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David Schultz, the author of more than 30 books and 100 articles on various aspects of professional ethics and David has done training sessions for hundreds of organizations, including Fortune 500 businesses joins Enterprise Radio.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest David Schultz discuss the following:
- What is unique about your approach to teaching ethics?
- You have taught business ethics for 15 years, done training for hundreds if not thousands of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, and have also written on the topic. As a result, what have you learned about the state of professional ethics in America?
- So why do good people and organizations do bad things?
- Is there a difference between our personal ethics and the ethics we practice at work?
- So how do we make ethical decision in a postmodern world?
- What do you say to organizations when you do ethics training for them in terms of how they can promote ethically healthy environments?
Duration: 14:50
David Schultz is professor in the political science department at Hamline University, teaching classes in American politics and public policy. From 1999 until 2013, he was Hamline University Professor in the School of Business where he taught doctoral and masters-level students in public administration, non-profit administration, and business administration. Professor Schultz also holds an adjunct appointment at the University of Minnesota law school and teaches election law, state constitutional law, and professional responsibility, and at the Hamline University School of Law.
In 2009 Professor Schultz received his second Fulbright Senior Specialist award to teach in the Department of Public Administration at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2007 he also received a Fulbright to teach election law at the American University Armenia Law School and to consult on administrative law matters, both in anticipation of the parliamentary elections in May, 2007. In 2008 he toured Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland for the U.S. State Department as a speaker on American politics and elections, and in 2012 did the same in Ukraine and Malta. He has also lectured at the American Corners in Budapest, Bratislava, and Moscow.
In 2013 David won the Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award. This national teaching award, given to one professor per year by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), recognizes professors who make outstanding contributions to public policy education.
In 2012 and 2013 David was named a SuperProfessor in the United States by Faculty Row.
Professor Schultz has a Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. (law degree) from the University of Minnesota, an LLM from the University of London (specializing in criminal law and the law of the European Union), M.A.s in political science and philosophy from Rutgers University and SUNY Binghamton respectively, a Masters of Astronomy from James Cook University, and a B.A. in political science and philosophy from SUNY Binghamton. Previously he has taught classes in American politics, political participation, campaigns and elections, urban politics, state and local government, political theory, and constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas), Gustavus Adolphus College, and the University of St Thomas School of Law and Hamline University School of Law.
Professor Schultz currently is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education and also is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Integrity, Election Law Journal, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, and Social Science Studies. David is the former editor for four book series on law, politics, and the media for Peter Lang Publishing and currently edits a series Election Law, Politics, and Theory, for Ashgate Publishing and International Law, Crime, and Politics for Palgrave/MacMillan. He is the author/editor of 28 books, 12 legal treatises, and more than 90 articles on topics including civil service reform, election law, eminent domain, constitutional law, public policy, legal and political theory, and the media and politics. His most recent publications include: Election Law and Democratic Theory (Ashgate), American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief Over Research (Macmillan/Palgrave), Constitutional Law in Contemporary America (Oxford University Press), American Public Service: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.), Evicted! Property Rights and Eminent Domain in America (Praeger Press), and the Encyclopedia of American Law and Criminal Justice (Facts on File, Inc). He has also written books on the media and politics, political advertising, and election law.
In addition to teaching, Professor Schultz was president of Common Cause Minnesota, served as their lobbyist, and twice as the interim executive director. He has served as vice-president of the Minnesota and Texas chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union, and he has also been on the board of directors for numerous non-profit organizations. Previously he served on the National Civic League’s model cities charter revision committee, helping to draft the 8th edition of the Model City Charter, and on the Urban Coalition Board of Directors. He was also a member of the Ramsey County Home Rule Charter Commission.
David is a former city administrator and director of code enforcement in New York State, where he enforced city and state housing codes as well as authored housing codes and served as a local government hearing officer. He also served as a housing and economic planner and a community organizer for a community action agency. Professor Schultz has extensive experience doing local government training and consulting in ethics, management, and leadership.
Professor Schultz is an attorney and member of the Minnesota and United States Supreme Court bar. He has participated in two amicus briefs before the United States Supreme Court and he does extensive pro bono practice in the areas of family and landlord-tenant law, and he practices in the area of election and administrative law. David is a former member of the Ramsey County Bar Association Board of Directors and the Second District Ethics Committee.
David currently is a columnist for Politics in Minnesota and is a former host of “Minnesota Matters,” on Air America Minnesota Radio, and he is a nationally-recognized expert on American politics and election law, public administration, apolitical ethics, money and politics, political participation, and land use law and has been a frequent commentator on television, radio, and in more than 100 domestic and international newspapers and periodicals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Today Show (NBC), ABC News, CBS News, Cox News Service,, Time, Newsweek, Radio Free Europe, National Journal, Congressional Quarterly, La Nouvelle Observateur, L’Express, National Public Radio Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Houston Post, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Light, San Antonio Express News, Channel One, People Magazine, Money, Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer-Press, St. Paul Legal Ledger, Chicago Tribune, St. Cloud Times, Minnesota Public Radio, CNET Radio (San Francisco), Wisconsin Public Radio, WCCO Television, WCCO radio, KSTP radio, KFAN radio, KARE-TV, KSTP television, WWOR radio, ESPN radio, Almanac (public television), and the Hartford Courier.
Links: http://schultzstake.blogspot.com
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