Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Ethics Center Directors Summit

Sponsored by Business Integrity Leadership Initiative, University of Arkansas, Sam M. Walton College of Business.

Georgia 6

Thursday, February 20, 2020

8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

 

8:00 a.m.        Continental Breakfast and Networking 

8:30 a.m.        Welcome / Ice Breaker    Brad Agle / Ralph Ferguson

                                                                    Rose Procter / Janey Roeder

9:15 a.m.        Moderated Roundtable Discussions (Rounds 1 and 2)              Janey Roeder

• Adding Value through Speakers and Programs                   Cara Biasucci  
• Establishing an Ethics Center on your Campus                     Andrew Hill
• Fundraising and Sustainability                                                  Don Heider
• Leveraging your Digital Presence                                           Lora Lopez
• Offering Consulting Services                                                    Rose Procter
• Succession Planning for your Center                                      Ralph Ferguson

10:15 a.m.      Break

10:30 a.m.      Continue Roundtable Discussions (Round 3 and wrap-up)

11:15 a.m.      Building the Community and Sharing Resources                         Brad Agle  

12:05 p.m.      National Ethics Project Update                                                      Deni Elliott / Maggie Schein

12:15 p.m.      Lunch Speaker:  What Awesome Looks Like                               

1:15 p.m.        Break

1:30 p.m.        Advisory Councils                                                                             Rose Procter 

2:15 p.m.        Engaging University Leadership                                                     Ralph Ferguson

2:50 p.m.        Concluding Remarks                                                                      

Research Integrity Pre-Conference Workshop

Thursday, February 20, 2020    8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Sheraton Atlanta Hotel  |  Atlanta, Georgia

Keynote Speaker

C.K. Gunsalus

Director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This pre-conference is dedicated to fostering research integrity, scholarship, and networking.  The APPE RISE Consortium  seeks to engage researchers and scholars in the responsible conduct of research as well as bring new interests and activities to APPE.

Workshop Organizers:

Dena Plemmons, University of California, Riverside

Michael Kalichman, University of California, San Diego

Agenda

8:30am     Registration

Display Posters*

9:00     Introduction, Overview - Plemmons & Kalichman

9:15     Keynote and Q&A - C.K. Gunsalus

9:45     Panel 1

Jordan - Designing an RCR Curriculum for Artificial Intelligence Research

Shriver - Understanding and Supporting Oversight Professionals’ Roles in Ensuring the Responsible Conduct of Research

Hildt and Laas - Towards Expanding the Concept of Responsible Conduct of Research

10:45     Break

11:00     Panel 2

Pease - Effectiveness of Multi-Media in Teaching Research Ethics and Integrity

Solomon Cargill - RCR Education as Behavioral Intervention: Improving pedagogy by learning from behavioral change theory

McCleskey - Assessing the Uncertain: How Philosophy Can Aid Assessment Efforts in Ethics Training

12:00pm     Lunch - RISE luncheon in Georgia 3

1:00     Panel 3

Bruton - What Should be Done to Reduce QRPs in Your Field?: Responses from Federally Funded Researchers

Ribeiro - The Influence of Retractions on the Career of Scientists from the most Productive Countries in the Biomedical Sciences

Moskovitz - Findings from the Text Recycling Research Project

Rasmussen - A Survey of Institutional Authorship Policies

2:20     Plemmons & Kalichman - Wrap-up and next steps

3:00     Adjourn

*Posters (8:30am-3pm)

Ellison - Hosting Workshops to Foster Community:  First Steps in Transforming the Online Ethics Center and STEM Ethics Education

Moustafa - Curbing the Practices of Research Misconduct: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of Researchers at Egyptian Public Institutions

The Complementary Roles of Ethics and Law in Improving the Public’s Health

Public health officials regularly have to balance competing ethical, legal and professional obligations (e.g., allocating scarce resources efficiently but fairly, protecting community health without violating individual rights, or conducting surveillance while ensuring data confidentiality).  Compared to the patient focus of clinical ethics or the bioethical focus on individual autonomy, public health ethics explores ethical issues that arise at the population level. This population focus raises special ethical challenges, such as how to work across sectors, engage communities, and incorporate a variety of stakeholder values and interests in making decisions. Public health ethics provides an approach for evaluating, prioritizing, and weighing these interests and values and sometimes negotiating compromises between them.

