Founded in 1993, Utah Valley University's "Center for the Study of Ethics" offers regular and special event programming designed to foster community, student and faculty discussion of "Ethics". These events are free and open to the public. Starting in the Fall the Ethics Center holds a regular monthly Ethics Forum. This year we are focusing the monthly ethics forum on "Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy. In September every year we hold "Ethics Awareness Week", a week long series of events featuring speakers and panels from both UVU, other Universities and various programs and institutions. In January we hold our annual "Conference by the Faculty", where UVU faculty hold sessions on a specific topic. Past years included sessions focusing on themes as disparate as "Globalism", BioEthics, PostModernism, and Sustainability. The proceedings from the conference is published before the new school year begins again in the fall. In the spring we feature our annual Environmental Ethics Week and we end the year after spring semester with a special guest brought in to prepare the faculty for the theme for next year's conference by the faculty.
