The Krea University, Chennai, an upcoming Liberal Arts and Sciences University, and The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values (The Centre) have announced a formal agreement to reimagine and co-create the ethics learning experience for the university’s UG students. The centre would help Krea deliver an innovative ethics curriculum and will start facilitating sessions with the faculty on ethical learning and pedagogy early next year.
The university will offer three-year residential BA Honours and BSc Honours degrees across several disciplines, with strong foundation skills in analytical thinking, ethics, quantitative reasoning and communication. Admissions for the first batch of students went live on November 1, 2018.
It will commence classes for its first batch of UG students in August 2019. The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values is dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. As a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, The Center focuses on the development of interdisciplinary research and programmes in varied fields of knowledge, from science and technology to education and international relations. The programmes emphasise responsibility and examines meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organisations, and societies.
Six Noble Peace laureates including The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu serve as the founding members of the Centre. Since its inception at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009, the centre’s programmes have expanded to eight countries. Speaking on the occasion, Krea University’s VC Sunder Ramaswamy, said: “This partnership will provide an exciting opportunity for young minds at Krea to engage with ethical questions, find their sense of purpose and understand the societal impact of their actions”.