The new Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship (CEE) at Rockford College was launched in January of 2007 by a $925,000 grant from the BB&T Charitable Foundation.

As our name indicates, CEE’s mission is teaching and research in Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and related fields. In Kaizen, the Center’s newsletter, we will keep you up to date on CEE’s activities—and feature in each issue an exciting and informative interview with a high achiever.

CEE Newsletter

In the premiere issue we interview New York City architect John Gillis. We met with Mr. Gillis in his Boerum Hill home to explore his thoughts on entrepreneurship in the architectural profession, architecture’s standing as an art form, the importance of being passionate about one’s career, courage and artistic integrity.

We also feature five students who won CEE prizes for excellence in writing about Business Ethics, and two Rockford College professors who received CEE development grants for courses in Ethics and in Capitalism in the Modern World.

Publishing this first issue of our newsletter was a team effort in the best possible way. Kudos especially to Virginia Murr for her hard work on the John Gillis interview—and to Christopher Vaughan for his fine work in designing Kaizen’s visual theme and layout.

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