Former President of Costa Rica delivers DePauw Ubben Lecture

21 Mar 2014

This one is from the archives. We’re going through our recent history and curating as many of the interesting videos that discuss ethical issues.

In 2010, Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica, delivered the Ubben Lecture at DePauw. View an interesting excerpt here. He talked about issues related to poverty and higher education. Let us know what you think.

Andrew Cullison is the director of the Cincinnati Ethics Center.

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