first year students experience forrester

On board for the fall 2006 semester is 2005 New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Doug Forrester. Forrester is teaching a First Seminar titled, "Can What is Morally Wrong be Politically Right?" on Tueasdy evenings.

The First Seminar is a part of the First Year Experience, a comprehensive program of academic and co-curricular activities promoting the successful transition of entering students to college life at TCNJ. The First Seminar enables first-year students to be engaged in an intellectually exciting and challenging experience with a distinguished instructor in a small, personal, seminar-style class.

"As an experienced public servant and prominent New Jersey businessman, we are grateful for the insight that Mr. Forrester will bring to class discussions,” said President Gitenstein. “His course promises to be intellectually stimulating and academically challenging. We are fortunate to have Mr. Forrester’s participation on our campus.”

"Can What is Morally Wrong be Politically Right?" will consider the difficulty of dealing with and reconciling different worldviews in a pluralist society. Forrester’s seminar will raise questions such as:

• How do we determine right and wrong? 
• How should these determinations legally obligate persons with alternate value systems? 
• By what criteria do we acknowledge the political right of another to do what we believe is morally wrong?

After establishing this theoretical foundation, special attention will be paid to how these questions emerge in the political process, and how public policy is crafted and debated. The seminar readings will include a number of books on ethics and political philosophy.

Doug Forrester is no stranger to the College. He and his wife Andrea also support the Doug and Andrea Forrester Speaker Series on Entrepreneurship for the Public Good, which is a new program through the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and Bonner Scholars Program at the College. The series offers opportunities for students to learn from entrepreneurs and experts on entrepreneurship, featuring entrepreneurs who share their experiences with the campus and community about their innovative work to create and sustain organizations that benefit the public good. For more information, visit the Bonner Center online at www.tcnj.edu/~bonner.