About us
About the Center
The Center for Collaboration and Ethics promotes and facilitates transdisciplinary projects relevant to the Valley. The Center serves as a hub, bringing together different disciplines within academia as well as different stakeholders and groups from the wider community around shared ethical concerns. The Center also pursues projects which help various local communities develop their own capacities to address ethical issues. In this way, the enter contributes to UTRGV’s aim of serving as an anchor institution in the Valley.
About UTRGV
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions. UTRGV describes in their vision statement how they want to make an impact: “To be one of the nation’s leaders in higher education, its premier Hispanic-serving institution, and a highly engaged bilingual university, with exceptional educational, research, and creative opportunities that serve as catalysts for transformation in the Rio Grande Valley and beyond.” – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vision Statement, History of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
The Center is part of the School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement.