ADVISORY/Santa Clara University Faculty Expert on Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Available for Comment on Mutual Fund Industry Scandal.News Editors/Business Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHAT: Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. University faculty expert available to comment on the implications of the mutual fund industry scandals, the crisis of confidence, and the erosion of public trust in mutual fund governance and leadership. WHO: Kirk O. Hanson, university professor and executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University provides a nationally recognized academic forum for research and dialogue concerning all areas of applied ethics. at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif. Contact: Deepa Arora, SCU SCU Santa Clara University SCU Southern Cross University (New South Wales, Australia) SCU Southern California University of Health Sciences (Whittier, California) SCU Serious Crimes Unit SCU Special Care Unit media relations at 408-554-5125 or Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at 408-554-7893 to set up interviews. About the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif., is a nationally recognized resource for people and organizations that want to study and apply an ethical approach to decision-making. The center supports research, assists faculty in integrating ethics into their courses and helps businesses, schools, hospitals and other organizations put ethics to work. Ethics center programs include: biotechnology and health care ethics; business ethics business ethics, the study and evaluation of decision making by businesses according to moral concepts and judgments. Ethical questions range from practical, narrowly defined issues, such as a company's obligation to be honest with its customers, to broader social ; K-12 character education; philosophical questions in applied ethics Applied ethics is a discipline of philosophy that attempts to apply 'theoretical' ethics, such as utilitarianism, social contract theory, and deontology, to real world dilemmas. , public policy and government ethics, and emerging issues in ethics. www.scu.edu/ethics About Santa Clara University Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,060 students' rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the fourth-highest graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. rate among all U.S. masters' universities, California's oldest higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. More information is online at www.scu.edu. |
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