Elaine E. Englehardt - Biographical Paragraph

Elaine E. Englehardt is Special Assistant  to the President at Utah Valley State College and a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. She has taught ethics, philosophy and communication classes at UVSC for the past thirty years. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Communication and Philosophy. As Special Assistant to the President, Englehardt oversees all federal appropriations.

The past year, she was responsible for obtaining over $2 million in federal resources. Additionally as supervisor of Grants, Sponsored Research and Foundations, she was instrumental in over $25,000. These duties include coordinating needs with college administrators and Utah Senators Orrin Hatch, Robert Bennett and Congressperson Chris Cannon.

Currently in her administrative assignments she works with the nationally award winning Center for the Study of Ethics, including over 16 projects associated with the Center. She recently returned as the Olsson Senior Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. As a professor and scholar, her specialty is Business and Organizational Ethics. She is also a Visiting Professor in the Masters of Business Administration School at Helsinki School of Economics. Englehardt recently stepped down as Vice President for scholarship and outreach at UVSC where she supervised Undergraduate Research and Scholarship including the Institutional Review Board, copyright; technology transfer/patents; presidential faculty scholarships; and undergraduate student scholarship and research.

She supervised all international affairs including agreements with the INS and SEVIS procedures; travel abroad; recruiting and international advising. She was responsible for the Woodbury Art Gallery, in scheduling, insurance, fundraising, and events. Her work with the legislative process also directly involves her with the internship process for federal and state placement in senate and congressional offices.

Dr. Englehardt chaired numerous committees including academic policies, broadcast, scholarships, institutional advancement and service learning. For the past twenty years, she has written and directed seven national grants. Four large grants are in ethics education from FIPSE, the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (Department of Education). She is currently director of a FIPSE dissemination grant in AContinuing Ethics Across the Curriculum." Over 500 faculty and approximately 10,000 students annually participate in ethics programs and courses as a result of these grants and Dr. Englehardt's activities. National Endowment for the Humanities has also awarded three large multi-year grants to Dr. Englehardt. These are in interdisciplinary ethics education, including a grant to establish a core course in ethics at UVSC, and a grant for ethics K-12 in several Utah school districts. In the field of Ethics, Dr. Englehardt has brought in over $1 million in federal grants.

She recently completed a three book series with Harcourt College Publishers in Ethics: The Organizational Self and Ethical Conduct: Sunlit Virtue and Shadowed Resistance, and Interpersonal Communication Ethics: Friends, Intimates, Sexuality, Marriage and Family with Harcourt College Publishers in 2001 and Principled Media Ethics, with Wadsworth Publishers in 2002.

Earlier, she published Ethics and Life with Donald Schmeltokopf through Wm C. Brown Publishers. She has additionally published numerous articles. Dr. Englehardt has been foundational in establishing a national organization and journal in ethics. The organization is the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, with over 200 members internationally. The journal is Teaching Ethics and is published twice yearly. Dr. Englehardt has received numerous awards.

She was presented with the nationally acclaimed Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching and Learning (2001). The award was for her programs in Ethics and Ethics Across the Curriculum. Dr. Englehardt also received the Utah Governor's Award for excellence from the Utah Humanities Council. Four times she has received the UVSC Trustees Award for Outstanding Scholarship. She was also given the Distinguished Service Award by the Utah Academy for Sciences, Arts and Letters. Additionally, she was selected as the prestigious Utah Professor of the Year by CASE, The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in Washington, D.C.

As an administrator at UVSC from 2000-2004, she was Vice President for Scholarship and Outreach, supervising over 125 individuals. Prior to this she was Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1995-2000. She founded the Center for the Study of Ethics in 1993 and directed it until 1999. She also founded the Integrated Studies Program and directed it from 1997-99. She was also Interim Dean and Associate Dean for the School of Science, Humanities and Health Sciences at Utah Valley State College.

Known for her broadcast television courses, Dr. Englehardt has participated in the State of Utah's Distance Education program from 1988 to the present teaching two (36 class period) courses on Channel 9 - EDNET. The courses are Ethics and Values and Mass Communication. About 200 students take each Dr. Englehardt's courses every semester. She has been involved in extensive volunteer service. She is a member of the Utah State Judicial Conduct Commission. She also served with Utah Humanities Council for seven years, two years as chair; and with the Utah County Planning and Zoning Commission for ten years, seven years as chair.

She was married to the late Kirk Englehardt, and they are the parents of two adult children, Rich and Kellie.