Civil Discourse for Citizenship

CEHV's Civil Discourse for Citizenship program supports undergraduates, staff, and faculty in the practice of civil discourse. Our program is built around the "4Cs of Civil Discourse": Be Curious, Be Charitable, Be Conscientious, and Be Constructive. Students, educators, and others are encouraged to explore our free online Carmen Canvas course about the 4Cs. CEHV also trains Civil Discourse Fellows to plan and serve as moderators in Civil Discourse Forums featuring speakers who disagree on contentious issues. We offer a unique 3-credit course on free speech and civil discourse (ARTSSCI 2400/E), a 4-course academic certificate, a co-curricular certificate program, an Ethics Bowl team, and tailored workshops for students and staff outside the classroom. We also host a teaching endorsement for instructors called Ethical Disagreement and Civil Discourse through the Drake Institute. This work is pursued with generous support from the Derrow Family Foundation and Lee and Pat Mohan.

CARE - Conversations About Research Ethics

CARE fosters multidisciplinary and foundational discussion of cutting-edge ethical issues arising from research practice. Led by trained ethicists, the program hosts monthly discussion panels with external speakers and experienced Ohio State researchers on new developments in the field of research ethics. It also offers the CARE Training Program in the responsible conduct of research to support faculty, postdocs, and students in satisfying federal grant ethics guidelines.

ETHOS: "Ethics at Ohio State"

ETHOS is CEHV's program advancing the Shared Values Initiative at Ohio State. We helped to craft the new Ohio State Shared Values framework, and we support discussion on those values through the ETHOS Fellows Program, a discussion-based introduction to the Shared Values that also incentivizes fellows to develop related programming in units across the university. We have trained 122 ETHOS Fellows since 2021 from all Ohio State campuses.

COMPAS - Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society

COMPAS is a year-long series of interdisciplinary events on controversial topics of public concern such as immigration, sustainability, technology, and religion. In 2023-2024 we celebrated this original CEHV program with COMPAS Directions: A Decade of Ethical Exploration. Our next program will be on the topic of "Food." The program aims to model complex and informed discussion of ethical challenges facing our society.

Distinguished Lecture in Ethics

CEHV's Distinguished Lecture in Ethics series brings to campus thinkers who have been influential outside of the academy in addition to having made groundbreaking contributions to ethics or political philosophy. Past speakers have included Amartya Sen, Danielle Allen, Miranda Fricker, and Elizabeth Anderson. Over the years we have also partnered with others to host prominent speakers including Jeffrey Sachs, JD Vance, and Kwame Anthony Appiah.