Institute for Ethics in Public Life

A new clock is ticking. Read Dr. Ray Johnson's latest climate science column in the Plattsburgh Press Republican.

A global response: A recording of the May 12 colloquy led by Dr. Ray Johnson is now available to view on YouTube.

Strengthening American society through undergraduate research The video recording of the Ethics Institute colloquy of May 5, led by Dr. Andreas Stamatis, is now available for viewing.

The Zoom link for Wednesday's colloquy: https://bit.ly/3uEv3Vo

Past Institute Fellow Dr. Breea Willingham just delivered a TEDx talk. Watch it here.

Congratulations to Political Science student Claudia Theagene, who has recently been awarded one of two James Augustus Wilson Scholarships. The Scholarship "rec...ognizes and supports Black/African American students, enrolled full-time at SUNY Plattsburgh, for their academic achievement and leadership." More information on the scholarship and on James Augustus Wilson is available here: https://alumni.plattsburgh.edu/s/1603/bp19/interior.aspx. Claudia was also awarded one of two Douglas Skopp Social Justice Scholarships in Spring 2020, selected by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Claudia is a senior Political Science major with minors in Africana Studies and Legal Studies.

Post-election colloquies available for viewing If you missed any of the three post-election colloquies held recently at the Ethics Institute, you can now access recordings of those dialogues on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist You’ll also be able to watch all of the fall 2020 colloquies and capsule conversations from this past summer and spring.... For more information, contact Ethics Institute director Dr. Jonathan Slater, [email protected]. Follow the Ethics Institute on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plattsethics. The fellowship program at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life is supported by generous gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.

We invite you to read Institute senior scholar Dr. Ray Johnson’s latest observations about climate change.

A recording of Dr. Robert Ackland's colloquy at the Institute on November 18 is now available on YouTube.

The video recording of our November 11 post-election colloquy is now available for viewing. Institute founding director Dr. Tom Moran is joined by past Institute Fellow and political science chair Dr. Dan Lake for an in-depth analysis and deconstruction of the November 3 election.