Elaine Englehardt

laine E. Englehardt is the Distinguished Professor of Ethics and a Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University (UVU). She has taught philosophy, ethics and communication classes at UVU for more than 40 years. She is in her second (three-year) term as President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. She is author of ten books, and has written numerous peer reviewed articles. She has served in various administrative positions at UVU including Vice President, Dean and Director. Her PhD is from the University of Utah. She has written and directed seven multi-year, national grants. Four large grants are in Ethics Across the Curriculum from the Department of Education's FIPSE; and three are in Interdisciplinary Ethics from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her first NEH grant funded the beginning of the Ethics and Values core interdisciplinary course at UVU. From this work, she is considered the founder of the Ethics Across the Curriculum movement. She served on Utah's Judicial Conduct Commission for 8 years, Utah Humanities Council for 7 years and the Utah County Planning and Zoning Commission for 10 years. For 20 years Dr. Englehardt taught the Chanel 9 distance education television course "Ethics and Values" produced by UVU as well as numerous videos on a variety of topics in ethics. She has written and presented almost 200 papers and directed 8 grants.