The Assignment . You are the CFO ( or accountant) FREDDIE MAC (2003) You are supposed to design a civic engagement program to restore your company's damaged image and reputation. This assignment seeks to assess your ability to apply your knowledge (auditing/accounting/business) to make this world a better place through a civic engagement program that you will design. Be creative BUSAVA A E ta LA Shapes Arranged Slys e Replace Select Oltate Shane facts D 10 Font Paragraph Drawing 19 Voice De Below are some of the questions you may consider answering as you design the program . What was the ethical dilemma that you faced as the CFO. What is an ethical dilemma? What are the two major types of constrains on decisions that involve ethical issues? Which professional ethics standards did you violate What led you to select the particular program you selected. How is your program going to repair your company's damaged reputation? How is your program going to benefit society? Rubric . Attached is the rubric for the assignment Your answer should be no more than two pages. Civic Engagement Learning Objectives Learns from and values diversity of community and culture Recognizes the special place of the African American experience to DSU as an HBCU and in the US at large Analyzes knowledge of self and local, national and global societies and cultures Engages in civic involvement and reflection on this involvement Analyzes issues relating to responsible citizenship, social concerns and related moral and ethical issues Glossary Civie identity - When one sees her or himself as an active participant in society with a strong commitment and responsibility to work with others towards public purposes Civic life - The public life of the citizen concerned with the affairs of the community and nation as contrasted with private or personal life, which is devoted to the pursuit of private and personal interests Politics. A process by which a group of people, whose opinions or interests might be divergent, reach collective decisions that are generally regarded as binding on the group and enforced as common policy. Political life enables people to accomplish goals they could not realize as individuals. Politics necessarily arises whenever groups of people live together, since they must always reach collective decisions of one kind or another Civic / community contexts Organizations, movements, campaigns, a place or locus where people and/or living creatures inhabit, which may be defined by a locality (school , national park, nonprofit organization, town, stato, nation) or defined by shared identity Gie, African-Americans North Carolinians, Americans, the Republican or Democratic Party, refugees, etc.). In addition, contexts for civic engagement may be defined by a variety of approaches intended to benefit a person, group, or community, including community service or volunteer work, academic work Evaluators are encouraged to assign a zero to any work sample or collection of work that does not meet Beginning (call one) level performance Diversity of community and culture African American experience Beginning/Unsatisfactory Developing Satisfactory Proficient Exemplary Advanced Expresses individual States the differences Reflects on how own Adjusts own attitudes attitudes and beliefs from between own attitudes attitudes and beliefs are and beliefs because of a one-sided view. Is and beliefs and those of different from those of working within and indifferent or resistant to other cultures and other cultures and learning from diversity what can be leamed from communities Exhibits communities Exhibits of communities and diversity of communities little curiosity about what curiosity about what can cultures Promotes and cultures. can be learned from be learned from diversity others' engagement with diversity of communities of communities and diversity and cultures cultures Struggles to describe the Describes elements of Explains the significance Analyzes multiple elements of the African the African American of the African American intersections between the American experience and experience and their experence to society and African American their relationship to significance to society the culture at large and experience and the larger society and culture and culture draws some connection society and culture to their own lived Deftly connects their experience . own lived experience to this larger experience in multiple ways Begins to identify Builds basic connections Analyzes knowledge Connects and extends knowledge from one's from one's own academic from one's own academic knowledge from one's own academic study study/field/discipline study field/discipline own academic strady field/discipline that is to civic engagement and making relevant field/discipline to civic relevant to civic to one's own connections to CIVIC engagement and to one's engagement and to one's participation in civic life, engagement and to one's own participation in civic own participation in civic politics, and government own participation in civic life, politics, and life, politics, and life, politics, and government government povemment Has experimented with Has clearly participated Demonstrates Demonstrates some civic activities but in civically focused independent experience independent experience shows little internalized actions and produces in civic action with and shows initiative in Self, society and culture Civic involvement understanding of their basic reflections or reflective insights or team leadership of aims or effects and little descriptions of how these analysis about the aims complex of multiple commitment to future actions may benefit and accomplishments of civic engagement action individual(s) or one's actions activities, accompanied communities by reflective insights or analysis about the aims and accomplishments of one's actions Struggles to construct a Explains the basic Provides multiple well Deeply analyzes the rationale for how civic rationale for how civic reasoned rationales for benefits of civic engagement provides engagement benefits the the benefits of CIVIC engagement to society benefits to the individual individual and society engagement to society and the individual and and society but does not expand this and the individual draws multiple into their personal Connects these rationales appropriate connections experience at a basic level to their to their own experiences, own experiences Responsible citizenship Rubric evaluation criteria were adapted from VALUE rubrics published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities