Provost’s Ethics Colloquium
The Provost’s Ethics Colloquium promotes cross-disciplinary, cross-college conversations about ethics-related issues. By hosting a speaker series, highlighting existing ethics seminars and activities, encouraging additional events, and providing virtual resources, the Colloquium fosters increased interaction and collaboration among faculty and staff members working with an ethical perspective on virtually any issue facing the community.
Please suggest ethics-related events for co-sponsorship and/or prospective topics and speakers for future events by contacting [email protected].
2025-2026 Ethics Colloquium: The Future of Higher Education
Please join us for the Provost’s Ethics Colloquium on The Future of Higher Education on Tuesday, January 27, from 3–5 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Theatre. The keynote speakers will be Drs. Jay Akridge and David Hummels, both Purdue University economists and experienced academic leaders.
Dr. Akridge is a Professor of Agricultural Economics, Trustee Chair in Teaching and Learning Excellence, and Provost Emeritus at Purdue University; Dr. Hummels is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Dean Emeritus at the Daniels School of Business at Purdue. Both are brilliant, thoughtful, and engaging speakers with strategic, practical suggestions for addressing the challenges we are facing in higher education.
In their blog, Finding Equilibrium: Two Economists on Higher Ed’s Future, they offer well-reasoned, compelling, economic arguments for the value of higher education. Their topics include academic freedom, tenure, research funding, institutional autonomy, accountability, and more.
Following the keynote will be a panel of outstanding CSU leaders ready to talk about the future of higher education.
Supporting the Colloquium
A fund was established to enable the Provost’s Ethics Colloquium to bring a compelling, high-profile speaker to campus each year. By donating, benefactors help enable the Colloquium to continue sponsoring events that promote meaningful engagement with ethics-related issues.
If you wish to donate, you may visit the CSU Donations website and choose “CSU Ethics Colloquium Support” in the Designation(s) field. Thank you for your consideration and for helping us support this valuable cause.