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Agnes Scott president speaks at Darlington
Sep 17, 2007 12:00 AM
By Tannika King - Faculty
Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College, addressed Upper School students and faculty members Wednesday, Sept. 19 during the weekly chapel service.
Kiss became the institution’s eighth president on Aug. 1 of last year, previously spending 10 years at Duke University as Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and an associate professor of the practice of political science and philosophy.
“We are thrilled that Dr. Kiss was able to come to Darlington and speak to our student body today,” said Sam Moss, dean of college guidance at Darlington. “She is a dynamic and exciting woman who is passionate about ethical decision-making and leadership, honor and integrity, spiritual and civic engagement, and the leadership opportunities and challenges facing women in the 21st century. Her visit is a continuation of a long-standing connection between Darlington and Agnes Scott, in that our founding headmaster, Dr. James Ross McCain, left Darlington to go to Agnes Scott, where he served for 28 years as Agnes Scott’s second president.”
Kiss graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College in 1983, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was Davidson’s first female Rhodes Scholar. She received both a bachelor’s and doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University in England.
Prior to becoming the founding director of the Kenan Institute, Kiss taught at Princeton University for eight years and at Randolph-Macon College and Deep Springs College. She has held fellowships at the Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, the National Humanities Center and Melbourne University’s Centre on Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
Specializing in moral and political philosophy, Kiss has published on moral judgment and education, human rights, ethic conflict and nationalism, feminist theory, and justice in the aftermath of human rights violations. She has spoken about ethics, moral education and academic integrity to audiences around the country, and has developed and led interactive ethics workshops for an array of groups, including middle school students, undergraduates, university staff, community leaders, business people and elected officials.
At the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Kiss helped build a university-wide initiative to support the study and teaching of ethics and to promote moral reflection and commitment in personal, professional, community and civic life.
At Duke, Kiss also served as interim director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy; co-director of the Humanitarian Challenges at Home and Abroad FOCUS Program, and as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Academic Council. She is on the board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and has served as vice chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of Davidson College, as well as on the boards of the Center for Academic Integrity and the Durham Nativity School.
Kiss became the institution’s eighth president on Aug. 1 of last year, previously spending 10 years at Duke University as Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and an associate professor of the practice of political science and philosophy.
“We are thrilled that Dr. Kiss was able to come to Darlington and speak to our student body today,” said Sam Moss, dean of college guidance at Darlington. “She is a dynamic and exciting woman who is passionate about ethical decision-making and leadership, honor and integrity, spiritual and civic engagement, and the leadership opportunities and challenges facing women in the 21st century. Her visit is a continuation of a long-standing connection between Darlington and Agnes Scott, in that our founding headmaster, Dr. James Ross McCain, left Darlington to go to Agnes Scott, where he served for 28 years as Agnes Scott’s second president.”
Kiss graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College in 1983, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was Davidson’s first female Rhodes Scholar. She received both a bachelor’s and doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University in England.
Prior to becoming the founding director of the Kenan Institute, Kiss taught at Princeton University for eight years and at Randolph-Macon College and Deep Springs College. She has held fellowships at the Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, the National Humanities Center and Melbourne University’s Centre on Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
Specializing in moral and political philosophy, Kiss has published on moral judgment and education, human rights, ethic conflict and nationalism, feminist theory, and justice in the aftermath of human rights violations. She has spoken about ethics, moral education and academic integrity to audiences around the country, and has developed and led interactive ethics workshops for an array of groups, including middle school students, undergraduates, university staff, community leaders, business people and elected officials.
At the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Kiss helped build a university-wide initiative to support the study and teaching of ethics and to promote moral reflection and commitment in personal, professional, community and civic life.
At Duke, Kiss also served as interim director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy; co-director of the Humanitarian Challenges at Home and Abroad FOCUS Program, and as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Academic Council. She is on the board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and has served as vice chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of Davidson College, as well as on the boards of the Center for Academic Integrity and the Durham Nativity School.
