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J. Tylee Wilson Chair in Business Ethics

The Schools of Business at Wake Forest University seek a thought leader in business ethics to become the J. Tylee Wilson Chair in Business Ethics. 

Key Responsibilities

1.  Serve as lead architect for a fresh approach to ethics education within the business school. Design and champion curricula to serve core requirements and to distinctively contribute to the intellectual development of our business students.  Establish a long-term vision for ethics education within the Schools of Business.

2.  Develop broad-scale and comprehensive initiatives for ethics programming, both curricular and extra-curricular, within the Schools of Business and linking the Schools of Business with other Wake Forest academic units, such as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Medicine, Law and Divinity.  Support is available to found an institute or center of excellence with a focus area within business ethics; recommendations on focus and scope from the new J. Tylee Wilson Chair will be welcomed.

3.  Teach approximately 2 semester-length courses per academic year.

4.  Engage in scholarship of exceptional quality with a productivity level to be expected of a senior scholar and noteworthy leader within the academic business ethics community.  It is anticipated that the J. Tylee Wilson Chair will serve not only as a model for junior faculty of our teacher-scholar paradigm but also as a mentor to those colleagues who seek to integrate ethics into research streams in other domains.  Thus, a colleague is sought who evinces an ability to span disciplinary boundaries.

Attributes

A successful candidate will possess the following desirable attributes:

• Deep academic credentials in the domain of business ethics, fostering a national or international standing within the field.
• Demonstrated experience with the development, integration and execution of ethics curricula.
• A clear passion for ethics education and pedagogy, grounded in a mature view of the future of business education and the evolving role of business ethics.
• A strong track record of excellence in teaching ethics and an impressive history of relevant scholarly publications.
• An engaging style of communication and a facility in leading ethics-related conversations with a range of audiences.

Background

Supported by the significant resources of the University and the Schools of Business, the J. Tylee Wilson Chair will help to define the role of ethics within our newly merged undergraduate and graduate business programs.  From this exciting moment in the school's history has emerged an extraordinary opportunity to achieve dramatic impact in numerous ways -- by crafting vision, determining strategic priorities and pioneering curricular and pedagogical innovations. 

Direction and insight provided by the J. Tylee Wilson Chair will be integral to the pursuit of a mission-critical objective within our new organizational context: To prepare passionate, ethical business leaders to gain results with integrity.  This charge derives naturally from the heritage and prevailing culture of Wake Forest, which create a uniquely fertile environment within which the discipline of ethics can flourish.  From its founding, the University has followed a motto of "pro humanitate," which manifests in a keen institutional commitment to service and the advancement of the greater good.  This legacy of 176 years combines powerfully with the University's dedication to the liberal arts ideal, as reflected in this excerpt from our Statement of Mission and Purpose:

Wake Forest...seeks to encourage habits of mind that ask "why," that evaluate evidence, that are open to new ideas, that attempt to understand and appreciate the perspectives of others, that accept complexity and grapple with it, that admit error, and that pursue truth (Wake Forest Faculty Handbook, p. 2).

The centrality of ethics within the University's value system is exemplified in the recent founding of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society; the development of the Initiative on Ethics, Religion and Law; and the ongoing activities of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism.  The Center for Bioethics, Health and Society brings together faculty from varied backgrounds to collaboratively address ethical, social, and policy issues of importance for health care, biomedical research, and public health.  Meanwhile, the Initiative on Ethics, Religion and Law seeks to address critical ethical issues in the arenas of law and religion.  Finally, the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism examines the philosophical foundations of capitalism, its impacts on society, and its relation to current social and political issues.  Considerable opportunity exists for the J. Tylee Wilson Chair to engage with these thriving hubs of intellectual activity, as well as to complement their work through the establishment of a new center focused on issues of relevance to business ethics.

About Wake Forest University and the Schools of Business

Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational institution dedicated to academic excellence in the liberal arts, graduate and professional education.  Founded in 1834, Wake Forest is ranked among the top 25 national universities and is one of the leading private liberal arts institutions in the country. The University enrolls approximately 4500 undergraduates and 2400 graduate and professional students, with a student-faculty ratio of 10:1. 

The newly unified Schools of Business was formed after the merger of the former Calloway School of Business and Accountancy and the Babcock Graduate School of Management (both AACSB accredited).  The current roster of business programs within the Schools of Business includes the following:  Undergraduate Finance, Undergraduate Business and Enterprise Management, Undergraduate Mathematical Business, Master of Science in Accountancy, Master of Arts in Management, Fulltime MBA, Working Professional MBA.  Courses are offered on both our beautiful home campus in Winston-Salem, NC and our new and growing urban campus in Charlotte, NC. 

For more information on the Schools of Business and Wake Forest University, please visit www.business.wfu.edu.

Wake Forest welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applicants with demonstrated success in working with diverse populations.  Wake Forest seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University and to offer students richly varied disciplines, perspectives and ways of knowing and learning.

Inquiries and Application Procedures

Electronic applications are strongly preferred.  Please submit vita and supporting materials via the University's application site at https://wakejobs.silkroad.com/. Questions about the position may be addressed to the Search Committee at busethics@wfu.edu.  Review of vitae will begin February 1, 2011.

