AT A GLANCE: NOV. 20

• Academic Senate workshop — “Creating a Culture of Excellence and Trustworthiness in Research Universities.” 8 a.m.-noon, MIND Institute auditorium, 2825 50th St., Sacramento.
• Provost’s Forum on the Public University and the Social Good — “Keeping Track of One’s Moral Compass Despite Pressures to Lose It: How a Public University Can Maintain Its Integrity,” Haavi Morreim, professor of human values and ethics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. 3-4:30 p.m. lecture, 4:30-5:30 p.m. reception, multipurpose room, Student Community Center.
• Live stream — Morreim’s lecture will be streamed to 1222 Education Building, Sacramento campus.

Provost’s Forums, 2014-15

A workshop and lecture are planned on Thursday, Nov. 20, on the topic of trust and integrity in academia.

The workshop, hosted by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Faculty Welfare, is being held in conjunction with another of the Provost’s Forums on the Public University and the Social Good.

Morreim

The forum speaker, Haavi Morreim, professor of human values and ethics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is participating in the morning workshop on the Sacramento campus, as a guest faculty member; and she will be the forum speaker in the afternoon on the Davis campus (with a live stream going back to the Sacramento campus).

Morreim’s topic: “Keeping Track of One’s Moral Compass Despite Pressures to Lose It: How a Public University Can Maintain Its Integrity.”

The workshop, “Creating a Culture of Excellence and Trustworthiness in Research Universities,” will comprise panel and audience discussions to explore methods and opportunities for promoting institutional changes that increase trust and integrity in research, according to the Academic Senate’s website.

The guest faculty members: Morreim; Elizabeth Popp Berman of the University at Albany, State University of New York; and Gail Geller of Johns Hopkins University.

UC Davis participants include: Craig Allison, director, Research Compliance and Integrity; Ralph J. Hexter, provost and executive vice chancellor; Cindy Kiel, executive associate vice chancellor, Office of Research; Andre Knoesen, chair, Academic Senate; Thomas S. Nesbitt, associate vice chancellor, Strategic Technologies and Alliances, UC Davis Health System; Mark Yarborough, Bioethics Program (session moderator); and Deborah Ward, associate dean for academics, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.

Workshop sponsors: Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, Davis Division of the Academic Senate, Offices of the Chancellor and Provost, and the School of Medicine.

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