Those in practice regularly consider ethical issues under the rubric of a thorny practical problem. They often lack awareness that resources and procedures are available to address these problems. Recognizing their ethical aspects allows practitioners to utilize ethics resources and address these problems more confidently and effectively. Leonard Ortmann will explore the unique problems and principles that arise in the field of public health ethics and distinguish them from those in research ethics, clinical ethics, and bioethics. He will also illustrate how ethical values and scientific facts can work in tandem to tackle thorny problems.  Because statutory authority plays a key role in public health, Matthew Penn will consider how law and ethics complement each other in public health. Kathy Kinlaw will consider innovative approaches for training the next generation of public health professionals to foster their ability to recognize and address ethical challenges. Because community trust is equally key to success in public health, both she and Leonard Ortmann will discuss ways to engage the public to foster trust in public health recommendations. Drue Barrett will describe resources for building skills in public health ethics. To enhance the learning experience, the workshop will include interactive activities, such as discussion of cases, instructor modeling, and large and small group discussions.

Workshop Learning Objectives:

1. Distinguish the field of public health ethics from other fields of ethics.
2. Describe how public health ethics and law can work together to address ethical challenges.
3. List practical approaches for training public health students and professions about the ethical practice of public health.
4. Discuss approaches for building trust in public health recommendations.
5. Describe resources for building skills in public health ethics

For speakers and bios, click here: https://appe-ethics.org/thursday-public-health-ethics-workshop/

Sponsored by Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

The 2020 Graduate Student and Early Career Scholar Seminar is a 2.5 hour workshop offered on Thursday from 12:30 – 3 p.m. in conjunction with the 2020 APPE Annual Conference on Thursday.

This highly interactive seminar is intended for graduate students and early career scholars who are currently teaching classes in ethics (for less than three years) or who have plans to do so. It is designed to boost confidence, confront pedagogical issues and provide philosophical comfort. Topics for the session include learning goals, pedagogical approaches and assessment strategies.  Prior to the seminar, participants will be invited to help shape the session to meet individual needs.

Enrollment is limited and on a first come basis.

Taught by Dr. Wendy Wyatt

Wyatt has been an active member of APPE for 20 years and has a longstanding interest in ethics teaching, which started at the University of Montana where she pursued a master’s in philosophy with a teaching ethics emphasis. Most of Wyatt’s ethics teaching has been in the areas of media and communication, and she has taught the capstone ethics course in the St. Thomas Communication and Journalism department for 15 years. She has also worked with elementary and middle school students, community groups, professional organizations and senior citizen programs. Wyatt is the author or editor of three books, and her work on journalism ethics and ethics pedagogy appears in several edited volumes and journals. Recently, Wyatt was part of the five-person editorial team that guided development of the Online News Association’s Build Your Own Ethics Code platform. This crowd-sourced tool, funded by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, allows journalists to easily customize and publish a digital ethics code.

APPE Annual Conference Opening Reception

Sponsored by the APPE Board of Directors

Compliance and Ethics:  An Essential Symbiosis

Friday, February 21, 2020   8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

I.           Continental Breakfast & Networking       
                                                 
II.          Welcome - Dennis Cooley

III.         Opening Remarks (8:45 a.m.) - Keith T. Darcy , President, Darcy Partners Inc.  
         
IV.          Panel Discussion   (9 a.m.)

What do compliance officers & ethicists need and want?  A conversation about expectations and approaches

- Nathan Nobis, Ph.D. (Moderator), Associate Professor, Philosophy, Morehouse College  

- Daryl Koehn, Ph,D., Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics, DePaul University

- Blair Marks, MS, MBA, Vice President, Ethics & Business Conduct, Lockheed Martin    

- Danette O’Neal, Ph.D., Broker/Owner, Danette O’Neal Realtors  

V.         Panel Discussion  (10 a.m.)
Compliance and ethics challenges & creative approaches to address them

- Eddy Nahmias, Ph.D. (Moderator), Professor & Chair, Philosophy, Georgia State University

  - Arnold B. Evans, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Ethics Officer, SunTrust Bank / Truist Financial Corporation

-  Beverly J. Kracher, Ph.D., Executive Director, Business Ethics Alliance, Robert B. Daugherty Chair in Business Ethics and Society, Creighton University  

-  Patricia H. Werhane, Ph.D., Fellow & Visiting Professor, Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

VI.        Moderated Conversation (11 a.m.) - Ed Carr & Gretchen A. Winter

VII.       Lunch (noon)

VIII.      Special Address (1 p.m.) - Alexandra Wrage, President, TRACE

IX.         Concluding Remarks (1:30 p.m.) - Thomas Creely    

Seminar Abstract

Educational institutions offer students numerous courses on ethical decision-making; the hope is that students become ethical employees well equipped to make ethical decisions.

