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Ethics living-learning community in second year

By Arri Eisen. My family and I are spending our second year living on the Clairmont Campus in a "living-learning community" called BASE (Bridging Academics, Service, and Ethics).

BASE is a collaborative project of the Center for Ethics, Campus Life, the Program in Science & Society, and the Emory Scholars. We live with 28 junior and senior undergraduates committed to connecting intellectual in-class work with everyday out-of-class life.

Center launches 'Student Think Tank' to plan, implement campus ethics events

This year the Center for Ethics will experiment with a new approach to its public events. In April the Center recruited a dozen student leaders to help it plan and implement undergraduate-oriented public programming for the 2004-2005 academic year.

Recruited students were drawn from:

• Ethics and Servant Leadership;
• Bridging Academics, Service, and Ethics;
• Science and Society; and
• Emory Living Wage Coalition (originally an EASL service project).

The diverse group of undergraduates also actively participates in student government and campus activist and service groups. At its initial May meeting, the Think Tank decided to focus its energies this year on the ethics of power, beauty/consumerism, professional ethics, and sexual orientation. Anticipated event formats will likely include film screenings, discussion forums, and student/faculty panels.

The group hopes to develop a major event tentatively titled “Sex, Shopping, and Self” for the spring semester.

Additional film screenings, workshops, and panels planned with the Student Think Tank will be publicized on campus and on the Center for Ethics’ website throughout the year.

BASE: Integrating residential life, ethics, and academics at Emory's Clairmont Campus

I’ve been living with my wife and two sons on Clairmont Campus this year on the same hall with 28 undergraduate students. This is a program called BASE, Bridging Academics, Service, and Ethics, a collaborative effort developed by folks at the Center for Ethics, the Program in Science & Society, and the Emory Scholars Program, with significant support from Campus Life. Our evolving concept is to create a residential college type atmosphere in which students and faculty talk and live learning.

BASE strives for living, learning ideal

By Arri Eisen. I’ve been around universities all my life—my mom and dad taught at one, and I’ve been a student or teacher at one for twenty-two years. What’s become more and more apparent to me is that universities are the best places in the world to be. They’re full of new ideas, weird and wonderful people of all ages, arts, centers, serious stuff, funny stuff, and endless activities for the mind and body.

Center launches new Clairmont Campus student community: 'Bridging Academics, Service, and Ethics' to begin next semester

Nirvana on campus?

No, there has not been a mystical reunion of the famous band—but, the Center for Ethics has teamed with the Program in Science & Society and the Emory Scholars Program to develop, if not a nirvana, then at least a new and exciting environment for truly integrated learning.

Imagine an environment in which students live in the same building as faculty, share meals, and integrate their academic classes with their extracurricular activities. Imagine, for example, a group of undergraduates and faculty tackling a complex issue like stem cell technology and examining the ethical, biological, religious, and political perspectives on the issue by taking classes that address related questions, inviting speakers with expertise for dinner, discussing the fine points of these questions over laundry, developing programs for peers and the community, integrating alumni into the discussion. . .