Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
| Established | 1986 |
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| Budget | $2 million |
| Director | Kirk O. Hanson |
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Administrative staff
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14 |
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Other students
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51 |
| Location | Santa Clara, California, U.S. |
| Website | www.scu.edu/ethics |
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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University promotes research and dialogue in seven major focus areas: Bioethics, Business Ethics, Campus Ethics, Character Education, Internet Ethics, Government Ethics, and Nonprofit Ethics. The Center develops practical decision-making tools, including an app, Making an Ethical Decision, and several MOOCs on ethics. It also offers public talks, workshops, and training, as well as sponsoring activities on the SCU campus for students, faculty, and staff. The Center was created by an endowment from Apple Inc. co-founder Mike Markkula and his wife Linda Markkula.
Through partnerships with area hospitals and hospices, the Center works in the area of clinical ethics, especially in developing policies on issues such as organ donation after cardiac death and artificial nutrition and hydration. The hospitals also provide the sites for a Health Care Ethics Internship for undergraduates. The Center’s bioethics research has focused on “Medical Decision Making for Unbefriended and Unrepresented Patients,” “Culturally Competent Care,” and “Pandemic Ethics. “ Center Bioethics Director Margaret R. McLean was a consultant to the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health on pandemic ethics. She served as an advisor to the California Senate Select Committee on Genetics and is currently a consultant to the California Department of Public Health.
The Center’s Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership brings together business executives and business ethics scholars from Santa Clara University and other Bay Area institutions. The partnership is a forum to learn how to create an ethical organizational culture. It has sponsored research on issues such as “Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing” and “Corporate Moral Responsibility and the Ethics of Product Usage.” The Center also offers programs for boards on directors on assessing the ethical culture of their organizations. The Center’s Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson received a Liftetime Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education.
More than 50 members of the Santa Clara University faculty are scholars of the Ethics Center with expertise in a variety of fields from literature to engineering. The Center offers both faculty and student Hackworth Grants for research on applied ethics and Hackworth Fellowships for students interested in creating programming on ethics for their peers. The Campus Ethics Program also organizes weekly presentations on ethics in many applied fields, including technology, diversity, immigration, law, and other topics.
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