During this time of unprecedented crisis within the Penn
State community, the Rock Ethics Institute remains committed to fostering
careful reflection and dialogue concerning the many ethical challenges facing our community. We acknowledge
our responsibility to participate in addressing the particularly difficult
challenges that recent revelations have raised by initiating and lending our support
to programs that aim both to increase awareness of and to foster careful reflection
concerning issues such as:
- ethically appropriate responses to the spectrum
of harms done to children who have been sexually assaulted
- the interrelations between individual and institutional ethical responsibility, and
- the requirements for a diverse and multi-faceted organization like Penn State both to advocate for and to exemplify integrity in all aspects of its mission.
The Penn State Rock Ethics Institute will draw on the
expertise of members of the community, on the Institute's existing resources in
the areas of ethical leadership and moral literacy, as well as on the resources
that are emerging from our current examination of institutional corruption in
support of this reflection and dialogue. We appreciate input from anyone in the
community concerning how we might best facilitate this challenging process.
Please leave your comments below.
