Americans Do Not Trust Established Institutions According to Gallup and Pew Gallup published its 2023 results of a survey of honesty/ethics in the professions last year. The results speak volumes about which professions are trusted by most Americans. The most ethical profession is nurses with a 78% positive rating—high or very high in ethics. While this […]
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Trump Removes Top Government Ethics Official By now you have likely heard that President Trump removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) from his post in one of many executive orders issued since he took office just three weeks ago. The agency’s director, David Huitema, was confirmed to the post by the
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Examining Microaggressions as a Form of DEI A psychological concept that has become a part of the discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is microaggressions. The term gained widespread appeal only twelve years ago, but by 2015 it had been crowned the word of the year by the Global Language Monitor. It is now rife on
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Can We Save Society from Rampant Incivility? By age sixteen, George Washington had copied out by hand, 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation. They are based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first rule is: “Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of
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Why We Have Lost Our Way as a Moral Society I’ve never seen the level of divisiveness in America as I have for the past decade. While I have blogged about the decline of civility in America before, nothing has changed, and it has gotten much worse, so I decided to revisit the issue. Incivility has been
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Can Anything Be Done to Stem the Rising Tide of Gun Violence? It is alarming how so many senseless murders have occurred in the U.S. just in 2022. The country returned to its earlier days when the idea of the Wild West ruled the day. The Wild West was so named for the lawlessness of the
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How can it be that three of the big four CPA firms were caught cheating on external and internal ethics and continuing professional education (CPE) courses, given that their role as auditors is to protect the public interest and the capital markets that rely on audited financial statements? My blog today explains what happened and
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Teaching Ethics to College Students Do you teach ethics to your college students as I do? If so, how do you avoid teaching ethics without students feeling like you are trying to convert them to one set of beliefs or another? These are important issues for us as educators. Personally, I set a goal to
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