The NEP creates and fosters a sustainable and evolving community of researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers devoted to improving how we identify and implement ethics education. Our research investigates institutional messaging, instructor and student experiences, and practices of ethics education. Our goals are to create high-impact tools for assessing ethics education and to provide educational resources that meet the needs of a changing world.

Seed grants from the Spencer Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, along with financial commitments from our partner institutions, have enabled the NEP to build a solid foundation for ongoing research. Our mixed-methods research projects have investigated the institution, instructor, and student perspective of ethics instruction, both in and outside of the classroom. To date, NEP has conducted research on multiple campuses and developed new analytical tools that promise to overhaul the way we view and study ethics education in higher education.