The institute is a cornerstone of Haverford 2030, the College's strategic
plan. Through it, students will discover new pathways to become the
world's ethical thinkers and leaders.
HAVERFORD, Pa., April 26,
2024 /CNW/ -- For generations of Haverford students, whose first official act
upon matriculation is to pledge allegiance to the Honor Code,
'doing the right thing' is more than a guiding principle of campus
life and work. It becomes a lifelong commitment to the betterment
of community by considering how our actions as individuals impact
others.
Such concern – captured so well by the distinctly Haverfordian
phrase 'trust, concern, and respect' – has inspired Michael B. Kim '85 to give the College
$25 million to establish and support
Haverford's new Institute for
Ethical Inquiry and Leadership.
"Ethical inquiry is at the core of a Haverford education, and leadership without
ethics is a body without a soul," says Michael Kim. "The new Institute, with its
interdisciplinary approach and international engagement, will
pioneer the way we think about ethics and practice ethics-based
leadership in the global community."
A Haverford education wrestles
with critical ethical questions in the classroom, laboratory,
studio, and field, encouraging students to steep themselves in
ethical inquiry, and to seek justice and right relationship in all
of their endeavors. Cultivating a quality of mind, heart, and
practice, the Institute will offer an innovative residential
liberal arts experience centered on ethics in action. At the heart
of the Institute's work is a cross-disciplinary and practice-based
approach that understands ethical impact and global engagement as
crucial to the work of the liberal arts. Its unique
interdisciplinary context will add depth, breadth, and dimension to
the College's current educational model.
Michael Kim's foundational gift
will catalyze a major fundraising effort to realize the full vision
of this new collegewide initiative. Highlights will include:
- A new Ethical Inquiry and Leadership sequence within the
curriculum, led by the faculty
- Endowed professorships across the liberal arts to engage in
curricular and programming foci of the Ethical Inquiry and
Leadership Institute
- Endowed staffing and programming support to engage community
leaders and partners in year-round opportunities
- A new building that will have flexible, communal spaces for
teaching, meeting, research, and active projects, in support of our
emerging comprehensive campus plan
"This transformative gift and the institute it will create
clearly articulate Haverford's
enduring commitment to an ethically centered liberal arts
education," says Haverford President Wendy
Raymond. "Through the institute, our students will be
provided with rigorous, interdisciplinary opportunities as they
prepare for lives of integrity, ambition, and purpose. I am
extraordinarily grateful for Michael's incredible leadership and
support of the College."
The Institute is a cornerstone of Haverford 2030, our strategic plan that
calls for enlivened pathways through liberal arts education and
career development opportunities, new modes of experiential
learning, and support for areas of learning that will situate
students in the world as ethical thinkers and leaders.
Long involved with his alma mater as a volunteer, Kim served on
its Board of Managers from 2005-17. Philanthropically, he stepped
up during the College's most recent fundraising campaign and built
one of the 200-acre campus' newest dorms, naming it for his father,
Ki Yong Kim. With his novel published and business well
established, Kim has renewed his commitment of service to
Haverford and recently returned to
the College's Board of Managers. He will become its chair on
July 1.
"I look forward to working, with Wendy
Raymond and the College leadership, to advance our central
mission of academic excellence and to support our special,
values-based community."
CONTACT
Dominic
Mercier
Editorial Director
Haverford
College
dmercier@haverford.edu
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