Curriculum Emphasis on
Social Responsibility (CESR)
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CESR focuses significant efforts in the business and society area to enhance our approaches to integrating business ethics and corporate social responsibility throughout our curriculum. Our priorities are building curricula, coordinating senior-level capstone classes, raising funds and evaluating potential integration of service-learning into the curriculum.
Dr. Donna Sockell is the director of this program. Donna, formerly of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University and the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, has extensive experience teaching ethics and social responsibility to graduate and undergraduate students as well as industry groups. At the Leeds School, Donna has been responsible for designing and delivering an introduction to business classes that incorporates these issues into a freshmen level curriculum, as well as a cross-functional corporate social responsibility course at the junior level. (Email = Donna.Sockell@colorado.edu, Office = 303-492-3937)
The Associate Director of CESR is Francy Milner, JD, is an experienced employment lawyer and corporate trainer. She is the former Assistant General Counsel for Compliance at Coors Brewing Company. Francy has taught the MBA-level Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility courses here at Leeds for a number of years. She co-authored one of the textbooks for the junior level course, and teaches multiple sections of that course. Francy also serves as Leeds’ representative on the steering committee of the Colorado Ethics and Compliance Exchange, which was formed to promote the exchange of ideas and best practices in corporate governance, compliance and ethics among Colorado’s businesses and universities. (Email = Francy.Milner@colorado.edu, Office = 303-735-4358)
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