2021 Ethics Awareness Week

September 28th - October 1st

Theme
Ethical Dimensions
of Civic Life


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Schedule of Events

Tuesday, September 28th


10:00 to
11:15 a.m.


Tuesday

Lecture & Discussion 
School of the Arts

"The Arts in American Civic Culture"

Barbara Schaffer Bacon
Co-director, Animating Democracy
Americans for the Arts


session video

 

11:30 to
12:45 p.m.


Tuesday

Panel Discussion
Woodbury School of Business

"Corporate Civic Awareness and Social Responsibility"
What Do Businesses Owe Society?

Angela Schill, Visiting Professor of Organizational Leadership, UVU

Jill Jasperson, Professor of Legal Studies, UVU

Jeff Peterson, Professor of Organizational Leadership, UVU

Jonathan Westover, Academic Director, UVU Center for Social Impact

 

session video

 

1:00 to
2:15 p.m.

Tuesday

Panel Discussion
College of Humanities & Social Sciences

"Critical Race Theory:
A New Prejudice or Moral Panic?"

Kevin Wolfe
Assistant Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate University

 

Derek Monson
Vice President for Policy, Sutherland Institute

Michael Goode
Associate Professor of History, UVU

 

session video

 

2:30 to
3:45 p.m.

Tuesday

Panel Discussion
UVU African Diaspora

"Campus Perspectives
on Critical Race Theory"

Diane McAdams-Jones
Associate Professor of Nursing, UVU


Pauline Fonua
School of Education, UVU

 

David Ssejinja
Advisor, UVU Multicultural Student Services


session video

 

Wednesday, September 29th


10:00 to
10:50 a.m.


Wednesday

Panel Discussion
National Security Studies

"The Ethics of Withdrawing from Conflicts"
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

Ryan Vogel
Director, UVU Center for National Security Studies

 

Greg Jackson
Deputy Director, UVU National Security Studies Program


session video

 

11:00 to
11:50 a.m.

 

Wednesday

Keynote Address
Center for the Study of Ethics

"Social Peace in a Divided Time"

Portrait of Yuval Levin.

 

Yuval Levin
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Editor-in-Chief, National Affairs 

 

Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founding and current editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a contributing editor to National Review.

Dr. Levin and scholars in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division study the foundations of self-government and the future of law, regulation, and constitutionalism. They also explore the state of American social, political, and civic life, while focusing on the preconditions necessary for family, community, and country to flourish.

 

Dr. Levin served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. 


session video

 

1:00 to
1:50 p.m.

 

Wednesday

Excellence in Ethics Award & Keynote Address
Center for the Study of Ethics

"Civil Liberties and Civic Virtues"

Portrait of Brittney Nystrom

 

Brittney Nystrom
Executive Director,
American Civil Liberties Union of Utah

 

Brittney Nystrom joined the ACLU of Utah as Executive Director in August 2016. 

 

Prior to this, Brittney served as Director for Advocacy at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) in Washington, D.C. where she advocated on behalf of refugees, unaccompanied children, immigrants in detention, and other vulnerable populations.  Before LIRS, Brittney was the Director of Policy and Legal Affairs at the National Immigration Forum, where her advocacy focused on due process concerns and overdue reforms to the immigration system.

 

Earlier in her career, she represented detained individuals facing deportation and advocated for humane detention conditions as the Legal Director at the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition. She spent several years in private practice, as well, as part of the litigation team at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen, LLP, also in Washington, D.C.


session video

 

2:00 to
2:50 p.m.


Wednesday

Panel Discussion
University College

"If  Past is Prologue, What Does this Mean for a Post-Pandemic America?"

Christian Anderson
Associate Professor of Higher Education
University of South Carolina

 

Chris Goslin
Associate Professor Student Leadership & Success Studies, UVU

 

Benjamin Johnson, 
Associate Professor Student Leadership & Success Studies, UVU


session video

Thursday, September 30th

10:00 to
11:15 a.m.


Thursday

Panel Discussion
School of Education

"Civics in Public Schools"
Keeping the Peace in the Hallway and the Classroom

Axel Ramirez, Professor of Secondary Education, UVU

Kalee Crandall, Assistant Professor of School Counseling, UVU 

Dale Cox,  Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, UVU

Moderator:
Bryan Waite, Professor and Chair of Secondary Education, UVU


session video

1:00 to
2:15 p.m.

 

Thursday

Panel Discussion
College of Health & Public Service

"COVID, Civics & Civility"
When Disinformation Spreads Faster Than a Virus

Heather Thiesset, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Administration, UVU

Francine Jensen, Associate Professor of Nursing, UVU

Allison Ensign, Assistant Professor of Nursing, UVU

Sarah Hall, Associate Professor of Public Health, UVU

Moderator: Jennie Olson, Academic Advisor, CHPS, UVU


session video

 

2:30 to
3:45 p.m.

 

Thursday

Panel Discussion
Department of Communication

"The Marketplace of Ideas" Misinformation, Ethics & Social Media 

Leandra Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Communication, UVU

David W. Scott, Professor of Communication, UVU

Stevie Munz, Assistant Professor of Communication, UVU


session video

 

Friday, October 1st


2:00 to
4:00 p.m.

 

Friday

Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Peace & Justice Studies & Fulton Library

"Day of Rage"
How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol

Jay DeSart
Professor and Chair, Department of History & Political Science, UVU

Richard Cho
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UVU


Moderator: Lynn England

Director, Peace & Justice Studies Program, UVU 

 

*Please use the link below to watch the documentary

https://youtu.be/jWJVMoe7OY0


session video