Tuesday's events include:
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Time: 9–10 a.m.
Location: Zoom
This event will explore the ethical questions surfaced by the open access and open science movements, including the ways that advocates' goals of creating greater equity in scholarly and scientific communication have been undermined by recent developments in corporate publishers' business models. We'll present a range of developing alternatives to corporate-owned publishing models and think with attendees about their concerns about working in the open.
Time: 10–11:15 a.m.
Location: TBD
Belonging has become a central focus in university initiatives and conversations about community wellbeing, mental health, and student experience. But promising belonging in systems that still create exclusion raises complex ethical questions. This session explores belonging not as a branding message, but as an ethical practice grounded in responsibility, recognition, and repair. Drawing from multicultural clinical ethics, community care, and experience shaping campus mental health and wellbeing initiatives, the speaker will examine how harm arises when belonging is promised but not fully realized, and how intentional connection and ensuring people feel they matter can transform rhetoric into meaningful, relational practice. Participants will reflect on how to create spaces where students, staff, and faculty feel seen, valued, and supported, and how ethical leadership can foster cultures where belonging, connection, and mattering are not just ideals, but actionable commitments.
Time: 10:30–12 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Conflict is often approached as something to resolve quickly, yet it can also raise meaningful ethical questions about how we show up for one another and how we contribute to the wellbeing of our community. In this session, we will look at conflict through an ethical lens and consider how our responses reflect what we value and how we understand our responsibilities to others. Moments of tension can draw attention to experiences that have been overlooked, highlight places where care has been missing, or reveal gaps in how we support one another. By exploring these dynamics, the session invites a more intentional way of engaging conflict that supports stronger relationships and a more connected campus community.
Time: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar
This session will involve a panel discussion. Panelists will include academics and practitioners from the advertising industry. The discussion will cover ethical issues facing the industry (e.g. data privacy, ethics of influencer marketing, ethics of AI-use in the advertising industry, greenwashing). The panel discussion will involve interactive Q&A and will be followed by a brief discussion of resources and teaching tools offered by the Institute for Advertising Ethics. A representative of the Institute for Advertising Ethics will moderate the session.
Time: 12–1 p.m.
Location: Multipurpose Room, Minskoff Pavillion
Join PwC Detroit Tax Partner, Pat Mahoney, to learn more about the importance of ethics in a career in accounting. He'll discuss CPA ethics requirements, independence considerations, and the different types of conflicts of interests that accountants can face today. Pat is an MSU Alum, and this will be an engaging and lively conversation about current ethical dilemmas and considerations. Join us from 12–1 p.m. on Tuesday, February 17th!
This event is sponsored by PwC.