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January 11, 2001

Gift funds GSPIA 2-year pilot program in ethics

Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) has received a $75,000 gift from LaVonne and Glen Johnson to fund a two-year pilot program on ethics and accountability in public and nonprofit organizations.

The gift is the first step by the Johnsons to establish a trust for GSPIA that will permanently support a program addressing issues of ethics and accountability. LaVonne Johnson earned her master's degree in public administration from GSPIA in 1980.

The program, to be based in GSPIA, will incorporate ethical issues faced by domestic and international leaders. A partnership with several other schools at Pitt will integrate issues facing the private sector.

According to GSPIA Dean Carolyn Ban, the pilot program will feature three components:

* A lecture series on ethics and accountability, featuring prominent speakers from academia as well as leaders from government, nonprofit and private sector organizations to stimulate public dialogue among scholars, policy makers, journalists, students, public administrators, watchdog organizations and the public;

* A regional conference on teaching ethics and accountability consisting of two days of papers and panels for faculty from educational institutions in the tri-state area interested in developing and teaching courses on these issues, and

* An international conference on policy and research issues related to ethics, accountability and social responsibility in the public sector, designed to bring together leading experts from the U.S. and Europe.

"This pilot program will allow GSPIA to build on its capacity to mobilize resources to address ethics and accountability issues — whether in university teaching, public policy or administrative practice," said Ban.

For more information, or to register for the lectures, which are free but require registration, call 648-2204 or e-mail: gspialum+@pitt.edu.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 33 Issue 9

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