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Ethics for the Community

The Center for Neighborhoods presents a course in ethics for the community.

Ethics is tricky – maintaining professional ethics is a challenge. The first step in addressing this challenge is understanding the ethical rules that go with professionalism.

This course is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (the Code). The six-month course is an explanation of the entire Code.

The individual workshops are stand-alone sessions, while at the same time, the sessions are designed so that they build toward the participants becoming better versed in the Code.

This course is of interest to planners as well as others in the community. Participants can earn ethics or general Certification Maintenance (CM) credits. Each webinar is one CM ethic credit.

The cost is $25/session.

1/21/21: Employment
What should my employer (the community) expect of me?

2/18/21: Communication
As long as information is power – how should we handle and distribute that information?

3/18/21: Misinformation
Of course we should always tell the truth!

4/15/21: Work Product
Which is more important, the process or the outcome?

5/20/21: Responsibilities
Am I my brothers’ keeper?

6/17/21: Aspirations
If you were perfect, in the perfect job, in the perfect community – how would you behave?

7/15/21: TBD
We'll offer one of the earlier sessions that had to be cancelled.

Mellone F. Long, Ph.D., AICP, is the Executive Director of the Center for Neighborhoods and teaches at Cleveland State University. Mellone has been a planner for over twenty years with her doctorate from Clemson University’s Planning Design & the Built Environment Program concentrating in planning ethics. “Ethics is not just a notion; it is the moral way to live life.”

You can choose to attend one or more of the following webinars.