<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(103,78,167)"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">An Ethics Institute colloquy with Prof. Michelle Ouellette, APR</span></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f498a672-7fff-bcde-e293-1abc2ccf9500"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, May 18, 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Noon over Zoom (link to follow)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institute for Ethics in Public Life</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are under stress. Suicide has become the second leading cause of death for 10- to 24-year-olds. The CDC just reported that drug overdose deaths hit a record high last year.  Stoked by extreme partisan divides, once apolitical issues have become fodder for argument, judgment and personal attacks. Under stress, according to the World Health Organization, we are quicker to jump to conclusions, less apt to trust others, and more likely to believe conspiracy theories.Our empathy decreases. So does our ability to reason.What does this mean for us, the organizations where we work, and the institutions that serve us? What are the prospects for truth-telling and trust-building in such an environment? Join Michelle Ouellette in the Ethics Institute’s closing conversation of spring semester 2022, as she leads us through these questions and suggests that emotions such as awe may be a tonic for our times.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Colloquies at the Ethics Institute are open to all members of the SUNY Plattsburgh community.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information, contact Dr. Jonathan Slater, director of the Institute for Ethics in Public Life at <a href="mailto:slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu">slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu</a>.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Institute for Ethics in Public Life is a program of SUNY Plattsburgh with additional support made possible through generous gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(103,78,167)"></div></div>