2012-2013 Presidential Colloquium - Adding Value: Exploring the Means and the End

As posted on the Rutland Institute for Ethics webpage: “The theme of this year’s Presidential Colloquium, “Adding Value: Exploring the Means and the End,” was chosen with an eye to complementarity during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of integration at Clemson. The theme is intentionally broad so that it can encompass discussion of the ways in which inclusion or diversity enriches an organization along with other ways of adding value, e.g., values-based leadership, innovation, promoting the arts, or encouraging entrepreneurial thinking and activity. In some cases, adding value is a project undertaken quite deliberately; in others it is an unintended but most welcome result.”

So far this year two colloquium events have occurred.



Kenneth Majer

First, on September 19^th on campus at the Self Auditorium of STI, Kenneth Majer spoke on “The Role of Leadership and Culture When Building a World-Class Organization.” He addressed a nearly full crowd of interested students, faculty and staff and engaged in an active Q&A at the conclusion.

Majer is a renowned consultant and speaker and is the author of “Values-Based Leadership: A Revolutionary Approach to Business Success and Personal Prosperity.” Majer has twice addressed White House conferences and is a Resource Speaker for Vistage International, the world’s largest CEO member organization. He has served as adviser to the Leadership Institute for Entrepreneurs at the University of San Diego, and as a professor/administrator at Indiana University and the University of California-San Diego.

Majer also spoke as part of The Downtown Speaker Series to a luncheon group of about 30 at the Commerce Club in downtown Greenville. His lecture for that event was titled “How to Build a Values-Based Culture.” 

The Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics appreciatively recognizes the events co-hosts/sponsors: the Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Richard H. Pennell Center for Real Estate Development. 





Dr. Troy Jollimore

Second, on October 24^th, also at the Self Auditorium, Troy Jollimore spoke on “Educating the Imagination.”  Jollimore, currently a professor at California State University at Chico, received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. Most recently named a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference of 2012, he’s authored essays on film and philosophy.

Dr. Troy Jollimore studied in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1999. Before studying at Princeton, he was an undergraduate at the University of King’s College and in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After receiving his Ph.D. he taught at Georgetown University and the University of California, Davis, before coming to California State University, Chico.

He was named the Outstanding Professor at CSU Chico for 2009-2010, and was a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center in 2006/07 and at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2012. He has authored or co-authored several essays on philosophy and

fi lm, which have appeared in books including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Philosophers on Film (Routledge), The Big Lebowski and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell), and Bioethics at the Movies (John Hopkins University Press). His philosophical monographs include On Loyalty (Routledge, 2012), and Love’s Vision (Princeton, 2011). The latter was recently positively reviewed in the journal Ethics and described as “delightfully written and philosophically ambitious.” He is also a poet, and his most recent collection of poetry is At Lake Scugog (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2011). His fi rst collection, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 2006. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Washington Post, Exile Quarterly, and elsewhere.

The Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics appreciatively recognizes the event co-host/sponsor: the Department of Philosophy and Religion.