CENTER FOR ETHICS*
University of Idaho
Center for ETHICS
500 Memorial Gym
Moscow, ID 83844-3080 
Phone: (208) 885-2103
Fax: (208) 885-2108  
Email: ethicsinfo@uidaho.edu

Center for ETHICS* Staff

The present Center staff is dedicated to the prospect of moral education across the spectrum of professional education and serves to support the research, teaching, and service of the Center.

Faculty/Staff

Director of the Center for ETHICS*

Sharon K. Stoll, Ph.D.

    sstoll@uidaho.edu  

 

 

 

 

Dr. Stoll serves as the Director of the Center for ETHICS*.  She is considered one of the leading authorities in competitive moral education intervention techniques for college aged students in America.  Also a professor of Physical Education, Dr. Stoll is a Distinguished Faculty Member and winner of a prestigious University of Idaho Outreach Award in 2000, and a U of I Teaching Award in 1992.  A former public school teacher, coach, and athlete, Dr. Stoll holds a Ph.D. in Sport Philosophy from Kent State University, and is the creator and director of one of the few programs in America that is directed toward moral education with competitive populations.  Dr. Stoll is well known for her knowledge in teaching and methodology as applied to pedagogy in moral education and character development.  Many of Dr. Stoll's students have developed measurement evaluation tools and other curriculum designs that are impacting the knowledge of moral development in sport. 

Author of eight books including, "Who Says It's Cheating?" and "Sport Ethics: Applications for Fair Play", Dr. Stoll is an active lecturer and consultant on various character issues, including moral education, moral reasoning, and moral development. (Curriculum Vita)   She is or has been a consultant for the United States Navy, United States Air Force, the Idaho Bar Association, the American Bar Association, plus various sports organizations, including the President's Commission of the NCAA, the National Youth Sport Coaches' Association, the National Federation of High School Activities Association, and many more independent and private organizations.  In 1993-4, she was in residence at the United States Military Academy at West Point, as a consultant for the Higher Education Program.  Dr. Stoll has been featured on such national programs as "Night Line", "ESPN Sports Center", "ESPN Chat Line", Fox Sports' "Goin' Deep", as well as numerous regional and local news shows as well as documentaries, national newspapers, and magazines.  In 2005, she was featured in over 50 major newspapers in US and abroad describing the Center's latest project working with the Atlanta Braves.  In 2007, she was named as a member of the 100 Most Influential Sport Educators in America with such individuals as Andre Agassi, William Bowen, Bob Costas, Tiger Woods, Pat Summitt, and Mike Krzyzewski.  

The mother of two girls, Amanda and Rachal, Dr. Stoll lives on the Crooked M Ranch in the Mineral Mountain Range of Idaho.
   

Research and Measurement Specialist

Jennifer M. Beller, Ph.D

jbeller@wsu.edu

 

Dr. Beller, an affiliate faculty member,  is the Research/Measurement Specialist for the Center for ETHICS*.  Dr. Beller is an Associate Professor of Education at neighboring Washington State University.  In her role with the Center, she works directly with Center staff and graduate students to help design, carry out, and implement various research projects in moral reasoning, moral development, character education, and sportsmanship. 

Her specialty is the design and validation of cognitive instruments, where she is one of the principle authors of the Hahm-Beller Values Choice Inventory, and the Rudd-Stoll-Beller-Hahm Values Inventory, and the Stevenson-Stoll Social Responsibility Questionnaire.  She also works extensively as a consultant with faculty, graduate students, and others throughout the world on their research projects in moral reasoning, moral development, and character education.

Dr. Beller has one son and lives with her husband in the Hoo Doo Mountains on a ranch in North Idaho.
   

Dr. Viatcheslav Popovsky is an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Ethics. He is the owner and operator of a scientific/educational company, the Russian- American Physical Culture Institute, focused on assisting people of all ages to develop personal efficacy for life through physical culture activities. 

         Dr. Viatcheslav M. Popovsky is a former Associate Professor and Chief of Pedagogical Practice with the St. Petersburg Lesgaft State Physical Culture Academy named after internationally renowned Russian scientist and pedagog P.F. Lesgaft. As lecturer, researcher and coach, and consultant for elite volleyball teams, Dr. Popovsky is well known within international sport educational circles. He has published over 60 articles and books in his field throughout Russia, Europe, and U.S.

