Core Commitments:
Educating Students for Personal and Social
Responsibility
2007 UCF FCTL Summer Faculty Development
Conference
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Dr. John Burris, Visiting Instructor, Religious Studies
Dr. Manoj Chopra, Professor, Engineering
Dr. Annabelle Conroy, Assistant Professor, Political
Science
Dr. Ronnie Hawkins, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Dr. Dawn Oetjen, Associate Professor, Health
Professions
Nancy Stanlick, Associate Professor, Philosophy
UCF Core Commitments Faculty
Development Conference, Summer 2007
at the UCF Karen L. Smith Faculty Center
for Teaching and Learning
Faculty development included the incorporation
of Core Commitments content into selected
courses at UCF. The following pages show
the 5 dimensions and each course’s contentspecific application.
Core Commitments (AAC&U Statement)
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Striving for excellence: Strong work ethic and consciously doing one’s
very best in all aspects of college
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Cultivating personal and academic integrity: Sense of honor ranging
from honesty in relationships to principled engagement with a formal
academic honors code
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Contributing to a larger community: Responsibility to the educational
community (classroom, campus life), the local community, and the wider
society, both national and global
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Taking seriously the perspectives of others: Obligation to inform one’s
own judgment; engaging diverse and competing perspectives as a resource
for learning, for citizenship, and for work
Developing competence in ethical and moral reasoning: Ethical and
moral reasoning in ways that incorporate the other four responsibilities;
using such reasoning in learning and in life.
Core Commitments
John Burris, World Religions (REL 2300)
CORE COMMITMENTS
IN WORLD RELIGIONS
Striving for Excellence
Distinguishing studying religion
from practicing it
Cultivating Personal and Academic Seeing the value of others’
Integrity
religious commitments
Contributing to a Larger
Community
Recognizing we live in religious
and cultural communities
Taking Seriously the Perspectives
of Others
Acknowledging the fact of religious
diversity
Developing Competence in Ethical Understanding why all people
Reasoning
have a right to their religion
Core Commitments
Manoj Chopra, EGN 3310 – Engineering
Mechanics Statics, Ethics in Engineering
Core Commitments
Engineering Context
Striving for excellence
Effort, Perseverance, Technical
Education
Personal and Academic
Integrity
Professional Honor Code,
Academic Creed
Contribution to Larger
Community
Teamwork, Service to
Profession, Quality of Life
Perspectives of Others
Fair and Open Minded
Evaluation of Sources
Ethical and Moral Reasoning
Critical and Ethical Evaluation
of Alternatives
Core Commitments
Annabelle Conroy
INR 4075 Human Rights Policy
Striving for excellence
Working consistently throughout the term to develop
the modules’ through the blogs help others who are
having difficulties with assignments
Cultivating personal and academic
integrity
Properly acknowledging the ideas/work of others;
carefully documenting each case under study
Contributing to a larger community
Developing research, policy recommendations and
campaign strategies that take into account the needs,
values and beliefs of the target population
Taking seriously the perspectives of
others
Exchanging views with different populations
(academic, non-academic) by means of blogs
attached to class wikis
Developing competence in ethical and
moral reasoning
Supporting research findings with accurate data, but
recognizing the ethical implications of the findings
and policy recommendations
Dawn Oetjen, Dept. of Health Professions,
“Facing” Ethical Dilemmas through the use of
an Ethics Committee Role-Play Assignment
Core Commitment
Striving for Excellence
My Context
ACHE Code of Ethics
Cultivating Personal and Academic Use of decision-making
Integrity
framework/applications
Contributing to a Larger
Community
Teamwork; Professional
knowledge enhancement
Perspectives of Others
Respect; Fairness; Distributive
justice; Multidisciplinary/Diverse
Cultures
Ethical and Moral Reasoning
Critical and ethical evaluation of
alternatives
Core Commitments
Nancy Stanlick, Formal Logic I (PHI 2100)
Core Commitment
Formal Logic I
Striving for excellence
Developing skills in methods
and principles of deductive
logic
Personal and Academic
Integrity
Dedication to the ethical use of
human reason
Contribution to Larger
Community
To mediate differences and find
solutions
Perspectives of Others
Critical appraisal; respect for
differences
Moral Reasoning
Application to practical issues