Thompson points to recent fellows who have gone on to lead ethics programs at other leading universities. Amy Gutmann, dean of the faculty at Princeton, recently founded that university's Center for Human Values, and Elizabeth Kiss is now director of Duke University's Kenan Center for Ethics.

Goals for the Future

For the future, Thompson says he would like to add new dimensions to the Program.

He says he would like to create short-term fellowships for executives like those offered by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government.

"Many executives can't take a year off, or they are not academics," he says.

Thompson says he would also like to see the Program produce more publications and establish a fund to sponsor ethics-related projects for students and faculty.

Kleinig, a pioneer in the ethics of policing, says he would like to see the Program continue to support applications of ethics to different practical and occupational situations.

"There will be a temptation for the program to stick with business ethics, medical ethics," Kleinig says. "I guess it would be nice for the program to be able to identify new areas in which ethical questions should be raised and developed."