FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
 

City National Bank/Steven J. Day Lectureship
to be delivered Friday by Thomas W. Dunfee

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Thomas W. Dunfee, a vice dean/professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver the City National Bank/Steven J. Day Lectureship Friday, April 4 at the Pullman Plaza Hotel in Huntington.

The lectureship, which started in 1998, is made possible through funds provided by City National Bank to Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business, which is sponsoring the event. Dunfee will speak from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in the hotel’s Virginia Room. The event is free to the public.

“Anyone interested in business ethics and social responsibility is encouraged to attend,” said Larry Templeton, Director of Development in the Lewis College of Business.

Dunfee, a 1963 Marshall University honor graduate, is the Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received his J.D. in 1966 from New York University and his L.L.M. (Master of Laws) in 1969, also from New York University.

At the University of Pennsylvania, Dunfee is chair of the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, whose 18 full-time and 24 affiliated faculty teach courses related to business law and ethics.

From 2000 to 2003, he was responsible for the Wharton Undergraduate Division. Dunfee served as president of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (1989-90), was editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal (1975-77), and received the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Excellence from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in 1991. He also served as president of the Society for Business Ethics in 1995 and 1996.

Dunfee’s current research interests focus on a social contract-based approach to business and professional ethics and global business ethics. He has been a visiting professor at several universities and has lectured at many European and Asian universities. He also is the author of several books and has written many published articles.

While at Marshall, Dunfee was a member of the debate team and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Marshall University Alumni Association in 1994.

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