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This week’s blog post at Ethics Unwrapped explores the ethical concepts that failed to be given proper consideration by Baylor University’s leaders and resulted in “the darkest days in college athletics since the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.” 

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#EthicsUnwrapped: A Holiday Gift for Good

If you’re worried about being on the naughty list, check out these tips to help you get on Santa’s good side.

As part of the Ethic Unwrapped series, the university has released 48 free videos that bring to life the latest theories in behavioral psychology. Each video reveals a surprising reason why even good people do terrible things.

“Most of us want to be good people. By understanding how and why we are influenced to make questionable decisions, we can respond more appropriately when confronted with ethical dilemmas,” explained Ethics Unwrapped’s director Cara Biasucci of the McCombs School of Business.

Everyday Ethics: How UT Austin is Teaching Students to Make Ethical Decisions

How Ethical Are You? Put Your Decision-Making Skills to the Test

Five UT Programs Chaning Education: How Ethics Unwrapped is Taking Longhorn Expertise Beyond the Forty Acres.

Hundreds of professors around the world have already started using Ethics Unwrapped, with top users at New York University, Indiana University, Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University and the University of South Wales in Australia.

Ethics Unwrapped by the numbers:

48 free videos with teaching tools to explain a specific concept of behavioral ethics

360,000+ YouTube views to date

92 percent of students surveyed find the videos helpful in understanding complex ethics concepts

500+ universities have used the Ethics Unwrapped videos and teaching materials

50+ organizations — from city governments and Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, think tanks, nonprofits, and more — have contacted EU to ask for permission to use the materials.

Help give the gift of #EthicsUnwrapped this year by sharing this message with your friends and educators this season.

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A big shout-out to our director, Cara Biasucci, who will be presenting tomorrow at the 16th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum in Arizona! She will be showing one of our latest videos and will be discussing Ethics Unwrapped and the cross-campus ethics program at UT.