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Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowship ProgramsThe Parr Center offers co-curricular programming to Carolina students at both theundergraduate and graduate levels. The Undergraduate and Graduate FellowshipPrograms are open to students in any area of study who share an interest in ethics.These programs involve students in a range of activities at the Parr Center, includingmany of the offerings described in this annual report. Since the Parr Center offers nocourses of its own, these two programs make up the core of our “student body.”The Parr Center Undergraduate Fellowship is a selective co-curricular program forwhich students are chosen on the basis of a written application and, for the first time in2018-19, a personal interview with Parr Center staff. Criteria for selection are thestudent’s interest in deepening their ethical competencies through co-curricularenhancement and their likely contribution to team-based and project-based ethicallearning.Undergraduate Fellows attend Parr Center public events, participate in dedicatedFellows evening meetings, assist with the North Carolina and National High SchoolEthics Bowls, and pursue a year-long ethics-related team project, for which they spendat least two hours a week in the Parr Center working with their team.The Undergraduate Fellowship had 35 members in 2018-19, reflecting a 17% increasefrom 2017-18. They came from a wide variety of fields of study, including Philosophy,Slavic Languages, Business, Psychology, Computer Science, Women’s and GenderStudies, Dramatic Art, Biology, and more.The Fellowship year began in 2018-19 with an inaugural Induction Ceremony at WilsonLibrary, at which new and returning Fellows were introduced and welcomed into the2018-2019 cohort. The Fellows then met in the evening ten times throughout theacademic year to hear and discuss Fellow-focused lectures from UNC scholarspresenting current research in ethics. (Topics this year included emotions and protests,the use of artificial intelligence by the private sector, and morality in the face of death.)Fellows also benefitted throughout the year from private lunches with high-profilevisiting speakers. After training with Parr Center staff, Undergraduate Fellows servedas moderators at the North Carolina and National High School Ethics Bowlscompetitions.Finally, Fellows pursued six year-long team projects in ethics at the Parr Center, underthe close supervision of Parr Center staff. One group of Fellows took on leadership roles5
in UNC’s undergraduate ethics club, the Carolina Forum for Ethics, and organizedseveral campus events in that capacity (see “Student-Organized Events,” p. 8 below).These included a panel discussion on Moral Obligations to Returning Veterans and anEnvironmental Ethics conference. Another team researched, designed, and led a#ProfessionalEthics social media campaign, highlighting instances of ethical dilemmasarising in a variety of professions. One team focused on community outreach, hostingmovie screenings followed by discussion of the ethical issues the films raise. These wereheld at the Chapel Hill Public Library. The blog team wrote and edited twelve posts forthe new ParrHeels blog, which is featured on the Parr Center website. Another teamprovided support to the NHSEB, and a final group of Fellows began development of an“ethics app” which diagnoses the user’s preferred ethical theory by raising ethicalquestions and dilemmas to which the user responds.At the conclusion of the spring semester, teams designed academic postersencapsulating their work for the year. Fellows presented their posters at the inauguralParr Center End-of-Year Celebration and Poster Show, at which each graduating Fellowwas honored with a special graduation cord and a certificate.The Parr Center Graduate Fellowship brought together 17 graduate students (fromPhilosophy, Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, and Education) in 2018-19.Many of these students participated in our Outreach Program (see “Philosophy/ParrCenter Outreach Program,” pp. 27-28 below). They also attended Parr Center publiclectures and were invited (in small numbers) to dine with our visiting speakers afterthese talks. Many volunteered as judges at the North Carolina and National HighSchool Ethics Bowls. For the first time in 2018-19, we took steps toward encouraging theGraduate Fellows to mentor the Undergraduate Fellows, introducing the two groups toeach other at an Undergrad/Grad Fellows Mixer heartily enjoyed by all. Finally,Graduate Student Fellows were given priority to present their own research at aninternational conference we organized for the first time this year, the CRÉ/Parr JointConference 2019 (see “Parr Center Partnerships,” p. 19 below). Two of our threespeakers at that event were Graduate Fellows.6
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