The Ethos Center
Core Values
The Ethos Center programs are grounded in five core values.
- Ensuring ethical engagement, reciprocity, and inclusive access.
- Transforming engineering education through discovery of self as an agent of positive social change with a sociotechnical mindset.
- Honoring the lived experiences and knowledge of others, especially marginalized communities, through cultural and intellectual humility.
- Opting for just and sustainable technologies that ensure human dignity and rights.
- Supporting co-created, transdisciplinary
collaborations driven by community assets and aspirations and their sociocultural context.
Frameworks that guide our partnership practices, curriculum, and technical R&D:
The following will continue to frame our work, but unlike values/principles, these may change as our field develops, learns, and grows.
- Fair Trade Learning and Community-Based Global Learning
- Human Rights and SDG’s
- Community-driven Knowledge to Action
- The KEEN Entrepreneurial Mindset Framework
- Engineering for Social Justice Criteria
- Human Centered Design
- Equity Centered Design
- Civic and Community Engagement in Catholic and Marianist Universities