[Apologies for 1. Reposting and 2. cross-posts]

I posted this in December but am resending since it was a slow email period – sorry but I want to catch all who might be interested.

J. Tylee Wilson Chair in Business Ethics

The Schools of Business at Wake Forest University seek a thought leader in business ethics to become the J. Tylee Wilson Chair in Business Ethics. 

Key Responsibilities

1.  Serve as lead architect for a fresh approach to ethics education within the business school. Design and champion curricula to serve core requirements and to distinctively contribute to the intellectual development of our business students.  Establish a long-term vision for ethics education within the Schools of Business.

2.  Develop broad-scale and comprehensive initiatives for ethics programming, both curricular and extra-curricular, within the Schools of Business and linking the Schools of Business with other Wake Forest academic units, such as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Medicine, Law and Divinity.  Support is available to found an institute or center of excellence with a focus area within business ethics; recommendations on focus and scope from the new J. Tylee Wilson Chair will be welcomed.

3.  Teach approximately 2 semester-length courses per academic year.

4.  Engage in scholarship of exceptional quality with a productivity level to be expected of a senior scholar and noteworthy leader within the academic business ethics community.  It is anticipated that the J. Tylee Wilson Chair will serve not only as a model for junior faculty of our teacher-scholar paradigm but also as a mentor to those colleagues who seek to integrate ethics into research streams in other domains.  Thus, a colleague is sought who evinces an ability to span disciplinary boundaries.

Attributes

A successful candidate will possess the following desirable attributes:

• Deep academic credentials in the domain of business ethics, fostering a national or international standing within the field.
• Demonstrated experience with the development, integration and execution of ethics curricula.
• A clear passion for ethics education and pedagogy, grounded in a mature view of the future of business education and the evolving role of business ethics.
• A strong track record of excellence in teaching ethics and an impressive history of relevant scholarly publications.
• An engaging style of communication and a facility in leading ethics-related conversations with a range of audiences.

Background

Supported by the significant resources of the University and the Schools of Business, the J. Tylee Wilson Chair will help to define the role of ethics within our newly merged undergraduate and graduate business programs.  From this exciting moment in the school's history has emerged an extraordinary opportunity to achieve dramatic impact in numerous ways -- by crafting vision, determining strategic priorities and pioneering curricular and pedagogical innovations. 

Direction and insight provided by the J. Tylee Wilson Chair will be integral to the pursuit of a mission-critical objective within our new organizational context: To prepare passionate, ethical business leaders to gain results with integrity.  This charge derives naturally from the heritage and prevailing culture of Wake Forest, which create a uniquely fertile environment within which the discipline of ethics can flourish.  From its founding, the University has followed a motto of "pro humanitate," which manifests in a keen institutional commitment to service and the advancement of the greater good.  This legacy of 176 years combines powerfully with the University's dedication to the liberal arts ideal, as reflected in this excerpt from our Statement of Mission and Purpose:

Wake Forest...seeks to encourage habits of mind that ask "why," that evaluate evidence, that are open to new ideas, that attempt to understand and appreciate the perspectives of others, that accept complexity and grapple with it, that admit error, and that pursue truth (Wake Forest Faculty Handbook, p. 2).

The centrality of ethics within the University's value system is exemplified in the recent founding of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society; the development of the Initiative on Ethics, Religion and Law; and the ongoing activities of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism.  The Center for Bioethics, Health and Society brings together faculty from varied backgrounds to collaboratively address ethical, social, and policy issues of importance for health care, biomedical research, and public health.  Meanwhile, the Initiative on Ethics, Religion and Law seeks to address critical ethical issues in the arenas of law and religion.  Finally, the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism examines the philosophical foundations of capitalism, its impacts on society, and its relation to current social and political issues.  Considerable opportunity exists for the J. Tylee Wilson Chair to engage with these thriving hubs of intellectual activity, as well as to complement their work through the establishment of a new center focused on issues of relevance to business ethics.

About Wake Forest University and the Schools of Business

Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational institution dedicated to academic excellence in the liberal arts, graduate and professional education.  Founded in 1834, Wake Forest is ranked among the top 25 national universities and is one of the leading private liberal arts institutions in the country. The University enrolls approximately 4500 undergraduates and 2400 graduate and professional students, with a student-faculty ratio of 10:1. 

The newly unified Schools of Business was formed after the merger of the former Calloway School of Business and Accountancy and the Babcock Graduate School of Management (both AACSB accredited).  The current roster of business programs within the Schools of Business includes the following:  Undergraduate Finance, Undergraduate Business and Enterprise Management, Undergraduate Mathematical Business, Master of Science in Accountancy, Master of Arts in Management, Fulltime MBA, Working Professional MBA.  Courses are offered on both our beautiful home campus in Winston-Salem, NC and our new and growing urban campus in Charlotte, NC. 

For more information on the Schools of Business and Wake Forest University, please visit www.business.wfu.edu.

Wake Forest welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applicants with demonstrated success in working with diverse populations.  Wake Forest seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University and to offer students richly varied disciplines, perspectives and ways of knowing and learning.

Inquiries and Application Procedures

Electronic applications are strongly preferred.  Please submit vita and supporting materials via the University's application site at https://wakejobs.silkroad.com/. Questions about the position may be addressed to the Search Committee at busethics@wfu.edu.  Review of vitae will begin February 1, 2011.