With the support of our donors, the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has had four productive years of operations. Two years ago we won a Templeton Freedom Award from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation for our original course development. Since then we have significantly increased our outreach to students through campus activities and online resources.
In addition to continuing our regular programs, we have several new initiatives for this coming year:
* I have two current book projects. CEE funding enables release time for me for writing. I am also pursuing grants to enable me to take a leave of absence from my teaching duties to complete those books.
* Shawn Klein is launching an interdisciplinary Sports Studies program. Sports require excellent mind-body development and are a vehicle for character-building. Sports are also big business and the focus of much economic and political debate. Over half of our students at Rockford College are athletes. So we see a good opportunity to reach a large number of students.
* Translation projects. My Explaining Postmodernism was published in Portuguese in Brazil this year and several of my articles have been translated by others into German, Spanish, Korean, and Serbo-Croat. We plan to take the initiative in commissioning translations of scholarly works.
* Last year we videoed and put online my entire Philosophy of Education course—over 50 hours of lectures. In 2012, we will do the same for my Business and Economic Ethics course.
* We will be rolling out a new Profiles in Liberty series of video interviews, featuring extended discussions with Douglas Rasmussen, David R. Henderson, Tibor Machan, and Douglas Den Uyl. Future interviewees include David Kelley, Eric Mack, and other prominent classical liberal intellectuals.
Here are links to our Accomplishments [PDF] to date, our latest Kaizen [PDF], and a donation envelope [PDF].
I hope you will consider supporting CEE through a donation that will make our fifth year of operation the most productive yet. You can either donate through the PayPal link on the left or you can donate through the mail:
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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Rockford College
5050 E. State St.
Rockford, IL 61108
Please feel welcome to phone me at (815) 394-5181 at your convenience—I’ll be happy to talk with you further about CEE’s plans and to provide any more information.
All the very best for the holiday season,
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Executive Director, Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Email: SHicks [at] Rockford.edu
WEB: www.StephenHicks.org
www.EthicsandEntrepreneurship.org
