The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will feature a discussion on how learning in the classroom can support the ethical components of Case Western Reserve University’s mission.
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, will lead the discussion, titled “How to Realize the University Mission’s Ethical Learning Values in Class.”
This UCITE session will be held Thursday, March 7, from 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Herrick Room.
Pizza, sodas and water will be provided at the session. RSVP to ucite@case.edu.
About the session
The Case Western Reserve University mission explicitly names ethics as a core value and specifies a number of sub-values that must be included. Moreover, its simple mission statement depends on ethical and moral deliberation—including social justice—being developed in our students. How else will they be global citizens?
A qualitative study of our undergraduates’ moral development while here conducted in 2015-16 shows we are falling short of our mission goals in crucial areas. It is therefore important that we reevaluate what we are doing regarding ethical, moral and civic learning. One step in doing this is to find out how this learning can be implemented in any classroom in any discipline at any time.