The Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership will be offering programming to compliment what the Broad College of Business students are learning in your classrooms. We will be working with our esteemed faculty to offer extracurricular programming for students, as well as offering professional development opportunities for Faculty around integrating ethics and social responsibility into curriculum across the college.
Faculty Fellows
The purpose of the Faculty Fellows program is to connect the esteemed Faculty of the College of Business to the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership. Faculty Fellows help highlight the research competencies that are a part of the College within the broader domain of Ethics. In addition, Fellows will be an integral part of CESRL’s mission to partner with our faculty colleagues to help educated and elevate our students understanding of ethics and what socially responsible leadership is in action. Faculty Fellows will be current or emeritus Faculty members from Michigan State University who have experience in teaching or research related to aspects of ethics or social responsibility related topics.
Expectations from the faculty fellows
- Actively participate in two meetings each semester for the duration of your term during the academic year (September and November and February and April). These meetings will facilitate an exchange of center specific information, and brainstorming ideas for the future and the following six months.
- Engage with the Center in a minimum of one of the following ways:
- Priority invitations to student and community events that involve CESRL.
- A willingness to engage/lead in at least one educational event per year during your term. Activities include presentation, dialogues, conferences, webinars, symposia, case study competitions, debates on ethics/ESG related topics.
- A willingness to share connections within your personal and professional networks that would be relevant to the work of the Center and help expand center initiatives such as curriculum development, research, outreach, and experiential learning opportunities.
- A willingness to serve as a judge for Case Competitions around the topics of ethics or social responsibility
- Engage with the CESRL leadership team to help identify programming opportunities and/ or gaps, identify possible content experts for presentations/educational events, share innovative ways that organizations are being a force for good within their communities, and share current trends within specific industries for ethics and social responsibility.
- Become a voice in your home department on Ethics and Social Responsibility.
Benefits of being a CESRL faculty scholar/fellow
- Faculty Fellows will be featured on the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leaderships webpage
- Acknowledgement in our Annual Reports
- Opportunity to Directly impact and influence the next generation of Business Leaders within the Broad College of Business and student and faculty engagement
- Be on the CESRL Listserv to look at potential grant opportunities that can fit your competencies
- Potential opportunities to partner with external organizations on experiential learning projects for pursuing research agenda.
How faculty fellows are selected/identified
Faculty Fellows will be invited. They can also be nominated by colleagues or self-nominate. We will have both teaching and research fellows. A key element of participation is that fellows need to be represented across departments (Accounting Information Systems, Finance, Hospitality Business Management, Marketing and Supply Chain).
Curricular Mini Grant Application
CESRL is sponsoring a set of six curricular mini-grants, to be provided to instructors who have plans to better infuse ethics and/or social responsibility content in one or more courses in 2023 or 2024.
We will allocate up to six awards with a maximum grant of $2000 per award. The highest-scoring application from each department will receive a grant. If there are no applications from some departments, remaining awards will be distributed to the highest-scoring applicants who were not yet awarded, provided their proposal has an acceptable score (5 or higher) on the three primary criteria. Each request will be scored by CESRL directors on the criteria below.
Application Process
Primary criteria (scored 1-10)
| Secondary criteria (scored 1-5)
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The highest-scoring application from each department will receive a grant. If there are no applications from some departments, remaining awards will be distributed to the highest-scoring applicants who were not yet awarded, provided their proposal has an acceptable score (5 or higher) on the three primary criteria.
Apply for a curricular mini grant
Applications must be submitted by January 15 for consideration. Awards will be announced by February 15.
Matching Grant Speaker Series Program
The purpose of the Matching Grant Speaker Program is to support educational efforts around ethics and social responsibility that are taking place at a department level.
CESRL encourages and supports departmental level opportunities to bring in thought leaders to engage and educate our students and faculty colleagues regarding issues of ethics or social responsibility in direct relation to each major.
Each department can invite a seminar speaker of their choice. CESRL has allocated $2,000/- for your department in a year.
In filling this request, you agree to adhere to the following conditions:
- The speaker will present on a topic related to Ethics and Social Responsibility.
- The department chair has approved the matching funds for the request being submitted.
- The grant may be turned down if the total funds allocated for the department exceeds $2000/- CESRL will make every effort to consider grants in excess of $2000/- for each department, depending on fund availability and allocation fairness considerations.
How to Apply
Faculty Colleagues in Departments who want to apply for the grant must keep Department Chairs/Directors of individual departments in the loop. An email that commits the matching funds from departments would be necessary for speaker funds to be released.
Application Process
Application is on a rolling basis. CESRL will try to coordinate dates for the speakers with the department to ensure that there are not multiple speakers for the same series. CESRL only asks that the departments widely promote the speaker visit as a joint Department-CESRL Speaker series. Applications are on a rolling basis. Should departments not use all their dollars for the speaker series, CESRL will move to allocate extra dollars to other departments that have an open speaker slot – with no matching requirements.
Department will also be required to send a follow up on the number of attendees in the seminar, and submit a seminar abstract for CESRL records.
Announcements for Speaker series will be on a rolling basis.
Apply for the Matching Grant Speaker Program
This is a rolling grant, on a first-come-first-serve basis as funds last
Research Grants
The purpose of the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership (CESRL) offering Research Grants is to support the ongoing development of new knowledge around ethics and social responsibility. This research will elevate the educational experiences of the students within the Broad College of Business as well as continue the national conversation around innovative aspects of how ethics and social responsibility impact all practices of business in our global society.
The Center invites proposals for research grants from individuals within the college. Grant’s primary investigators must be full time faculty within the Broad College. The Grant award should primarily be used to purchase data, conduct surveys/lab experiments etc. There will be two awards, up to a maximum of $9000/- each. More than two awards may be granted depending on budgets available to support research efforts. For data requests more than $9000/- CESRL will require the individual to seek support from the department to fill the balance.
CESRL will prioritize supporting research opportunities for Assistant Professors and Doctoral Students within the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Research funding will be decided by CESRL in collaboration with Institute of Business Research. Funds will be available once every academic year.
Funded applicants must be willing to present in a speaker series with the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership to share findings from the data. For purchased data, we may request the individuals to share the data with rest of the college. In that sense, we will prioritize data purchases that also have cross departmental value.
Apply for a Research Grant
Applications must be submitted by January 15 for consideration. Awards will be announced by February 15.
Contact Information
- Managing Director
- Beth Hammond
- hammon25@broad.msu.edu
- Phone: (517) 353-4299
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