Protecting consumer data isn’t just a legal duty — it’s an ethical responsibility that demands transparency, accountability, and stronger cybersecurity beyond compliance.
With its focus on excellence and ethical leadership, the Wilson Endowment supports UNI’s Beta Gamma Sigma chapter, enabling top business students to pursue opportunities such as the Ethical Leadership Credential and national conferences. Recent alum Reagan Lommell, ’25, who works in Technology Risk Assurance at Ernst & Young in Minneapolis, discusses how these opportunities influenced her UNI experience and continue to guide her early career.
Nicholas Sars joins UNI as the second Wilson Ethics Fellow, to expand ethics education across campus, part of David Wilson’s $25 million gift to the Wilson College of Business. He aims to equip students with critical thinking skills and ethical decision-making.
Leadership is tough in today's changing world. To succeed, leaders must embrace new ideas, take risks, and accept failure. However, some take shortcuts to stay ahead, leading to many scandals. This raises the question: can innovation and integrity coexist?
The University of Northern Iowa recently held an inaugural ethics workshop for faculty. Co-hosted by Robert Earle and John Preston, this three-day event offered engaging lectures, valuable ethics lessons and collaborative discussions aimed at enriching ethics education across campus.
Innovation is happening at a never-before-seen pace. While there’s a rush toward something new and exciting, the role of ethics in the decision-making process can take a back seat and be undervalued, leaving businesses open to risk.
“It’s all about the money!” Sports fans probably recently read or heard sportswriters and commentators employ this “hoary chestnut” (a phrase that is itself a cliché) in the wake of the collapse of the venerable Pacific-12 conference. For once, a cliché is apt. The scramble for desirable Pac-12 teams (sorry, Oregon State and Washington State fans) was all about the money.
