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On October 5, 2026 CEHV's University Initiatives Coordinator Piers Turner gave a lecture in Boston University’s “Living Our Values Initiative” Distinguished Speaker Series. His talk, entitled …
Since its inception in 2011, the Center for Ethics and Human Values' Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society (COMPAS) program has provided our campus community with the opportunity to…
In August, Civil Discourse for Citizenship Director Kathryn Joyce and CEHV Associate Director Aaron Yarmel traveled to Yale University to lead two workshops on civil discourse.
These…
CEHV is excited to announce the return of its "Dorm Dialogues" series for the Fall 2026 semester. Facilitated by CEHV Associate Director Aaron Yarmel, these dialogues provide the opportunity for…
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—driving innovation, shaping public conversations, and raising urgent questions about its proper use. The Ohio State University even launched a new…
In an era of contentious politics and ideological polarization, many students are looking for opportunities to engage more constructively in public life. In the spirit of Ohio State’s motto – …
WOSU's Podcast All Sides with Amy Juravich recently covered CEHV's longstanding civil discourse initiatives. The episode, titled "What are the best ways to handle difficult…
CEHV is proud to present our sixth cohort of Civil Discourse Fellows! Civil Discourse Fellows are committed to bringing people with different viewpoints together to respectfully and rigorously…
As Ohio State’s trusted hub for rigorous and respectful discussion on the ethical challenges that shape our university and the broader community, the Center for Ethics and Human Values is pleased…
Associate Director Aaron Yarmel was featured in the Aces of Trades in the Newark Advocate. The article, titled "Ohio State director finds harmony in violin, ethics," covers two aspects of Yarmel's…
Wexner Center for the Arts will host CEHV Director Winston Thompson for a Flash Talk on March 5 at 5 p.m. as part of this year’s Night of Ideas program, “Enlightenment Now: Independence at 250.”…
CEHV Associate Director Aaron Yarmel has been selected as one of nine featured speakers at this year's TEDxOhioStateUniversity annual conference. The conference will be held on March 7, 12-4 pm,…
CEHV Associate Director, Aaron Yarmel, facilitated a campus-wide inquiry dialogue for OSU's first annual Buckey Day of Dialogue. Ohio State News coverage of this event can be found by clicking…
Piers Norris Turner, Associate Professor of Philosophy and CEHV's University Initiatives Coordinator, recently appeared on "In Our Time," the BBC Radio 4…
Center Associate Kate McFarland has authored two pieces for The Rewilding Institute that draw on CEHV programming to talk about conservation ethics.
In her first piece, Does Rewilding Need…
The Lantern covered CEHV's collaboration with the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning in hosting: SB 1 in Practice: Teaching Strategies that Foster Intellectual Diversity. Read…
CEHV Associate Director Dr. Aaron Yarmel was featured in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Ethics & Education podcast. You can listen to the episode, titled "Philosophy With (and for)…
The Ohio State Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Team traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday, December 6, to compete in the inaugural Ohio River Valley Regional Competition. Coaches Kathryn…
In an era of contentious politics and ideological polarization, many students are looking for opportunities to engage more constructively in public life. In the spirit of Ohio State’s motto – …
CEHV's Civil Discourse for Citizenship Program Director, Dr. Kathryn Joyce, was featured in an article in The Blade, a Toledo-based newspaper. In this article, titled "Talking…
The second year for OSU’s Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (APPE IEB) team is underway with an exciting start! On Tuesday, November 4, the CEHV…
In March of 2023, CEHV held our first dorm building dialogue. Our experiments with framing and structure over the ensuing semesters, in collaboration with Rebecca Kapusta from Housing and…
Earlier this fall, Dr. Kathryn Joyce, Program Director for the Civil Discourse for Citizenship initiative, was invited to deliver the formal keynote response at the 2025 conference of the North…
Ohio State News covered CEHV workshops and facilitated dialogues in a news piece and video published on October 23, 2025. Read and watch here.
Earlier this month, Felician University hosted an Ethics Roundtable titled “Whose Speech, Whose Streets? Navigating the Ethics of Protest in Polarized Times,” in…
Last week, Ohio State’s Center for Ethics and Human Values (CEHV) Associate Director Aaron Yarmel delivered a lecture titled “Dialogue Across Divides”…
This semester, CEHV has been hard at work helping faculty and staff prepare to teach in ways that are consistent with SB1. We have offered ten workshops so far, and eight more are…
CEHV's Aaron Yarmel co-authored "Noise Reduction in the Community of Philosophical Inquiry" in the Journal of Philosophy of Education with Maughn Gregory, the Director of the Institute for the…
Please join us in celebrating CEHV’s incoming director, Dr. Winston C. Thompson. Thompson, an internationally renowned philosopher of education concerned with social, political, and ethical issues…
Please join us in congratulating the 2024-25 recipients of the co-curricular Practicing Civil Discourse for Citizenship Certificate!
Aliyah Beitzel, Mechanical Engineering (College…
CEHV's Civil Discourse for Citizenship Program Director, Kathryn Joyce, was featured on the "When We Disagree" podcast, which uses personal narratives to explore deeper issues regarding arguments,…
In the 1960s, philosophers Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp launched a Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement based on the American Pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey, William James, and…
CEHV is very pleased to announce the second cohort of instructors and other leaders to complete our “Ethical Disagreement and Civil Discourse” teaching endorsement program,…
CEHV is very pleased to announce our undergraduate Civil Discourse Fellows for 2025-2026. This new cohort will join the 19 Civil Discourse Fellows currently on campus.
Working with CEHV…
Please join us in congratulating CEHV Civil Discourse Graduate Research Assistant Jamie Herman for being hired into the role of Associate Director of Educational…
Ohio State's Shared Values remain key components of who we are as a university community. They have become deeply integrated into our formal and informal practices--finding their way into…