ADVISORY/Santa Clara University Faculty Expert on Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Available for Comment on Mutual Fund Industry Scandal

Business Wire, Nov 17, 2003

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ADVISORY...

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WHAT: Santa Clara University faculty expert available to comment on the implications of the mutual fund industry scandals, the crisis of confidence, and the erosion of public trust in mutual fund governance and leadership.

WHO: Kirk O. Hanson, university professor and executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.

Contact: Deepa Arora, SCU media relations at 408-554-5125 or Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at 408-554-7893 to set up interviews.

About the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif., is a nationally recognized resource for people and organizations that want to study and apply an ethical approach to decision-making. The center supports research, assists faculty in integrating ethics into their courses and helps businesses, schools, hospitals and other organizations put ethics to work. Ethics center programs include: biotechnology and health care ethics; business ethics; K-12 character education; philosophical questions in applied ethics, public policy and government ethics, and emerging issues in ethics. www.scu.edu/ethics

About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,060 students' rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the fourth-highest graduation rate among all U.S. masters' universities, California's oldest higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. More information is online at www.scu.edu.