Executive helps businesses regain trust Nov 20, 2009
While the institution of business has been damaged, Allen said she believes a long-term crisis can be avoided if businesses recognize the returns that can be garnered by developing an ethical culture within their organizations. "It's up to business leaders to help people make the choice to do the right thing," she said. (AZCentral -- Business)
Its OK to touch the art in local authors books Oct 30, 2009
When Appel visited her daughter s kindergarten teacher, Guglielmo, at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City, Guglielmo explained to Appel that she taught her students about artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack and many others. Appel said that after her daughter moved on to first grade, she approached Guglielmo about putting her curriculum on television and together they shot a homemade pilot called Artopia. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Malcolm Gladwell and his imitators can rest easy Oct 24, 2009
If you're someone who was sent to the Ethical Culture School, then you aren't going to be intimidated by a row of Cambridge dons arrayed in judgment against you. " (Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, whose Oppenheimer biography is Gladwell's main source, might quarrel with such an account, and attribute more of Oppenheimer's indefatigability to internal resolve.) Much of the remainder of Outliers is taken up with more and less believable explanations of how social networks affect individuals, but... (Harper's Magazine)
V&V Q&A: Dr. Charles Hull Wolfe, a 20th Century Life Oct 23, 2009
Dr. Paul Kengor : V Dr. Charles Hull Wolfe, a 20th Century Life - Townhall. Columns, funnies in your inbox. (Townhall.com)
Sex With Your Boss? Affairs with Co-workers? Why That's Unethical (But Not Everyone Agrees), According to Biennial ERC National Workplace Survey Oct 14, 2009
For 87 years ERC has been a resource for institutions committed to a strong ethical culture. ERC's expertise also informs the public dialogue on ethics and ethical behavior. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Letterman didn't violate his company's harassment policy Oct 9, 2009
And the overall ethical culture of a firm can be at risk, Ms. Harned says. If employees perceive slip-ups in one area, they may feel it's OK to cut corners in other areas. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Joan Goody, 73, noted architect, cultural leader in Boston Sep 13, 2009
She always credited her years at New York s Ethical Culture School with fostering self-confidence and creativity. At Cornell, she was a history major who graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. (Boston Globe)
Ethical Society moves to Harvard Square Sep 11, 2009
The society began in 1876 when Felix Adler and a group of friends formed the Society for Ethical Culture. This activist group believed that a person s deeds, rather than religious beliefs, are the essence of a religious life. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
WORTH THE COST Aug 23, 2009
The supervised-visitation program for offenders, a project of an affiliate of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, has been a beneficiary of the competent and well-informed support of the center and knows it to be a fine organization ... Dr. Joseph Chuman, Leader, New York Society for Ethical Culture, Manhattan. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Dr. Freda Rebelsky, 78, activist and gifted teacher at BU Aug 14, 2009
During childhood in New York, she attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City before heading to Chicago, where she worked with children with autism and mental illnesses after that first course with Bettelheim. While finishing a master s degree in psychology at the University of Chicago, she met William Rebelsky. (Boston Globe)
With no-fail system for state worker test, everyone's got ethics Aug 13, 2009
Either way, the no-fail quiz highlights state government's troubled ethical culture. Legislators have long been criticized for using an Ethics Commission that is little more than an extension of the legislative branch. (Albany Times Union)
Private schools in the recession: Staying on board Jul 3, 2009
COMPARED with last year, applications are up 14%, says Mark Stanek, the principal of Ethical Culture Fieldston, a private school in New York. All through the application season he and his board of governors had been on tenterhooks, waiting to see if financial turmoil would cut the number of parents prepared to pay $32,000-34,000 a year to educate a child. (The Economist)
John H. Vogel; executive shared his banking expertise Jun 27, 2009
A memorial service will be held at the Westchester Ethical Culture Society, in White Plains, N.Y., today from 1 to 3 p.m. Local services have been held. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Carroll: Business grads pledge faces ethical pressure Jun 21, 2009
Only time will tell, but the major challenge the oath takers will face will be the ongoing business climate they encounter and the ethical culture of the organizations that employ them. If the pressures to cut corners and achieve results at any costs continue, the new graduates will face the major test of their new careers. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Bay State's low standards Jun 16, 2009
that "the political and ethical culture on Beacon Hill has reached its lowest point in decades" and that Massachusetts "residents are in no mood to give much respect to those who work on Beacon Hill." One state representative, , says he is "in shock" to find drivers on the highway giving him the finger. Far from being shocked, however, other legislators simply shrug off the public's ire. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Expert: Go slower on state ethics overhaul Jun 3, 2009
Albany Law School Professor Patricia Salkin said the Legislature should create a blue-ribbon panel to devise laws and a new regulating board that will finally fix Albany's ethical culture that has resulted in a series of scandals. She says past reform efforts -- she cited a half-dozen since 1954 -- have been rushed to law and most ultimately did little. (Albany Times Union)
Passover, Easter offer storytelling canvas for art Apr 9, 2009
" Hundreds of filmmakers, actors, dancers and writers who worship with Redeemer attend once-a-month programs for various artistic professions. The church sponsors art shows, concerts and a literary magazine. A dance performance is planned later this month. And actors, including Max McLean, who is the voice of the Bible recording at Biblegateway.com, do the Scripture readings. McLean also is doing a reading of the Gospel of Mark this evening at the Ethical Culture Society, a Redeemer worship... (USA Today)
Taking time to learn about a company's ethical standards can pay off Mar 10, 2009
"Building an enterprise-wide ethical culture reduces misconduct by as much as 75 percent," says Dr. Patricia J. Harned, president of the Ethics Resource Center in Arlington, Va ... When you're in an interview try to get a general sense of a company's ethical culture, how things get done and who gets rewarded. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone? Mar 9, 2009
In some ways, they've picked up the torch of the folk era as far as artistic and ethical culture, mode of distribution, authors' perspective, etc. There was a huge amount of this in the past (The Dead Kennedy's, the Clash, Crass, and Earth Crisis to name a few) but for a band dealing with foreign policy issues today. (Slate)
Modern Humanism Mar 7, 2009
Creating a Shared Non-Theistic Worldview for all Humankind. Humanistic views have been present in both theistic and atheist philosophies since the very beginnings of human understanding. (Suite101.com)
