The day-to-day operations and overall responsibility for the Centre for Practical Ethics is vested with a director who reports, and is accountable, to the senior university executive officer in charge of research centres. Within the organization of the research unit the Director functions as Chair of both a Board of Directors and an Executive Council. The Board reviews and approves general policy for the Centre, meeting at least twice each academic year (once in the fall term and once in the winter term). Presently members of the Board are appointed for renewable three-year terms.
The Executive Council of the Centre for Practical Ethics is a sub-committee of the Board. It is responsible for reviewing, and advising on, routine administration of the Centre and for implementing the general policies of the Board. The Council meets at least twice each academic year, once in the fall term and once in the winter term. Presently members of the Executive Council are appointed for three-year terms, renewable at the discretion of the Board.
The Centre also includes affiliated members which lend support to the preparation and implementation of projects and assist with day-to-day operations.
Director
Professor Susan Dimock has been a member of York’s faculty since 1991, and is an expert in moral and political philosophy, and philosophy of law. She has been a member of the Centre’s Executive and Board of Directors since 1999. As the Centre’s Director, Professor Dimock intends to forge new alliances with other ORUs at York, adding the expertise in ethics of the Centre’s members to many of the innovative research initiatives being organized elsewhere at York. She also plans to expand the Centre’s consulting service and to provide outreach to the broader community through a revitalized and practically oriented web site.
One of the first projects that will be undertaken under Professor Dimock’s leadership of the Centre is a major international conference in April 2009 on the topic of Values in an Age of Multiculturalism. The conference will be held in conjunction with the American Society of Value Inquiry, and will bring hundreds of the world’s leading academics to York to discuss contemporary challenges of and opportunities provided by multiculturalism. The focus on multiculturalism will be a major locus of activity over the coming years, with both academic and community outreach components.
Professor Dimock brings a wide variety of senior academic administrative experience to her new position. She has been, for example, the President of the York University Faculty Association, Chair of Faculty of Arts Council, and a long time Senator. She also brings an impressive research record, as editor of numerous books and author of a number of scholarly articles in national and international academic journals.
Executive Council
Wesley Cragg
Susan Dimock
Ian Greene
Shirley Katz
Patricia Kazan
David Shugarman
David Wiesenthal
Board of Directors
Howard Adelman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, York University
David Bell
Wesley Cragg
Andrew Crane,
Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics, Schulich School of Business
Susan Dimock
Jerry Ginsburg
Ian Greene
Shirley Katz
Patricia Kazan
Greg Levine
Robert MacDermid
Greg Malszecki
Roxanne Mykitiuk
Ron Pearlman
Peter Penz
David Shugarman
Stan Tweyman
Duff Waring
Walter J. Whiteley
David Wiesenthal
Tom Wilson
Affiliated Members
Nergis Canefe, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, York University
Raymond W. Cox III,
Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, University of Akron
Danny O'Rourke-Dicarlo, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, York University
Natalie Oman, Adjunct Professor, D.Jur. candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University |