Organizational ethics and compliance programs must incorporate values, purpose, and rules, and also educate employees about how to respond to situations that present ethical and compliance dilemmas in their work.

By bringing together compliance professionals and ethicists during this APPE program, participants will see the essential symbiosis of ethics and compliance, develop better understandings and more effective education materials, and form mutually beneficial working relationships.

The Law, Government and Military SIS group welcomes everyone interested in our subject area to join us for a casual meeting 12:30 to 1:30 pm, Friday, Feb. 21 at Fandangles Restaurant & Bar  located in the conference hotel.  If you plan to attend, please email / RSVP Tim Shiell by Feb. 20 at shiellt@uwstout.edu so we know how many seats to reserve. 

Guest Speaker:

Paul A. Lombardo

Georgia State University

Victims Again? 

Pursuing Justice for the Subjects of the

Public Health Service/ Guatemala STD Studies

Since an historian’s revelation in 2010 of archival records describing a United States Public Health Service study carried out just after World War II, the research scandal involving intentional infection of some 1300 Guatemalans with syphilis and other STDs has periodically returned to the headlines.  That news initially prompted an apology by President Obama to the President of Guatemala, and an investigative report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues entitled “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946-1948.  Despite promises from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to invest $1.8 million to “improve the treatment and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases,” neither that funding nor any money to compensate the families of people victimized in the research debacle has reached Guatemala.

One class action lawsuit by the families of victims against the US government was dismissed in 2012. A second suit asking $1 billion in damages was filed in 2015 against Johns Hopkins University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb on behalf of more than 840 Guatemalans.  Most recently, a motion for sanctions against the lawyers bringing that suit has been filed.  Depositions and other material collected during discover has “revealed that plaintiffs’ claims are based on manufactured evidence, false sworn statements, and unsupportable allegations,” according to the brief of the defendants. The numbers of Guatemalan plaintiffs has been dramatically reduced, and approximately 150 remain in the lawsuit.

This paper will analyze the path of litigation and explore the likelihood that this lawsuit may well turn out to be but another episode in the re-victimization of people in Guatemala who still await redress for the wrongs done to their families more than 70 years ago.

Topic Table Luncheon

Table 1:

How Should We Deal with Ethicists Who Behave Unethically?

Convenor: Charlotte McDaniel, Emory University

We affirm the contributions of our work in ethics and the parallel importance of providing guidance, even modeling, of ethical behavior by those of us engaging this field.  However, as much as we assume our colleagues behave in ethical manner; unfortunately, that is not the case.  While it is more rare than common, when unethical behaviors occur they pose sensitive and difficult issues. This Table Topic will engage attendees in shared constructive conversation about cases that occurred, what an appropriate response is;  raise the question of whether there is an association or ‘institutional’ policy response we might consider.  Please join us for this timely and important—and rarely discussed—Table Topic.

Table 2:

The Ethics in Political Communication and Advocacy

Convenor: Peter Loge, The George Washington University

How do we teach our students to be ethical advocates? What are the ethics of advocacy? Schools increasingly offer majors, minors, graduate degrees and certificates in political communication. Countless students take courses in speechwriting, strategic political communication, digital advocacy, and related courses. Given the importance this communication to our democratic experiment, ethics should be part of political communication courses and curriculum, political communication ethics should be a field of academic analysis, and political communication professionals and engaged citizens should consider the ethics of their actions. What does that look like? How do we accomplish these goals?

