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Feb 20 11:02 AM

Business Ethics Program Receives Boost from State Farm Insurance
State Farm Insurance gave a $15,000 grant to the CBA Business Ethics Program. The grant will help publish a business ethics booklet and create a code of ethics reference card for students. State Farm will also sponsor an ethics lecture in the fall.

Feb 10 10:02 AM

Student Ethics Code Launches for CBA Students
Wall Street, Fortune 500 Companies and businesses across the world continually discuss the importance of ethics in business. A group of CBA students decided to stop talking and start doing, writing a new student ethics code.

Feb 3 11:02 AM

Dr. Lawrence Interviewed on the Ethics of iPhones
Recent charges of mistreatment of workers who create and manufacture Apple products have led to ethics questions for iPhone users. Dr. Janice Lawrence, director of the business ethics program at CBA, was interviewed by Business News Daily regarding her views on the situation.

Dec 15 8:12 AM

Business Ethics are Focus for CBA Students
The Business Ethics program at the UNL College of Business Administration is ranked as the third strongest program in the Big Ten conference by Businessweek. The program is integrated into over 90 percent of business classes and visiting speakers are a large component of the program.

Dec 8 8:12 AM

Fraud Examination Students Learn Assessment Skills on Real World Project
College of Business Administration accountancy students who take the Fraud Examination class are learning exactly what it takes to prevent fraud. Dr. Janice Lawrence is helping students take on real world fraud risk assessment reviews of local non-profits that benefit both the community and the students.

Oct 7 8:10 AM

Business Ethics Program Brings Whistleblower Tour to Packed Student Audience
The College of Business Administration recently hosted a panel of prominent whistleblowers through the efforts of Dr. Janice Lawrence and the Business Ethics program. The panelists included Gary Aguirre, a former prosecutor for the SEC, who spent years of his life fighting corruption in the agency.

Oct 27 12:10 PM

Championing Business Ethics at the UNL College of Business
When students enroll in a course at the UNL College of Business they are usually signing up for an Ethics course whether they are aware of it or not. That is because ethics issues reach into over 90% of the courses currently being taught at the College. Janice Lawrence a professor at the School of Accountancy has been leading the efforts to integrate Ethics into the student experience for over ten years.

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Student Ethics Code Launches for CBA Students

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Emily Phillips, Tessa Bright, Dr. Janice Lawrence and Kaitlin Coziahr plan ethics code

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Mission
Upcoming Events
Instructional Resources
Activities
Quote of the Week

Resources

CONTACT

Lawrence, Janice E

Janice E Lawrence

Director of the Business Ethics Program

CBA 391

P.O. Box 880488

Lincoln, NE 68588-0488

+1-402-472-5152

Fax: +1-402-472-4100

jlawrence1@unl.edu

Mission

The Program in Business Ethics supports the integration of ethics throughout the curriculum and the discussion of ethical issues among students, faculty and the business community.

Upcoming Events

Students can now endorse the new CBA Business Ethics Code Signature Scroll.

The launch of the new student initiated CBA business ethics code will take place February 14 at the UNL Lied Center for Performing Arts. In conjunction with the event, guest speaker Diann Cattani will present her personal business ethics story to students.

Instructional Resources

Ethics Resource Center Materials

The Ethics Resource Center is located in CBA Room 393. Resources, such as books, journals, articles, magazines, videos and other materials to support integration of ethics into the curriculum, can be found here.

List of available materials

Useful Websites

Links to institutions, organizations and centers with content useful for ethics instruction.

List of useful websites

Activities

The Business Ethics Program has sponsored numerous events over the years promoting issues and concerns regarding the topic of ethical business practices. You can review the range of subjects that have been explored in our previous activities listing.

Previous Activities

Quote of the Week

Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.

Michael Josephson

American ethicist, author, radio commentator, founder of CHARACTER COUNTS! & the Josephson Institute (b. 1942)

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P.O. Box 880405
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0405, USA
Phone: (402) 472-9500
Fax: (402) 472-5180

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