Cal Turner Program
CTP Mission
The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions develops ethical leaders through cross-professional collaboration and deep learning cohorts. We equip community leaders with courage, wisdom, and purpose to address pressing ethical challenges.
We promote moral leadership as involving:
- Vocational commitment; ongoing discernment, improvisation, and learning
- Passion and compassion
- Reflection on personal experience
- An integrated, cultivated inner life
- Interpersonal skills
- Adaptive leadership that tackles complex social problems
- Community connection and collaborative action
- Risk; involving service, sacrifice, struggle, and more
- Naming moral issues as moral
- Requiring diversity of perspective, professionally and otherwise
- Seeing the bigger picture of everyday actions
- Engagement with moral exemplars
- Awareness of situational variables and biases
- Moral reminders and fellowship for moral resilience
Photos by Joe Howell
Collaborations
The Cal Turner Program collaborates with many organizations at Vanderbilt, within Nashville and across the nation. Some of our partnerships are:
- Carpenter Program, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Courageous Voices in Action
- Nashville Conflict Resolution Center
- Tennesseans Against the Death Penalty
- The School for Contemplative Living
- The Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University
- The Vanderbilt University Community Engagement Collaborative
- The Office of Health Equity at VUMC