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VOLUME X, NO. 4, APRIL 2009
FROM THE EDITORS
WHO BAILS OUT OUR MORAL BANKRUPTCY?
Jon C. Dalton, Florida State University
Pamela C. Crosby, Florida State University
The current economic crisis raises many ethical questions about the moral motivations and behaviors of people caught up in the unbridled financial markets of the past decade. Read more at CRISIS
INVITED ARTICLES
THE PRINCIPLES OF STRENGTHS-BASED EDUCATION
Shane J. Lopez, Clifton Strengths Institute/Gallup
Michelle C. Louis, Bethel University/Noel Strengths Academy
Educators who capitalize on their strengths daily help students do what they do best by developing a strengths-based approach to education. The principles of strengths-based education include measurement, individualization, networking, deliberate application, and intentional development. Read the article at STRENGTHS-BASED
CHARACTER STRENGTHS: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Nansook Park, University of Rhode Island
Christopher Peterson, University of Michigan
This article discusses ways to recognize and cultivate character strengths within the context of a strengths-based approach to education and personal development. Character matters, and cultivating its components should be an important goal for all. Read the article at CHARACTER STRENGTHS
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
RADICAL ETHICAL COMMITMENTS ON CAMPUS: RESULTS OF INTERVIEWS WITH COLLEGE-AGED VEGETARIANS
Ben Merriman, University of Chicago
Sarah Wilson-Merriman, University Center Chicago
This study examined the ethical development and commitments of campus radicals, drawing from extended, semi-structured interviews with 22 ethical vegetarian students at a large public university. Read the article at RADICAL
PERCEPTIONS OF VALUES AT A PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
Cheryl Brown Lilly, Florida State University Robert Schwartz, Florida State University
The purpose of this study was to explore student perceptions of institutional values at a public research extensive institution. Read the article at PERCEPTIONS
OPINIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
THE FRAGMENTED GENERATION
Scott Seider, Boston University
Howard Gardner, Harvard University
The authors consider how the historical and technological contexts in which young people have come of age have contributed to the generation's fragmented nature. Wikipedia, the open source encyclopedia, provides a metaphor for considering the characteristics of young Americans in comparison to those of previous generations. Read the article at GENERATION
COLLEGE AND CHARACTER: WHAT DID CONFUCIUS TEACH US ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATING ETHICS, CHARACTER, LEARNING, AND EDUCATION?
Rita Mei-Ching Ng, Ohio University, Zanesville
For America to have a sustainable future,those of us working in higher education must do more to promote and support the development of ethical values in our students. Read the article at CONFUCIUS
REGULAR FEATURES
ETHICAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
David M. Eberhardt, Jr., Contributing Editor, Birmingham-Southern College
WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING TO REDUCE OR END CAMPUS VIOLENCE?
Jason A. Laker, Queen's University at Kingston-Canada
Over the last several years, there have been a number of high-profile incidents of violence on college and university campuses. These have precipitated discussions and new initiatives on campuses and within our professional organizations intended to prevent and respond to violence. Read the article at CAMPUS VIOLENCE
SPIRITUALITY ON CAMPUS
Alyssa N. Bryant, Contributing Editor, North Carolina State University
DEVELOPMENT OF A SPIRITUALLY-SENSITIVE INTERVENTION FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPERIENCING SPIRITUAL STRUGGLES: WINDING ROAD
Maria R. Gear, Bowling Green State University
Elizabeth J. Krumrei, Kansas State University
Kenneth I. Pargament, Bowling Green State University
A team of graduate students and a faculty member of clinical psychology interested in spiritually-sensitive psychotherapy conceived of and developed "Winding Road," which is an intervention that targets an underserved aspect of college students' lives: spiritual struggles. Read the article at CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
STUDENT REFLECTIONS
A THOUGHTFUL CALL FOR HIGHER MORAL STANDARDS, COURTESY OF PLAYBOY MAGAZINE
Amanda C. Weldy, Contributing Editor, University of California, Los Angeles
The author points to the wisdom of Jimmy Carter in recognizing that thoughts lead to action and his courage in saying so. Read the article at STANDARDS
WHAT THEY'RE READING
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES
Reviewed by Liesa Stamm, Contributing Editor, Rutgers University Camden
Civic Engagement in Higher Education is a timely publication because it focuses higher education's attention once more on a topic that many of us have long thought as central to the mission of American colleges and universities. Read the article at CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
BEST PRACTICES
UNIVERSITY FOR DIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY
Jeffery Pickens, St. Thomas University
Judith Bachay, St. Thomas University
Larry Treadwell, St. Thomas University
A study of a university diversity initiative that trained faculty to create and teach interdisciplinary "diversity courses" resulted in significant student gains on a pre-/post questionnaire assessing multicultural awareness and skills, as well as increased ethnic identity development as measured using the Multi Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM). Read the article at DIVERSITY
RESOURCES
JCC TO PUBLISH COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON POWERFUL LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS
A special "reader" issue of the Journal of College and Character on the topic of "Issues and Strategies in Promoting Powerful Learning Partnerships on Campus" will be published in August 2009. Authors of this collection of articles will examine the need for greater collaboration between student affairs and academic colleagues in promoting educational outcomes and discuss some of the challenges, opportunities, barriers, and controversies that such partnerships may involve. The reader issue will include articles by some of today's leading scholars of the learning paradigm movement including Richard Keeling, Marcia Baxter Magolda, Michale Coomes, Gwen Dungy, and the JCC editors, Jon Dalton and Pam Crosby. The reader is designed to be a collection suitable for use in the classroom, professional development programs, and discussion groups.
COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO WRITE FOR THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE AND CHARACTER'S "VOICES OF HOPE" PROJECT
The editors of the Journal of College and Character are seeking to identify college students from US and international colleges and universities to participate in the "Voices of Hope" project. The Voices of Hope project is an effort by the JCC to identify college students from the US and other countries to participate in writing short essays about the role that hope plays in their lives in these hard economic times. This project will focus on what college students hope for in difficult times, the role that transformative hope plays in their pursuits of personal goals in college and beyond, and the things that nurture hope for them in the college setting.
These "voices of hope" student narratives will be compiled into a book and also published as a special series in the Journal of College and Character during the 2010-2011 academic year. We are looking for 15 students to write essays by December, 2009. If you are a student who is interested in participating in this project or you know of students from your institution who may be interested, please complete or (have students complete)the application at VOICES and send to Pam Crosby and Jon Dalton, editors, at jcc@naspa.org. Note: we have set June 30, 2009, as a deadline for submission of the attached application. This is not a set deadline, but we encourage early submission.
CONFERENCE EXAMINES INTERSECTION OF FAITH, JUSTICE AND CIVIC LEARNING
The National Faith, Justice and Civic Learning Conference will be held at DePaul University in Chicago on June 25-27, 2009. Speakers will include Eboo Patel - Interfaith Youth Core; Vincent Rougeau - University of Notre Dame; Nicholas Wolterstorff - Yale University; Brenda Salter McNeil - Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC; Guillermo Campuzano - DePaul University; and Maureen F. Curley - Campus Compact. Conference registration and information can be found at www.nfjcl.org.
EVENTS For information about current and future events, meetings, and projects related to character development in college and moral and civic education in the context of higher education, go to EVENTS
ARCHIVES To see past JCC issues, go to ARCHIVES
PREVIEW To see a preview of the next issue, go to WHAT'S NEW
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE AND CHARACTER (JCC) invites papers that examine issues in the broad field of ethics, values, citizenship, and spirituality in the higher education setting. Deadline is ongoing. Send your manuscript as a Microsoft Word attachment to Pam Crosby, co-editor, at jcc@naspa.org. For more information, go to Manuscript Guidelines
BEST PRACTICES This section of our journal highlights efforts by faculty and staff to develop interventions that encourage character/moral development; for example, how an instructor utilizes a specific pedagogical approach to encourage learning. Papers submitted for "Best Practices" will be placed in editorial review process. Send your "Best Practices" paper to Pam Crosby, co-editor, at jcc@naspa.org and indicate that this manuscript is for the "Best Practices" section of the journal.
STUDENT REFLECTIONS College students: Share your opinions. For more information, go to STUDENT REFLECTIONS
Send papers to Amanda Weldy, Student Reflections Editor, at aweldy@ucla.edu
CONTACT INFORMATION EDITORS
Jon C. Dalton, Co-editor
Pamela C. Crosby, Co-editor
Susan Weir, Associate Editor
Karen S. Linstrum, Copy Editor
MAILING ADDRESS:
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CONTRIBUTORS
Alyssa Bryant, Spirituality on Campus Editor
alyssa_bryant@ncsu.edu
David M. Eberhardt, Ethical Issues on Campus Editor
HardeeC@coe.fsu.edu
Debora Liddell, New Scholars and Scholarship Editor
debora-liddell@uiowa.edu
Liesa Stamm, What They're Reading Editor
liesastamm@earthlink.net
Amanda Weldy, Student Reflections Editor
aweldy@ucla.edu
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