SMU Associate Professor Alida Liberman, Ph.D., delivered the 2021 Maguire Public Scholar Lecture on Wednesday, November 17, 2021.Her lecture addresses whether exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates (e.g., from an employer or university) should be accommodated as conscientious objections, understood as penalty-free exemptions to a law or policy bas…

Renowned scholar Professor Charles E. Curran is the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values and author of the chapter "Christian Ethics, the University, and the Broader Human Society" in the new publication Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education. A pillar in the field of theology for over 40 years, Curran was the first recipient of…

Professor Robert Howell is an SMU Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, Philosophy Department Chair and author of the chapter "Should Ethics Be Taught? Ethics in the Secular University" in the new publication "Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education." Professor Rita Kirk is an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and the William F. May Endow…

Wm. Thomas Mayo is an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law in the SMU Dedman Law School and author of "Using the Humanities to Explore Professionalism in Medical and Law Schools," a chapter in the newly released book Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education. Rita Kirk, an editor and author of the book, serves as the Willia…