The Ethics Center at Fresno State is accepting nominations for the 2019 Ethical Leadership Award.

The recipient should inspire a passion for stewardship and ethical leadership in Fresno State students.

Criteria for this award includes:

• The awardee should have substantial accomplishments of excellence in ethical leadership, stewardship, entrepreneurial innovation and community engagement. But the awardee need not be at the end of his/her career.
• The awardee should have some tangible connection with Fresno, Fresno State, and the Central Valley, and the experience of diverse students at Fresno State. But the awardee need not be a Fresno State alum or a resident of the Central Valley.
• The awardee should have a demonstrated ability to communicate a vision of ethics, leadership, and stewardship and be able to inspire our diverse students in concrete ways.

The winner will be asked to provide a lecture to students and will be honored at a luncheon held in conjunction with the Better Business Bureau's annual Ethical Business Awards.

Past honorees have included Jim Boren (2018), executive director of Fresno State's Institute for Media and Public Trust and retired executive editor of The Fresno Bee; and Richard Johanson (2017) chairman emeritus of the Fresno Business Council and founder of Johanson Transportation Services, LLC.

To make a nomination, send an email explaining how the nominee fits the above criteria to Dr. Andrew Fiala, director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State, ethicscenter@mail.fresnostate.edu.

Nominations are due by Thursday, Jan. 31.