Center on Ethics

The SJSU Center on Ethics is committed to studying professional and applied ethics and the broader question of how we can do a better job sharing our world.  In the past, we’ve hosted in-person talks and spearheaded a University-wide course in which student teams proposed initiatives to address our changing climate.  More recently, we’ve supported SJSU’s Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl and Bioethics Bowl teams and hosted virtual public talks from experts on social media moderation, vaccine hesitancy, science journalism, immigration ethics, the ethical dimensions of being a scientist with a minoritized identity, and the moral worldviews presented by “prestige” television shows.

There is so much more we want to do, like fostering ethics-focused research collaborations, both among SJSU faculty and students and between SJSU-affiliated researchers and researchers from other universities or organizations, and developing and disseminating resources like white papers or toolkits to support folks at SJSU and beyond in developing effective and meaningful ethics coursework and training.  We can support ethics-focused research with small research grants or student scholarships, or even establish an “ethics residency” program to bring ethics-focused faculty and professionals from the private sector to SJSU to engage with the Center and the broader SJSU community.  Your donation can help us cover the costs of our public-facing speaker series and research initiatives, as well as supporting student-faculty collaborations to engage a wider audience in vital questions about how we share a world with each other.