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About Us What is the Center for ETHICS*? |
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About Us What is the Center for ETHICS*? |
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Ethical Theory and Honor In Competition and Sport The Center for ETHICS* at the University of Idaho offers study, intervention, outreach, consultation, and leadership in developing and advancing the theory, knowledge and understanding of character education including moral and ethical reasoning, moral development, ethical leadership, and ethical application. What is the Center's Mission? Believing and teaching the tradition of competitive integrity to inspire leaders of character." What is the Center's Goal? To return the classical concepts of justice, integrity, and responsibility in competition through education, research, and applied ethical, intervention programs. What are the Center's Objectives The Center is home to many people from many different expertise levels. We have many professors, graduate students, and undergraduate students. To learn more about the center staff, click here. What Does the Center Do? The Center, through its director and faculty, provides classes, workshops, applied interventions, evaluations, assessments, and consultation about character education and all its perspectives to any organization, profession, industry, and discipline. For more information on specific character education curriculum, methodology, and programs for K-12, click here. The Centers staff has written teacher texts, Sport Ethics: Applications for Fair Play, athlete texts, Who Says This Is Cheating, developed computer generated interactive CD-ROM teaching tools, Performance Enhancing Drug Use, teacher curriculum materials, teacher methodologies, and computer assisted teaching materials. The staff has also developed student texts in Principled Thinking for K-12 using sport as a milieu, as well as, commissioned curricular works for specific athletic programs.
The Center houses the largest statistical information (approximately 60,000 inventories as of June 2002) base of the Hahm-Beller Values Choice Inventory in the Sport Milieu in America on moral reasoning of athletes, from junior high students through the elite level, and Division I-III NCAA. The Center has produced over 250 research articles. The research base also includes information on professional character development as well as the development of numerous other competitive populations. How Does the Center Work? The Center is composed of interested people who are committed to the proposition that a specific, copyrighted educational program can make a difference in how people make moral decisions and how these decisions affect other people. The Director--responsible for and oversees all of the Center's scholarly and academic activities as well as all applied strategies by formulating ideas, concepts, and direction. The Director stimulates innovative approaches and creative ideas about intervention, teaching methodology, research activities, and generally promotes the interests of the Center. Research/Measurement Specialist--responsible for designing, carrying out, and implementing various research projects using cognitive instruments.
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Graduate Work in Sport Ethics in the Division of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance
An undergraduate minor in Sport Ethics, a Master's Degree in Physical Education, and a Ph.D. in Education are all available at the University of Idaho, with emphasis and majors in Sport Ethics and Sport Philosophy. All graduates from the Sport Ethics/Sport Philosophy program have found professional opportunities in their chosen fields.
The Center for ETHICS* employs graduate students to assist with the numerous research projects the Center conducts. These assistants conduct research, read philosophical material, contribute content to and edit the Athletes of Character text book series, act as consultants, act as editors, input and analyze data, critique the managerial process, review and develop policies, among other important tasks. The graduate assistantship is a paid position and offers many excellent resources for ones' academic and professional progress.
Currently, there are four graduate assistants working at the Center, Cheryl Weiss, Kim Robertello, David Brunner, and Justin Barnes. Please contact any of them or the director, Dr. Stoll, for any questions about these positions.
The Center for ETHICS* also works with undergraduates who want to do their internship requirement for the degree they are pursuing. There are always a variety of projects going on at the Center and doing an internship with the Center is a great way to learn about research and get exposed to different types of research opportunities.
Our center is a year round enterprise and we presently have contracts through Winningwithcharacter.com especially working with University of Georgia football, University of Alabama football, University of Maryland football, and the Atlanta Braves baseball developmental teams as well as more than 30 high schools and junior colleges.
We develop curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluative instruments to help coaches teach the basics of servant leadership to their young men and women. What we do at the center is write curriculums based on virtue and servant leadership.
If we teach then we are obligated to evaluate the learning, thus begins a different work venue - we develop instruments both qualitative and quanitative to measure learning....especially cognitive moral reasoning.
Summers here at the Center are busy and active. We are either writing, editing, revising, or developing new curriculums because at present we have approximately 40 different texts in some state of the above. We also are inputting data and struggling to manage the largest data base in America on moral reasoning of Athlete Populations. Summer staff is 4 research assistants and Dr. Stoll.
Our internships are unpaid because we are and educational enterprise and because at the present moment all of our money goes into research and graduate student education. However, we do have interns show up here, work hard, and then clammer to come back to study.
Tyler Wilt is currently interning with the Center to obtain a minor in sport ethics.
Contact Dr. Sharon Stoll for more information and/or any questions.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
One of the unique things that the Center for ETHICS* has to offer is the opportunity for undergraduates to do research. In the Fall of 1998, a group of undergraduates at the University of Idaho who had all taken a class taught by Dr. Stoll, started an undergraduate research team. The PLAY Group tackled philosophical issues and developed a position paper on the importance of play (physical activity) across the lifespan. The article was published in the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, November/December 2000 issue.
The Center began with a mission to improve American sport but now
addresses needs in business, law, education, and the military, i.e., the American Bar
Association, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, the
United States Central Intelligence Agency, the NCAA, NFHSAA, NYSCA, Washington
State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia
Football Team, and the Atlanta Braves developmental baseball teams. For a
complete list of the schools that the Center is currently involved with,
click here.
For More Information About the Center for ETHICS* at the
University of Idaho, e-mail: sstoll@uidaho.edu, or call: VOICE/FAX (208) 885-2103;
or write: Center for ETHICS*, University of Idaho, 500 Memorial Gymnasium,
Moscow, ID 83844-2429. Music used by permission: Robert Dickow, Moscow, ID,
California
Women's Caucus, and Airo Design, Inc.
Click below for a glossary of terms commonly used at the Center for *ETHICS
