Note: Below is the announcement posted prior to this workshop. This activity was part of the FaCE Project Phase I, which operated from Fall 2004 through Spring 2008. For information about current FaCE Project Phase II activities, go to the FaCE home page.

Teaching Ethics and Health

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• A Common Interest Workshop funded by the ACM Mellon FaCE Project
• This workshop will held be in conjunction with Ripon College's "Ethics and Health Care" Conference
• Dates: April 4-5, 2008
• Host: Ripon College in Ripon, WI
• Workshop organizer: Jody Roy, Assistant Dean of Faculty, Ripon College (920-748-8712)
• Deadline to identify participants: February 15, 2008

Ripon Conference on "Ethics and Health Care"

The Ripon College Ethical Leadership Program sponsors an annual conference which invites significant leaders in particular fields to engage in public dialogue about ethics.

The 2006 Ethics and the Media Conference featured keynotes by Peggy Noonan, Fred Barnes, and Tim Russert; keynote speakers for the 2007 Ethics and Sports Conference included Miles Brand, head of the NCAA, and Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

The theme of the 2008 conference will be "Ethics and Health Care."

Ripon College would like to invite representatives from each ACM college to join us for the 2008 Ethics and Health Care Conference and to participate in a professional development workshop entitled "Teaching Ethics and Health."

To participate in the workshop

For information about attending, please contact the workshop organizer: Jody Roy, Assistant Dean of Faculty, Ripon College (920-748-8712).

Participants should be identified to Jody Roy by February 15, 2008.

ACM Workshop on "Teaching Ethics and Health"

Workshop goals:

• To share the resources of the 2008 Ethics and Health Care Conference with faculty from all ACM institutions;
• To stimulate discussion of how faculty at liberal arts colleges can engage students in consideration of ethical issues related to health-care policies, pharmaceutical research, and other topics;
• To assist faculty in developing teaching strategies to incorporate studies of ethics and health into their courses.

Target audience

In an era of stem-cell research and calls for national health-care reform, students and faculty in a wide variety of disciplines often grapple with the complex ethical dilemmas related to health in the twenty-first century.

Faculty from the fields of biology, chemistry, philosophy, sociology, political science, and economics will find the proposed workshop particularly useful.

Workshop outcomes

• Participants will leave the workshop with ideas for integrating issues of ethics and health into both field-specific and interdisciplinary contexts, with strategies for engaging students in meaningful discussion of highly controversial subject matter, and with knowledge of the "best practices" for teaching ethics and health.
• Ripon College will make the results of the workshop available to all ACM faculty via electronic publication.

Preliminary Workshop and Conference schedule

All panels and times are subject to change.

Friday, April 4

8:00 am: Registration for ACM workshop on "Teaching Ethics and Health." A light breakfast will be served.

8:30 am: Workshop Opening Remarks: Ethics, Health, and the Liberal Arts

9:00 am: Workshop Session -- Interdisciplinary Applications of Ethics and Health: Best Practices in the ACM

A representative from each college participating in the workshop will be asked to provide a brief summary of how faculty at his or her college collaborate to teach ethics and health.

10: 45 am: Workshop Session -- Ethics, Health and Departmental and Divisional Learning Goals

Workshop participants will meet in departmental and/or divisional groups to discuss how expanded consideration of ethics and health might contribute to the learning goals they have set for students and also how institutions can assess student learning related to ethics.

12:00 noon: Lunch for ACM workshop participants

1:00 pm: Welcome: David C. Joyce, President, Ripon College

1:15 pm: Conference Keynote (To be announced)

2:30 pm: Conference Panel -- Costs, Coverage, and Community: Diverse Communities

• Jerry Waukau, Director of Health Services for the Menominee Indian Nation
• Joia Mukherjee, Medical Director of Partners in Health
• Donna Friedsam, Associate Director for Health Policy, Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin

4:30 pm: Workshop Session -- Difficult Topics, Difficult Discussions: Engaging Students in Dialogue about Sensitive Subjects

Using a case study approach, break-out groups will collaborate to devise strategies for creating safe discussion environments, and for managing some students' fears about speaking their opinions on controversial topics like stem-cell research.

6:00 pm: Reception and Dinner for participants, hosts, and special guests

Saturday, April 5

9:00 am: Workshop Session -- Ethics and Health Outside the Classroom: Empowering Students through Service-Learning

Local representatives from Campus Compact and veteran service-learning practitioners will discuss how faculty can engage students in issues by engaging them in community action.

10:30 am: Conference Keynote (To be announced)

12:00 noon: Luncheon for participants, hosts, and special guests

1:30 pm: Conference Panel -- Costs, Coverage, and Community: Costs and Coverage

• Panelists to be announced

3:30 pm: Conference Panel -- Costs, Coverage, and Community: End of Life Issues

• Stephen Kiernan, author of Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Health Care System
• Nick Turkal, President and CEO, Aurora Health Care
• Third panelist -- To be announced
• Dr. John J. Gregory, Director, Palliative Care Program and Chairman, Bioethics Committee, Overlook Hospital, Summit NJ, and former Administrative Medical Director, Atlantic Hospice.

5:30 pm: Closing Reception