Speaking Engagements, Study-Abroad Programs, Research Keep Faculty Busy

If you think academics lead a slow-paced existence, think again, at least in regards to the Jepson faculty. Some recent faculty undertakings include the following:  

Both Joanne Ciulla and Douglas Hicks made presentations at the World Ethics Forum on “Leadership, Ethics, and Integrity in Public Life” sponsored by the World Bank in Oxford, England, April 9-12, 2006. Ciulla’s speech “Ethics and Effectiveness” focused on the relationship between competence and ethics in leadership.  

Antioch professor Richard Couto,

left, and Douglas Hicks, right, in

 Oxford for the World Ethics Forum

Hicks gave a presentation on his paper “Public-Sector Leadership, Development, and Ethics” in which he suggested ways the international-development community can widen a narrow focus on technical and managerial approaches in order to attend to broad ethical issues of public leadership.  

A month later on May 10, 2006, Ciulla spoke before an audience of 450 when she gave the keynote address at the Nikkei Social Responsibility Symposium in Tokyo, Japan. She discussed the meaning of work in today’s economic environment. Nikkei is a financial-industry publisher in Japan. 

Hicks, who will be on sabbatical during the upcoming academic year, will teach a graduate course on “Christianity and the Market” at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond during the fall semester.  

Then he’ll head to Spain where he’ll conduct research from February through April in the political science department at the University of Granada on his next book project on leadership, religious diversity and civil society in the United States and Spain. Hicks obtained two grants to help fund his research: a Foreign Researcher Sabbatical Grant for 2007 from Spain’s Ministry of Education and Science and a research grant for 2006 from the Pluralism Project of Harvard. 

Terry Price, who launched the Jepson at Cambridge program last summer, will return to Cambridge University’s Emmanuel College July 9-August 12 with eight students for a focused study on leadership and law. Following Jepson at Cambridge, Price, who holds a PhD in philosophy, will spend the 2006-2007 academic year as a visiting associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

Thad Williamson received a $1,600 grant from the Virginia Federation for Independent Colleges to help support his ongoing work on sprawl. The specific funding will assist with research into possible constitutional restraints on proposed anti-sprawl strategies as well as the collection of materials on recent growth-containment policies adopted by states and municipalities. 

Williamson began serving on the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership (IPSL)  Board of Trustees in May 2006. IPSL, a New York-based nonprofit, sponsors more than a dozen programs worldwide in which undergraduate and graduate students combine study abroad with service learning.