Table 3:

Ethical Issues in Higher Education

Convenors: Marcia McKelligan and Jessica Mejia, DePauw University

Everyone agrees that higher education in the United States faces profound challenges – financial, demographic, political, and social – and that these challenges raise compelling and complex moral questions.  Meeting these challenges requires informed and well-reasoned responses to the underlying questions and hence inquiry into the purpose and value of higher education and careful consideration of the interests, rights and responsibilities of administrators and trustees, students and alumni, and the public. We are in the early stages of a book project on ethics and higher education. At our table discussion, taking case studies on free speech and diversity as a starting point, we hope to stimulate a conversation about some moral problems in academia today and discuss what the most urgent and interesting issues are.

Table 4:

Should Barr be Disbarred?

Convenor: Elliot Cohen, National Philosophical Counseling Association

A petition is circulating to disbar U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr from practicing law in New York and the District of Columbia, where he is licensed. The petition alleges that Barr should be disbarred for conduct largely pursued in his present capacity as attorney general. This topical discussion will look at the evidence to back up the charge that Barr satisfies the legal criteria for disbarment pursuant to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Conduct; and, in light of this discussion, consider whether the New York and Washington, D.C., bar associations should take action to disbar Barr.

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Members Meeting 2020
Sheraton Atlanta Hotel:  Capitol South

Friday, February 21, 2020   5:45 – 6:45 p.m.
 

I.          Welcome from Ed Carr, APPE Board Chair
 

II.          Executive Director’s Report                                               

A.  APPE 29^th Annual Conference (2020) Update
B.   Announcement of APPE’s 30t^h Anniversary Campaign (2021)
C.  Membership Report
D.  Finance Report       
 

III.         APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Overview (Gretchen Winter/John Garcia)
 

IV.        Nominating Committee Report (Elizabeth Heitman, Chair)

A.  Presentation of the 2020 Board Nominees
 

V.        Governance Committee Report (Andrew I. Cohen, Chair)

ACTION ITEM:  Resolution for Membership vote adopting
the recommendations of the Board to amend the
Association’s Bylaws
 

VI.        Member Input & Questions
 

VII.       Adjournment

Authors Reception

Gregory Bock, Center for Ethics, University of Texas at Tyler

The Philosophy of Forgiveness – Volume III: Forgiveness in World Religions

(Vernon Press, Sep 20, 2018)

The Philosophy of Forgiveness – Volume IV: Christian Perspectives on Forgiveness 

(Vernon Press, Sep 20, 2018)

Sonya Charles, Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Cleveland State University

Parents and Virtues: An Analysis of Moral Development and Parental Virtue 

(Lexington Books, March 11, 2019)

Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh, Department of Philosophy, Northern Kentucky University

Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis 

(Vernon Press, September 27, 2018)

Elizabeth Hoppe, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago

Ethical Issues in Aviation

(Routledge; 2nd edition, October 18, 2018)

Terrence Kelly, Department of Philosophy, University of Alaska, Anchorage  

Professional Ethics: A Trust-Based Approach

(Lexington Books, 2018)

Jennifer Kling, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility

(Lexington Books, April 4, 2019)

Daryl Koehn, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University

Toward a New (Old) Theory of Responsibility: Moving beyond Accountability

(Springer, 1st edition 2019 edition, March 29, 2019)

Jonathan H. Marks, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University

The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health

(Oxford University Press, February 28, 2019)

Robert Pennock, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University

An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science

(The MIT Press, August 13, 2019)

Eddy Souffrant, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Global Development Ethics: a Critique of Global Capitalism

(Rowman & Littlefield International, April 15, 2019)

J. Thomas Whetstone III, Consultant/writer in Leadership Ethics

Light for the Dark Side: Ethics Cases for University Administrators 

(Dorrance Pub Co, April 18, 2019)

Leadership Ethics & Spirituality: A Christian Perspective, Revised Edition

(Toplink Publishing, March 25, 2019)

Alexandra Wrage, TRACE

What You Should Know About Anti-Bribery Compliance

(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 25, 2017)

RISE consortium (Research Integrity Scholars-Educators consortium; formerly RCR/RI SIS) will meet 7 – 8 AM for breakfast to: evaluate pre-conference success, select content/format for next year at APPE, and year-in-review.  If you have an interest, you are welcome!  See you soon!

Convenors: Jason Eberl and Gregory Pence

APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl™ National Competition: Judges and Moderators Traning

APPE IEBsm Reception