CONFERENCE WILL PROBE ROLE OF ETHICS IN SOCIETY

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 11-- Educators and the public can
consider the role of ethics in preparing future leaders during the
Charlottesville Conference on Values and Leadership October 2-4 at the
Omni Hotel.
	"Parents say they want more values taught in schools.
Patients sometimes say they need more caring doctors.  Citizens often
say we need more ethical leaders.  The conference will explore a broad
range of issues and concerns related to values, ethics and
leadership," said Margaret
Grogan, co-director of the center that is sponsoring the event.
	Established in 1996, the UCEA Center for the Study of
Leadership and Ethics is a joint collaboration between the University
of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.  Center organizers
held an
inaugural conference on values and leadership in Toronto last fall and
view the Charlottesville conference as a means of establishing a
research agenda that explores the role of ethics in modern society.
	Several nationally recognized experts in ethics will deliver
keynote addresses during the conference.  Kenneth Leithwood, head of
the Centre for Leadership Development at the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, will speak on "The Values Teachers Value in
Their Leaders." Nel Noddings, the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child
Education at Stanford University who is well known for her research in
the ethics of caring, will speak on "Caring Leadership: The Way of the
Future."
	Participants will also consider ethical questions in small
sessions led by local educators and Curry School faculty.  Among those
will be Roslyn Berne, head, Tandem Friends School; Mary 
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Riser, director of St. Anne's-Belfield Middle School; and Eric Bredo,
an associate professor in
the Curry School who is an authority on the philosophy of education.
In addition, Curry School Dean David W. Breneman and law professor
Robert O'Neil will lead a panel debating legal and ethical issues
surrounding tenure.
	Registration for the conference, which is open to anyone,
costs $50 for students and $150 for educators and the public.  Day
registrations are also available.
            To register or to gain more program information, contact
the UCEA Center at (804) 924 0857 or email mgrogan@virginia.edu.   
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September 10, 1997
          

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