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Dr. Schelling came to the Maryland School of Public Affairs after twenty years at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1991 he was President of the American Economic Association, of which he is a Distinguished Fellow. He was the recipient of the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy and the National Academy of Sciences award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. He served in the Economic Cooperation Administration in Europe and has held positions in the White House and Executive Office of the President, Yale University, the RAND Corporation, and the Department of Economics and Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, health policy, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in public policy and in business.

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By default, the Business Office is primarily responsible for responding to this changing environment. We would like to express a spirit of sympathy and sorrow for those days not long ago when we didn’t have to ask questions and refer to policy. We respectfully request your support and patience as we request clarification or additional documentation in regard to your business transactions. Our requests are in no way intended to question your integrity or subject you to surveillance. We will work with you to clarify the additional documentation necessary to substantiate the business purpose of the transaction as required by the IRS while maintaining a spirit of common sense and reason. Carleton has a strong tradition of responsible spending which is supported and defined by our travel and purchasing policies; we simply need to enhance our standards of documentation.

Recent staff transitions in the Business Office reflect our need to direct more resources to these issues; we have increased the number and nature of our VISA audits and increased the documentation required for check requests. We are here to support and encourage you during this transition; it is not easy for any of us. Ultimately, we hope to bring the same standards of excellence to our administrative functions as have long been in place for our academic program.

Business Office policies can be found on our Web site.

These policies are updated annually based on current regulations and industry standards. They also incorporate faculty and staff feedback to improve clarity and address frequently asked questions.

Thank you for your support. For more information about our policies, please contact Randie Johnson, Purchasing and Risk Manager, x4178 or rajohnso@carleton.edu.

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Rubenstein will discuss the President's Council's recent publication "Human Dignity and Bioethics" (available on the President's Council on Bioethics Web site). This work is a compilation of essays from scholars around the country who were asked to explain their understanding of the concept of human dignity and whether they think it is useful for bioethics. At stake here is the way that policy makers address issues like stem cell research, genetic screening, "heroic" treatment at the end of life, and organ transplantation. Should "protecting human dignity" be a concern in their deliberations? Is there enough agreement on what human dignity is to make this possible? Or would it be better, instead, to avoid use of this contentious and difficult concept?

Rubenstein will explore three different shades of meaning for the term "dignity" that are each relevant to a different sort of ethical conversation. The talk will not present a single theory of dignity or a single set of recommendations for policy. Instead, it will endeavor to map out the landscape of opinions on this issue and highlight the place of various policy choices within that landscape. The goal of this work is to facilitate the debate on issues that confront Americans in the news on a daily basis.

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Thursday, May 8
"The Program on Intergroup Relations: Lessons from a Social Justice Education Program," Thursday at noon in the Alumni Guest House Meeting Room

Charles Behling, Co-Director of The Program on Intergroup Relations and Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan

The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) is a social justice education program on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus which works proactively to promote understanding of intergroup relations inside and outside of the classroom. IGR offers multidisciplinary courses distinguished by their experiential focus, teaching philosophy, and incorporation of dialogical models of communication.

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Thursday, May 15
"Visualizing the Victorian Novel"

Susan Jaret McKinstry, Helen F. Lewis Professor of English

How can we teach old books to new students? How can visual technologies help students understand historical objects? How can one professor's research on the relation between word and image in the Victorian period teach students visual as well as literary analysis? Susan Jaret McKinstry will consider the delights and dangers of one assignment—a visual "serial project"—from her recently retooled class on the Victorian novel. Examples of extraordinary student work will help frame a discussion of the growing role of the visual in our teaching and research.

Gould Library Athenaeum
Noon to 1:30 p.m., with bag lunches provided for 50

Co-sponsored by Gould Library, the Visuality Working Group, and the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching

More information can be found on the LTC Web site.