Through the Fellows program, the Center focuses on intentional formation of student leaders for lives of ethical business.
Juniors, Seniors and Graduate Students are eligible to apply to participate in the Ethics Fellows Program.
Drawing on the resources of the Catholic ethical tradition, students spending a year in a Fellows cohort are given the opportunity to engage more deeply with important questions of business ethics and personal ethical formation, network with business leaders, and serve the New Orleans community by offering financial literacy training to under-resourced communities.
Program includes:
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Bi-Monthly Lunch Colloquiums featuring either discussion of important ethics readings or meetings with ethical business leaders.
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Teaching at financial literacy clinics.
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Trips, events, conferences and retreats to further ethical formation
Do you want to become an Ethics fellow? - Sign up!
Why Boredom Matters - Fall 2023
Dr. Kevin Gary, Educator and Theology professor at Valparaiso University, spoke to our Fellows on the importance of boredom and why you should not trust it. Dr. Gary elaborated from his book, Why Boredom Matters, to explain the meaning of active and passive ways to spend your time and which is more fulfilling to the human mind.
Dr. Kevin Gary's advice to students that feel pressured to always spend their time doing something is that having good friends to surround yourself with is the best way to engage in meaningful activity and hold yourself accountable for the ways you spend your time.
Make your Job a Calling - Spring 2023
The Fellows read excerpts from "Make your Job a Calling" by Bryan Dik, Ph.D., and Ryan Duffy, Ph.D., and explored how the psychology of vocation might alter their future lives at work.
Thank you to our speaker, Austin Webb, a successful investor and developer of small businesses in the #NewOrleans area. Austin bought his first company at 29 and has continued to grow small businesses ever since. Also, it was an honor to have Fr. Peter Nguyen, SJ, Associate Professor of Theology from Creighton University, join us to provide a #Jesuit perspective on vocation.
We are truly inspired by our Ethics Fellows and we can’t wait to see how each can contribute to the common good through their unique vocations!
Leadership - Spring 2023
Jordan Jones, S.J., Marine veteran and Jesuit joined us at the Ethics Fellows Colloquium at Loyola University New Orleans College of Business
The Fellows read excerpts from "Leading Marines, US Marines Corps, MCWP 6-11" to explore the importance of relationship and responsibility for all true leaders and the significance of selfless service and shared hardships.
"Ethical choices often involve a moral dilemma: the necessity to choose between competing obligations in circumstances that prevent one from doing both. But there is more action to it than this. Action is at the heart of ethical behavior. An academic understanding of what is right and wrong is irrelevant unless it is coupled to appropriate action. And even then, the answer is not always clear."
Mr. Jones explained that followership is just as important as leadership.Since every leader is also a follower, without loyal, dedicated followers there can be no effective leaders.