Love in the University: Moral Development and Moral Orientation

Should moral education be an integral part of undergraduate education? Although we agree with Derek Bok that every college needs to debate this question, we do not believe it should be the threshold question. Before we talk about whether moral development should be an option for students or an integral part of the university, we need to answer the prior question. Do we even agree about what “moral development” means or what fostering it entails? Although higher education scholars often assume that we do, we contend that we do not. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.