennium with two sets of focus groups, a revised mission statement, and a new graphic: the ethics flame.
Robert Leaver of Rhode Island-based Organizational Futures led the October 4 and 27 focus groups, comprised of Emory faculty, students, and staff. Participants encouraged the Center’s work in fostering ethics dialogue in a pluralistic research university. Suggestions included constructing a new facility for the Center, developing a program for faculty to work more closely with the Center, increasing ethics research, developing an ethics minor for undergraduate students, and furthering the Center’s work in health science ethics. Leaver will return to Emory this semester to work with the university’s Board of Trustees.
In November staff re-imagined the Center’s public face, considering revisions to the mission statement and methods of publicity and beginning work on a new informational brochure. In addition to the revised mission statement on the front cover, the Center has shortened its name to the “Center for Ethics” in order to be more inclusive of its many growing areas of work, as well as any future programs that might develop.
A redesigned website premiered at the Holiday Party. The website features a calendar of ethics-related events at Emory, an online version of the print newsletter, an ethics glossary, multimedia files, and staff bios.
As part of its updated public face the Center commissioned the new “ethics flame,” which will feature prominently in Center materials. The ethics flame also premiered at the Holiday Party.
Beginning in March, the Center will experiment with an exclusively email newsletter, as suggested at the last joint board meeting. The new newsletter will not replace the semiannual print newsletter; instead, it will serve as a supplement, providing more frequent event updates as well as thought-provoking articles from the Center for Ethics community. To subscribe to the email newsletter, you must visit the Center’s website.
Look for the Center’s new informational brochure later this year.
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