Conference on Career Education - The Prindle Institute for Ethics

Building the Examined Career

Career education has emerged as a focal element of higher education in the 21st century. Along with its opportunities for reflection and inquiry, career education is now a critical part of higher education’s response to issues including automation, artificial intelligence and the rising cost of college. As a practice, it has remarkable and underexamined historical roots in both vocational guidance activism and the liberal arts tradition.

CONFERENCE ON CAREER EDUCATION: APRIL 12-13, 2027

Career Education: Ethical Opportunities, Practical Challenges

A brand new two-day conference, sponsored jointly by DePauw University and Denison University, brings together leaders in career education and faculty from across liberal arts colleges, with a focus on the nature of their partnership and its essential role in student support. Through engaged conversations and panel discussions, the conference aims to candidly explore emerging ethical issues for career educators, and to surface and examine practical solutions to the urgent concerns faculty and college leaders face.

The conference begins at noon on April 12, 2027, and runs through the evening of April 13 at the Prindle Institute for Ethics in Greencastle, Indiana.

Guiding Questions

What do we owe students?

Two questions anchor the conversation.

What kind of career education do colleges owe to their students?

How can ethical advice and self-reflection prepare students in the face of significant uncertainty about the future of work?

We ask that each college or university send a team that includes at least one faculty member and at least one career services professional. There is no registration fee, and modest funding is available to help offset travel and lodging. Because resources are limited, please request funding only if you do not have support from your home institution.

Keynote Address

Grant Rozeboom

Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Saint Mary’s College of California

Grant Rozeboom is associate professor of business ethics and social responsibility in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department at Saint Mary’s College of California. His recent research focuses on the nature of corporate responsibility and on the social norms and virtues associated with establishing social relations of equality in the workplace.

He co-edited “Working as Equals” (Oxford University Press, 2023) and is co-editing “The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Work.” He is also at work on a forthcoming monograph, “The Character of Equality at Work.”

Also at the Prindle Institute

Midwest Ethics Symposium

Immediately after the conference, the Prindle Institute will host the fifth annual Midwest Ethics Symposium, April 13-15, 2027. This year’s theme, Work, Productivity, and Meaning, brings together researchers, professionals and students to grapple with ethical questions about the future of work, the value of productivity and the ways work can contribute to or detract from a meaningful life.

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