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• `Charting the Integration of

Ethics in the Business Curriculum

David TuriBeth Castiglia

Division of Business and Management Sciences

Felician College

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• `Business Ethics at Felician College

Mission Statement

• Felician College is an independent co-educational Catholic/Franciscan College founded and sponsored by the Felician Sisters to educate a diverse population of students within the framework of a liberal arts tradition. Its mission is to provide a full complement of learning experiences, reinforced with strong academic and student development programs designed to bring students to their highest potential and prepare them to meet the challenges of the new century with informed minds and understanding hearts. “The enduring purpose of Felician College is to promote a love for learning, a desire for God, self-knowledge, service to others, and respect for all creation.”

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Vision Statement

• To be a pre-eminent Catholic Franciscan College where scholarship and the practice of teaching and learning place students first in the enduring quest for truth and the persistent pursuit of competence, character, and compassion.

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• `Ethics at Felician College

“A great society is a society in which men (women) of business think greatly of their functions.”

Alfred North Whitehead

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• `Focus on Core Competencies

Core objective to be met by each course in our Business Core and Major Requirements include the following competency:

• Critical Reasoning• Effective Communication• Ethical Decision-Making• Quantitative Literacy• Teamwork• Personal Responsibility

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Relevance as it relates to our mission.

Relevance as it relates to business.

Relevance as it relates to society.

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• Felician College does require all business students in their Junior year to take a 300 level course, “Ethics in the Corporate Environment” as part of the business core.

Exclusive reliance on one required course is institutionally and pedagogically misguided.

This Ethics course is used as an assessment course before student graduate.

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• ` IntroductionBusiness Ethics at Felician College

• Ethics in the Corporate Environment – Required Course

• Case Study Method

• JD or CPA Faculty.

• In addition all students take a Core Course in the Franciscan Tradition which requires service learning throughout the semester.

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• ` Curriculum Mapping and Assessment

Charting Learning Outcomes

• What is Curriculum Mapping?

• Curriculum Mapping and Transparency.

• Curriculum Mapping and Accreditation.

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• `Curriculum Mapping and Assessment

Charting Learning Outcomes

• Charting Student Learning Outcomes

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• `Assessment

Tools and Data

• Ethics Infused in MBA.

• Business Core Assessment.

• Capstone undergraduate assessment.

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• ` Teaching Strategy

• How to integrate Ethics in to curriculum?

• Experiential approach.

• Faculty as facilitator.

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• ` Faith-Based Institutions

• Whose Ethics?

• Shared values?

• Faculty/Student comfort levels.

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• ` Conclusion

• Students recognize the importance of ethics and ethical issues and appear to be willing to take courses in ethics. At a minimum, they recognize the need to discuss ethics within each of their courses.

• We also conclude that students want programs that teach them how to handle problematic ethical situations and how to avoid becoming involved in them in the first place.

• Just as business students need to develop tools and skills to aid them in the decision-making process in management or marketing, they also need tools and skills for ethical decision making.

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• ` Conclusion

• Through our research, we believe that the inclusion of ethics in the business curriculum needs to be tackled in two ways:

• As the topic of a stand-alone course, which is part of the business core requirements, and

• Integrated within all courses, allowing students to see how ethics relates to specific academic topics.

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