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Association of Religions Counselors
The Association of Religious Counselors (ARC) is an independent association of representatives from religious and spiritual communities that serve the students, staff, and faculty of the University of Michigan. ARC advocates for the religious, spiritual, and ethical dimensions of university life and facilitates communication and cooperation between its members and the University of Michigan.

The Ginsberg Center
Through its programs, initiatives and publications, the Ginsberg Center strives to engage students, faculty members, university staff, and community partners in a process which combines community service and academic learning in order to promote civic participation, build community capacity, and enhance the educational process.

Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute
Create opportunities and encourage collaboration among science, policy, engineering, and business faculty to extend the knowledge of, and offer solutions to, complex environmental sustainability issues - recognizing the need for balance between societal needs and social responsibilities.

Human Rights Through Education (Student Organization)
For the promotion of comprehensive human rights instruction at the University of Michigan and at all levels of edification, to educate the advocates of the future and to support the advocates of the present through building curriculum, networking and empowering student social advocacy initiatives, expanding resources, and providing a purposefully broad interpretation of human rights studies its integral position in liberal arts education.

International Perspectives on Human Rights
International Perspectives on Human Rights (organized by CICS and the Institute for the Humanities) promotes reflection, debate, and scholarship in the vast and controversial field of human rights.

MChange
The MChange website serves as a forum to highlight opportunities for students at U-M that involve social justice education and action reflecting the principles and values of the Division of Student Affairs. These opportunities include those offered by the sponsoring offices as well as numerous activities organized and funded by student groups and student communities.

MLK Symposium
Every year, faculty, students, staff, academic units, departments, and community members develop programs and initiatives to continue and remember the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition to events that focus on historical authenticity and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, programs highlight historical and contemporary issues of race, class, social justice, diversity, and societal change.

Office of Multicultural Initiatives
The Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) is dedicated to supporting the University of Michigan in its ongoing commitment to create and foster an intellectually and culturally diverse campus community. To this end, OAMI works collaboratively and cooperatively with the campus and external constituencies to develop initiatives that enrich the academic, social, cultural, and personal development of students. The primary commitment of OAMI is to serve students, and is implemented through a variety of programs, research, and strategic planning.

The Office of Public Affairs and Media Relations: “Key Issues”
The Office provides background information on topics of current and continuing interest to members of the University community, alumni, the general public and the media. The information is updated regularly.

Roosevelt Institution (Student Organization)
The University of Michigan Roosevelt Institution seeks to redefine the image and role of students in the public policy arena through positive activism that promotes the innovation of concrete solutions to combat the problems and injustices in our world.

Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (Student Group)

The Wallenberg Endowment
The Wallenberg Endowment honors the life and work of Raoul Wallenberg, a 1935 graduate of the University of Michigan whose courage and leadership helped at least 20,000 Jews escape Nazi death camps. Each year the Endowment presents a Medal to a person whose life exemplifies the virtues of Raoul Wallenberg and that person delivers the Wallenberg Lecture, to which the public is invited.

College of Literature Science & the Arts (LSA)

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan
For over a century the Department of Philosophy at Michigan has been renowned for its ethics faculty, which has included in luminaries such as John Dewey, Charles Stevenson, William Frankena, and Richard Brandt Current faculty with scholarly interests in ethics include Peter Railton, Allan Gibbard, Elizabeth Anderson, Sarah Buss, and Stephen Darwall (who is leaving the University to take a position at Yale, but whose quarter century of outstanding scholarship and academic leadership at Michigan leaves us reluctant to drop his name from this list just yet).

Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan
The institute’s mission is to serve as a national and international centerpiece for scholarly research in the humanities and creative work in the arts at the University of Michigan. It exists to deepen synergies between the humanities, the arts and other regions of the university, to carry forward the heritage of the humanities, and to bring the voices of the humanities to public life.

The Program on Intergroup Relations
IGR works proactively to promote understanding of intergroup relations inside and outside of the classroom. Multidisciplinary courses offered by IGR are distinguished by their experiential focus, teaching philosophy, and incorporation of dialogical models of communication. On its site, one will find information on academic and co-curricular initiatives, program history and philosophy, and resources related to social justice education.

