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For more than fifteen years, Mercer Law School has pioneered a virtue ethics approach to professional identity formation within the legal profession by requiring all first-year students to take a course in professional identity that focuses on developing practical wisdom. With the American Bar Association considering an amendment to its accreditation requirements to require a […]

We were on the bus at sunrise in Immokalee, Florida —students and a fellow faculty member with migrant workers on the way to pick oranges for the day. We were part of an experiential Migrant Experiences Seminar I began in the 1990s at the University of Notre Dame to experience first hand migrant life and the complexities […]

“Medicine has lost its way because it lacks clarity about where the way should lead. We no longer have a shared public understanding of what medicine is for, of what the end of medicine is or should be.” In The Way of Medicine, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen offer a teleological approach to medicine. They consider the good […]

Why do we teach? For those of us involved in higher education, answers to this question are bound to vary. We may teach because we’re required to. Or because we desire to impart disciplinary knowledge and skills to our students. Or because we want to equip them for successful careers. Our reasons for teaching may […]

Published June 2021 Growing up, Stanford Education Professor William Damon believed his father had died in World War II. His father actually chose not to return, and established a new life and family for himself overseas. Over the years, there were clues that the family line about a deceased father was not true, but Damon […]

The Making Caring Common project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been working for about 8 years to elevate the importance of raising caring, justice-minded children and to provide resources to teachers and parents to encourage children to care about others and the common good, treat people well day to day, and come […]

This summer, 18 Duke undergraduates pursuing majors in engineering or computer science are exploring the ways moral purpose and character are central to what it means to do good work in technical fields. The Re-Imagining Tech Fellowship includes weekly meetings with readings, speakers and activities that confront the idea that engineers and computer scientists are neutral, and […]

If the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus one truth about modern life, it’s that we are more concerned with the quick fix than slow preventative work. We’ll take that pound of cure any day, so long as we don’t have to contribute an ounce of prevention. Clinicians know this to be the case with […]

For the summer newsletter, we decided to highlight a work of fiction.  “All I am guilty of, Purnendu, listen – all I am guilty of is being a coward.” – Jivan, p. 187 Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, A Burning, is classified in the “Mystery, Suspense and Thriller” category online, but this story is more about the […]

The past year was marked by an abundance of virtual events that brought together panels and speakers who were physically distant and might not otherwise have been able to be together. Many of these talks were recorded and are available for summer viewing. Here is a roundup of some of our favorites from the past […]