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Issue date: 11/17/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Courtesy of Shorter Public Relations Pictured are Col. Hopkins (second from left) and his wife, Jody, with Shorter College President Dr. Harold E. Newman (right) and Dr. Robert "Dub" Darville, dean of the college's School of Business Administration. Hopkins and his wife donated $200,000 to the Business Department to fund a school of business ethics.

In the coming semester, Shorter's Business Department will unveil its School of Business Ethics, which will be known as the Hopkins Institution for Business Ethics. The school is named after Colonel Harvard Hopkins, a Shorter trustee and the man who donated $200,000 to the business department.

"The institution will focus on strengthening the presence of ethics at Shorter," said Robert Darville, Dean of the School of Business Administration.

The school plans on having an annual ethics seminar featuring notable, ethical leaders within the community.

"It will be divided into conferences that Shorter will sponsor," said Darville.

The recent financial crises witnessed in the U.S. economy as well as corrupt business dealings like Enron seem to have made this move toward a school of ethics necessary.

"It is our Christian mission to install Christian principles of behavior in our graduates," said Harold Newman, president of Shorter.

Business students are getting use to this new idea and are inquiring about the new institution; still they are excited about it.

"It's definitely a good idea," said sophomore, Chrissy James. "It will keep us more into what is going on in the economy today."

Sophomore Joe Colquitt believes that the school will definitely benefit those earning a business degree, saying "Business ethics is something all students need to learn."

Shorter believes the new institution will bring opportunity for both the college and the community, especially in light of Newman and the Board of Trustees decision to make transition Shorter into university status.

"I see this institution as just one of the building blocks for Shorter University," said Newman. "We would like to become the first choice for students wanting to attend a Christian college in the South."

The material the school will offer is not limited to business majors alone but to all students interested in learning about business ethics.

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