Bishop Center Mission Statement
The Wally and Louise Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership promotes the study and practice of good leadership through interdisciplinary research, teaching and experiential learning across USF St. Petersburg’s curriculum. The Center develops and offers academic courses, workshops, and programs to help our students and other program participants understand the challenges, opportunities, and rewards associated with ethical leadership.
Good leadership is defined as being both effective and ethical. Accordingly, good leadership accomplishes intended, adaptive change and is grounded in and bound by principles of practical and professional ethics. Challenges often occur when one or the other element, effectiveness or morality, is missing or when these elements seem to be in conflict. The Bishop Center is dedicated to the premise that, although such challenges are ever present, the study and practice of ethical leadership can be encouraged through interdisciplinary research, teaching and experiential learning.
