Rate My Professor Elaine Englehardt

Elaine Englehardt is the Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University. She earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Communication from the University of Utah in 1994, an M.A. in Communication and Ethics from Brigham Young University in 1984, and a B.A. in Communication from Brigham Young University in 1974. Englehardt began her career at Utah Valley University in 1976 as a Journalism/English Instructor and Student Newspaper Advisor, advancing to Assistant Professor of Philosophy from 1984 to 1989, Associate Professor from 1989 to 1993 with tenure, and Professor since 1993. In 2005, she received the Distinguished Professor designation from the UVU Board of Trustees. She has held key administrative positions including Special Assistant to the President from 2003 to 2012, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs from 2003 to 2005, Vice President for Scholarship and Outreach from 2001 to 2003, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1996 to 2001, Director of the Integrated Studies Program from 1998 to 1999, and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics from 1992 to 1998. Her courses include Ethics and Values, Business Ethics, Media Ethics, Legal Ethics, Bioethics, and Political Philosophy, delivered via the EDNET broadcast program from 1990 to 2012, serving over 15,000 students.

Englehardt has served as Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo in 2013, Olsson Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business from 2004 to 2005, and in the Helsinki School of Economics MBA program from 2004 to 2009. She is currently an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University and was President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum from 2018 to 2022, as well as co-editor of the journal Teaching Ethics from 2008 to 2014 with Michael Pritchard. Her publications include Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal (Springer, 2021, with Michael Pritchard), Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 6th Edition (Cengage, 2019, with C.E. Harris, Michael Pritchard, and Ray James), Ethics Across the Curriculum: Pedagogical Perspectives (Springer, 2018, edited with Michael Pritchard), and Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making: Mental Models, Milgram and the Problem of Obedience (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with Patricia Werhane et al.). Notable awards encompass the Wilson Sorensen Lifetime Achievement Award from UVU in 2020, Theodore M. Hesburgh Award in 2001, Distinguished Faculty Award from the UVU Foundation Board in 2010, and CASE Utah Professor of the Year in 1989. She advanced Ethics Across the Curriculum through the Center for the Study of Ethics, securing a 1998 FIPSE grant and aiding the founding of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum in 2000.