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Student-Organized Events
The Parr Center is delighted to be able to guide and support student initiatives around
ethics, while helping to hone the students’ organizational and other skills along the
way. Academic year 2018-19 saw a notable uptick in student-organized events held
under our auspices and with our financial and organizational support. We are very
proud of what our students accomplished!
The Parr Center is the official sponsor of the University’s undergraduate ethics club,
the Carolina Forum for Ethics (CFE), which is led by Parr Center Undergraduate
Fellows. The CFE decided to highlight veterans’ issues in fall 2018, holding a film
screening in October and successfully putting together a multispeaker panel on our
obligations toward returning veterans, which took place in November. With the help of
Parr Center staff, students researched the ethical issues, selected and invited
appropriate speakers (both academic and non-academic), planned the format of the
event, and publicized the panel. They even obtained support from a variety of partners
beyond the Parr Center, namely the UNC Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program
(PPE), the UNC Peace, War, and Defense program (PWAD), and the Carolina Veterans
Organization. This event received coverage in the Daily Tar Heel, Carolina’s studentrun
newspaper (see p. 9 below).
CFE leaders repeated this success with another multispeaker conference on
environmental ethics, held in April 2019. In between these two conferences the CFE
held screenings and discussions on other ethical themes: see p. 11 for representative
event publicity. As already mentioned on p. 6 above, a different group of Parr Center
Undergraduate Fellows mounted outreach initiatives aimed at the local community.
See p. 11 below for sample publicity for one of those events.
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