Michael B. Kim Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership

The Michael B. Kim Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership inspires future global leaders through a curriculum designed for students who will shape the world with integrity and vision.

Cultivating a quality of mind, heart, and practice, the Institute offers an innovative residential liberal arts experience centered on ethics in action. At the heart of the Institute’s work is a cross-disciplinary and practice-based approach that understands ethical impact and civic engagement as crucial to the work of the liberal arts.

• A commitment to ethical fields of inquiry across the liberal arts teaches students to address and evaluate competing goods and the consequences of choices in a global context.
• A holistic approach to ethical inquiry builds on a residential model of the liberal arts and positions Haverford students, faculty, and staff to respond uniquely to the ethical challenges of our world through day-to-day living.
• Scholarship, coursework, experiential learning, and collaborative action go hand in hand, transforming theory into practice; and ethical inquiry into participation and leadership.

The Institute draws on the scholarship of faculty and students across the arts, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences, offering traditional and innovative coursework in these areas, while building on a broad network of expertise locally and globally.

The Institute will be housed in a new building that will create an aesthetically alive, visible, and inclusive intellectual forum. The new Institute building will contain classrooms, faculty offices, research spaces, and meeting rooms, as well as a space to host larger public events.