Alabama Chapter Meeting

September is Ethics Month

“From Out of the Ashes”

 

Tuesday, September 9 at 11:45 a.m.
Alabama Power Metro Auditorium

1313 6th Avenue North, Birmingham

 

Non-members-$20 Students-$10 PRSA AL Chapter Member-FREE

We take cash or check. Please make checks payable to Alabama PRSA

 

Register online http://www.alabamaprsa.org/rsvp.php by Friday, September 5 at noon

(Please be mindful of the deadline for catering purposes)

 

 

March 8, 2006 was a sad day for the Birmingham Southern College campus. Two current students and a former one were arrested and charged for the connection of a string of Alabama church burnings. As Keith Thompson, a Methodist minister who is the college's vice president for institutional advancement, said to the New York Times in 2006, “If we are going to take the credit for the great accomplishments of so many of our alumni, we have to be prepared to take some responsibility for our current students when something like this happens."

 

BSC President Dr. David Pollick knew what needed to be done. He immediately took the reigns and established the Alabama Churches Rebuilding and Restoration Fund while the Student Government Association created a resolution. Money and support came in from all over the United States.

 

 

As an ethics professor for 20 years, Dr. Pollick realizes what you can gain from doing the right thing. With September being PRSA’s Ethics Month, Dr. Pollick will highlight not only the church burnings BSC dealt with but other ethic cases that you can utilize if your company ever has to deal with this type of dilemma.