2021 Faculty Stipend Recipients Announced

Published April 12, 2021
By Janey Roeder

Ethics Across the Curriculum and Research Stipend Awards to CSULB Faculty

The Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership at California State University, Long Beach is providing students from academic majors as diverse as art, social work, geography, teacher education, and information systems with essential ethical decision-making tools before entering the workforce. To advance its vision of having an ethics module in every CSULB course, the highest number of Ethics Across the Curriculum stipends were awarded since the program was initiated in 2005. Nineteen $3,000 stipends were granted to faculty for integrating three-hour ethics modules into their courses. This year’s program also extended the Ukleja Center’s reach into all seven colleges, thereby furthering the center’s interdisciplinary aim. In addition, the center awarded two $5,000 faculty stipends for original ethics research. Prior stipend recipients served on the two proposal review and selection committees chaired by Danny Paskin and Gwen Shaffer.

Faculty members receiving 2020-2021 pedagogical stipends are:

  •  Rhiannon Aarons – Gentrification and Environmental Justice in the Art Economy (Art)
  • Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson – Intersectional Feminist Ethics (Sociology)
  • Pitiporn Asvapathanagul – Ethics for Civil Engineering and Construction Management Professions (Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management)
  • Andrew Fogleman – The Ethical Dilemma of Misinformation (History)
  • Noah Golden – Digital Ethics through Critical Literacy and STEM Education (Teacher Education)
  • Min Gu – Ethics of Care and Advocacy for Children’s Voice in Elementary Art Classrooms (Liberal Studies)
  • Lisa Ibanez and Susan Salas – So, You Want to Connect? The Ethics of Social Media and Virtual Workplace in Social Work Practice (Social Work)
  • Connie Ireland – Service Learning through Social Justice in Corrections (Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management)
  • Brian Katz – Ethics of Epistemology in Mathematics for Secondary Teachers (Mathematics and Statistics)
  • Yu-Fu Ko – Engineering Ethics in Civil Engineering Practical Design Projects (Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management)
  • Linna Li and Christine Jocoy – How Not to Lie with Maps: Ethics in Geospatial Science and Technologies (Geography)
  • Crystal Lie – Integrating Disability Bioethics into the Health Humanities (Comparative World Literature)
  • Ying Liu – Programmers Need Ethics (Information Systems)
  • Stephen Mezyk – Ethics in the CHEM373 Laboratory – What is Scientific Plagiarism? (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  • Hugh O’Gorman – The Ethics of Privilege, Place and Personhood: The Auto-Drama Solo Performance (Theatre Arts)
  • Ulices Pina – Human Rights and Ethical Progress in Historical Perspective (History)
  • Elizabeth Pringle-Hornsby and Anna Mayer – The Ethics of Working with Children and Families in Child Welfare Practice and the Use of Social Media (Social Work)
  • Amy Ricketts – Toward More Equitable Science Teaching Practices (Science Education)
  • Shira Tarrant – Ethics and Free Speech: Engaging Controversy Through Dialogue (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

This year’s ethics research stipend recipients are:

  • Youngok Jung – Cheating and Ethics in Junior Tennis: Why Do Junior Tennis Players Cheat? (Family and Consumer Sciences – Child Development and Family Studies)
  • Leilani Madrigal – A Six-Session Pilot Intervention to Address Racism in Sport and Empower Athlete Activism (Kinesiology – Sport and Exercise Psychology)

Over 150 Ethics Across the Curriculum and Faculty, Ethics Research stipends have been granted by the Ukleja Center since 2005. All CSULB colleges and disciplines are invited to participate and lecturers, as well as tenured faculty, are encouraged to apply. The next application deadline is March 1, 2022.

The Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership offers training to enhance the integration of ethics in everything we do. It focuses on a three-pronged approach to applied ethics – education, university research, and community engagement – to equip people with the transformational power of ethical leadership.

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Contact:           Janey Roeder, Director