Residential College Minor in Peace and Social Justice

Residential College Minor in Science, Technology, and Society

U-M Initiative on Disability Studies
The goal of UMInDS is to establish a degree-granting program that will advance knowledge about, by, and for people with disabilities and to promote their full and equal participation in society. The first stages of the initiative propose a number of resources for the university community and the community at large.

Engineering

Exploring Ethical Decision-Making in Engineering (E3)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The National Poverty Center
The National Poverty Center is charged with promoting high-quality research on the causes and consequences of poverty, evaluating and analyzing policies to alleviate poverty, and training the next generation of poverty researchers.

Science, Technology, & Public Policy
In response to increasing demand for experts in the politics and processes of science and technology policymaking as well as a need for sustained intellectual engagement on these issues, the Ford School’s STPP program will enhance existing scholarly and educational attention to two areas. It will first explore how scientific evidence and technological development are used to develop public policy, or “science and technology for policy”; and, second, it will examine policies directly shaping scientific and technological development, or “policy for science and technology”.

Ross School of Business

Net Impact (Student Organization)

William Davidson Institute
The Davidson Institute's educational and research programs develop knowledge and capability that helps improve the effectiveness of firms and social welfare in emerging market economies.

Goals:

Research:

To develop knowledge and expertise on the critical issues affecting business enterprise and public policies in transition and emerging market economies.

Education:

To disseminate knowledge about transition and emerging market economies, and to provide individuals with the skills needed to compete effectively in a global marketplace.

Service:

To provide actionable insights and contributions to firms and policy makers in transition and emerging market economies.

School of Education

National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good
The National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good will significantly increase awareness, understanding, commitment, and action relative to the public service role of higher education in the United States.

School of Medicine

Bioethics Program
The Bioethics Program promotes research and education concerning theoretical, empirical, and critical approaches to ethical issues in health care and the life sciences.

Ethics and Humanities Links — a resource page

School of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Ross School of Business

Frederick A. & Barbara M. Erb Institute
The Erb Institute mission is to be the premier source of knowledge and leadership for the achievement of environmentally, economically and socially sustainable development and enterprise. To this end, the Institute fosters professional education, public outreach and scientific scholarship supportive of the transition to sustainability—that is, meeting the fundamental needs of a growing human population in an equitable manner within the means of nature.

School of Public Health

Center for Law, Ethics, and Health
The University of Michigan Center for Law, Ethics, and Health (CLEH) is an interdisciplinary research center established to examine the law’s influence on the nation’s two health systems: the health care delivery system, which is concerned with individual health outcomes; and the public health system, which is designed to protect the health of communities. Both systems are based on a broad foundation of legal principles.

Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health
The Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health (CRECH) was established in 1998 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH) to lead the School's response to dramatic changes in the racial and ethnic composition of the United States. CRECH develops new approaches to research and research training relevant to the description and understanding of racial and ethnic health disparities. CRECH prepares students to address the public health needs of an increasingly diverse society by providing a forum for basic and applied research on racial and ethnic differences in health across all departments within the UMSPH.

Life Sciences & Society
The purpose of Life Sciences & Society (LSS) is to promote education, research, and community engagement on issues that arise from the ethical and social ramifications of the life sciences. The goal of LSS is to ensure that advances in the life sciences are applied responsibly to benefit the public's health and well being.

Michigan Center for Public Health & Community Genomics
The mission of the Center for Public Health and Community Genomics is to promote the integration of genomic discoveries into public health practice in furtherance of the public health goals of improving health and reducing and eliminating health disparities. The Center emphasizes the ethical, legal, and social issues associated with the application of genomics and public health and the importance of engaging the community at large in the development and implementation of public health genetics programs.

Michigan Initiative on Inequalities in Health
The initiative’s mission is to promote inquiry into the causes and consequences of societal inequalities in health and potential remedies, via an interdisciplinary program of discussion, research and teaching. Its goal is to catalyze intellectual interchange, research and teaching focused on issues raised by the study of inequalities in health through a program of in-depth discussion, lectures and symposia, and ongoing Forum on in Inequalities in Health, small grants and student stipends.