The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics promotes critical reflection and constructive debate about the most important ethical questions: What is right, just, and good, and what must human beings do — now and in the future — to meet their moral responsibilities? The Institute seeks to explore with DePauw University students the moral challenges of the 21st Century and encourage them not to remain silent in the face of injustice.

A generous gift from Janet W, Prindle '58 funded the construction of a state of-the-art facility that houses the Institute which bears her name. Standing on the knoll of an old quarry site that is being reclaimed as an extension of the DePauw University campus, the Institute's beautiful natural setting provides an inspirational environment for gatherings to mine new veins of research, dialogue and teaching that probe the issues and concerns of ethical theory and practice.