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CBA
ethical leadership center established
By
Starr T. Balmer
Online Forty-Niner
Staff Writer
The
first Center for Ethical Leadership makes
its way to Cal State Long Beach after receiving
a $2.5 million endowment for its upcoming
establishment in the College of Business
Administration.
The
College of Business Administration is the
first of many business schools in the California
State University system to establish this
type of center.
The
interdisciplinary center plans to better
educate students about the importance of
ethics and to teach how it should be applied
in businesses, as their mission stated that
"the Center for Ethical Leadership
will promote ethical leadership in our society
through community service, university research
and support of ethics across the curriculum."
The
center's vision is to be "the preeminent
center of thought about applied ethics in
leadership in business and the professions
among public comprehensive universities
in the Western United States."
Corporations
have core leaders who violate ethics, and
the center would give students the tools
to have and practice good ethics, said Mick
Uklejas, a continuing supporter of CSULB
who has donated a considerable portion of
the endowment to the center.
He
said he and his wife, Louise Ukleja have
also donated towards the Athletic Program
and President's Scholars Program.
Ukleja is a member of the Board of Governors
on campus as well as being the founder and
president of LeadershipTraQ, which encourages
leaders to learn and practice leadership
principles and productivity.
"The
Uklejas' support of the Center for Ethical
Leadership will not only impact our campus,
but will greatly enhance the public dialogue
of how ethics influences our lives on a
Online basis," CSULB President Robert
Maxson said in a press release.
Luis
Ma. R. Calingo, he dean of the College of
Business Administration, explained the importance
of ethics and why it should be applied in
business.
"Good
ethics is good business," he said.
"What is at issue here is no less than
the future of the American free market system,
which depends on honest and open enterprises
to survive and flourish."
"I
think it will be a great program,"
senior and MIS major Barry Dotson said.
"It would cut down on some of the corruption."
While
ethics is a major issue in business, senior
and marketing major Marisa Del Campo said
that ethics should be taught more in business
courses.
"There
is usually a quick overview; but it's an
ongoing theme," she said.
The
Center for Ethical Leadership will help
students learn how to be honest leaders
while running successful, ethical businesses.
It will also inform students that leaders'
ethical values influence business practices.
"They
need to understand that, even as first-line
supervisors, they will play a key ethical
role in the organization by influencing
the Online conduct of the people reporting
to them," Calingo said.
Not
only does the College of Business Administration
have access to the center, but other colleges
and students across campus, such as the
College of the Arts, College of Liberal
Arts, College of Engineering and the College
of Natural Science and Mathematics, will
also participate in the center's programs.
Within each college, professors will teach
about three hours of ethics throughout each
semester.
"We
would like to see an ethical component in
everything that is taught," Uklejas
said. He also said that professors will
participate in writing academic journals
and performing ethical research in relation
to their professions.
Additionally,
Calingo said the Board of Trustees will
agree on the requested name of the center
– the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership
– in March, and the center will be
up and running by July 1.
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