          His role in the Center is to promote increasing international understanding of undergraduate (PEP 310) and graduate (PEP 591) students about efficient pedagogical remedies and multi-disciplinary approaches for achieving athletic, fitness and wellness results through the science of physical culture. In his discussions with students he successfully integrates and combines the best of what both East and West have to offer in the physical culture field. He combines what he learned about the theory and methodology of Physical Culture from the Lesgaft Physical Culture Academy, with what he has learned about it from his research and practice through his firm in America. 

For more on Dr. Viatcheslav Popovsky, click here.

Dr. Michael Reall is an affiliate faculty member and is from Columbia, Missouri. Dr. Reall has published in the area of moral action in the business competitive climate.
 

Program Manager

Clinton Culp, Ph.D.

culpca@uidaho.edu

Clinton retired from the United States Marine Corps after 24 years of service in 2009.  From Private to Major, he served as an infantryman, Mountain Leader Instructor and Company Commander.  He received his Bachelors of Business Administration (Computer Information Systems) from West Texas A&M University in 1997 and his Master of Science (Recreation) from the University of Idaho in 2008.  His Master’s thesis was: Perceptions of Risk in Alpine Mountain Climbing between Climbers and Non-Climbers.  He received the 2008 University of Idaho Alumni for Excellence Faculty Award.  Clinton's dissertation research was on “The Pedagogy of Moral Reasoning of U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenants while at The Basic School," in Quantico, Virginia.
 

Graduate Students

   

Susan Steele, M.S.

Ph. D. Candidate

Graduate Assistant/ Curriculum Developer

Susan received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education, with a minor in Health Education from Washington State University in 1981.  Married in 1982, she and husband, Barrie, chose to home-school their two children, Barbara and Ross. A long time Moscow resident, Susan has been actively involved in a variety of civic and volunteer organizations over the years. She completed a Master of Science Degree in Recreation from the University of Idaho in 2005.  From 2005-08, she was an Americorps VISTA at a local elementary school, actively promoting literacy and developing programs to that end where she currently works on a part time basis as the Volunteer Coordinator.  Her involvement in the community and passion for education has led her back to the University of Idaho where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Adult/Organizational Learning and Leadership, and Character Development and Ethics.

   


Tom Grant, M.S.

Ph.D. Student

Tom Grant worked 30 years as a journalist in television and newspapers.

A native of Tonasket, WA, Grant earned a bachelors degree from Washington State University in Pullman, a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, and the Mike Wallace Fellowship in Investigative Reporting at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

He spent much of his journalism career in Spokane, where he worked at KREM, KXLY and The Local Planet newspaper. He won more than 10 national awards for his reporting, including two DuPont-Columbia Awards, often referred to as the Pulitzers of broadcasting. Grants documentary on ethics in sports in the mid-90s won a national prize for public service from the Society of Professional Journalists. He ran for mayor of Spokane in 2003.

He and his wife Mary Ann have three sons.

   
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Seth Haselhuhn, M.S., CSCS

Ph.D. Student
Teaching Assistant - HPERD

Seth received his Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a minor in Coaching from Lewis-Clark State College in 2002 and Master of Science in Recreation and Sports Management from the University of Idaho in 2004.  In the time since, he worked for Columbia Basin College in Pasco, WA, coaching baseball, teaching classes, and coordinating the college's fitness center.  While playing a significant role in one of the nation's top junior college  baseball programs, he also found a passion for teaching.  He will focus is doctoral study areas on moral reasoning in athletic administration, decision making, character assessment and development.

 

   

Former Personnel

Justin Barnes, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor of Advertising
College of Letter, Arts, & Social Sciences
School of Journalism and Mass Media

Dave Brunner, Ph. D.

United States Army Performance Center

Pete Van Mullem, Ph. D.

Central Washington University Assistant Professor

Karen Rickel, Ph. D., CHES

Gonzaga University

Assistant Professor

Dan Zenner, Ph. D.

Washington State University Performance and Ethics Instructor

Self Employed

Matt Hellman, M.S.

 

 

 

 

 

Errin Reese, M.S.

Sport Marketing Coordinator

Parker, Colorado

Nathan Jerke

 

Sports Reporter

Blackfoot, ID Newspaper

 

Shu-Tung Lai/Dexter

Taiwan

 

Amekula Gwebu, Ph. D.

Cheryl Weiss, Ph. D.

 

 

 

For a list of Dr. Stoll's former students and their dissertations, click here.