Let’s create the spark, so each one of us can assist in meeting the increasingly complex challenges of the global business environment. Initially, in the college classroom and later inside the business boardroom, we should adopt practices that strengthen ethical performance, accountability, and responsibility.
As scholars, we can develop practices that we can later adopt and enforce as professionals. We can work to advance responsible business practices for the global common good.
The object of an ethical education is to allow intelligent participation in life, to bring various groups into such constant interaction that no individual, or group, can presume to live independently of others.
To live and function successfully in our world, an education must include learning from teachers whose backgrounds, beliefs, and perspectives reflect diversity. While young people need to understand their own background, how to achieve this is an ongoing process.
With technology playing an ever-increasing role in our lives, a degree in information technology could be a smart investment in your future.
The journey to true diversity requires communication, patience, and endurance. It is a journey we must all take together, as we turn rhetoric into reality. How we handle the process and deal with the resulting changes will ultimately help define the values of our communities.
As we continue to face these and other challenges of the twenty-first century, I look forward to taking this journey with all of you. Capitalism will die when the working class cannot afford to pay for products.