Center For Professional Ethics

Vision

The Center for Professional Ethics envisions a beloved learning community that participates in a discipline of dialogue regarding the meaning of freedom and the good to demonstrate respect for the dignity of the human person and for institutions that reflect justice and care for our common home and one another.

Mission

The Center for Professional Ethics convenes the thought and executive leadership of the Marymount University learning community through research, education, advocacy, and advisory services for impactful responses to questions of professional ethics, organizational integrity and responsibility, principled leadership, integral ecology, and global social justice.

Key Stakeholders, Strategic Imperatives, and Core Services

Core Competencies

I. Professional ethics

Vocational discernment, disciplinary development and formation, and service to clients and the public within a concessionary regulatory framework, e.g., engineering, accounting, law, healthcare, journalism, and public service.

II. Organizational integrity and responsibility

Developing and evaluating public and private institutions amid converging global governance frameworks to balance private interests and the common good, including ethics and compliance, resource and operational transparency, fraud risk management, beneficial ownership transparency, benefit corporations, and corporate citizenship.

III. Principled leadership

Developing and practicing the art of influencing oneself and others to realize productive results in principled ways, including reflection and discussion (thought leadership) and impactful practical expression of this in one’s work (executive leadership).

IV. Integral ecology

The intersection of society and nature to optimize resources for effective, scalable, and sustainable flourishing of our world and for principled responses to the climate crisis through mitigation, adaptation, and intervention.

V. Global social justice

Duties and opportunities to participate in social, economic, legal, political, and technological systems, structures, and processes, e.g., education of girls and empowerment of women; access to healthcare; artificial intelligence and cyberethics; biomedical ethics; accountable democracy, citizenship, and the rule of law; conflict resolution; fighting corruption, including kleptocracies, secrecy jurisdictions, systemic tax evasion, money laundering, and transfer mispricing; curtailing trafficking in persons, weapons, and illicit drugs; reducing extreme disparities in wealth; and responding to the care crisis for children, the elderly, and other vulnerable groups.

Marymount University is grateful for the gift of $250,000 from the Soloviev Foundation, and to its chief executive, Marymount trustee and ethics and compliance leader, Michael Hershman, to inspire and support this work.