Santa Clara University hosted a two-day Ethics Camp for politicians and public officials in June. Counselors, sporting “moral compasses” around their necks, led participants in a range of activities designed to shed light on the moral and economic implications of recent ethical lapses in business and government. Campers included city council members and ethics officers, school district employees, and other public officials.

An article in The New York Times titled “At Ethics Camp, Not-So-Tall Tales From the Dark Side” covered the event in detail. Judy Nadler, a former mayor of Santa Clara and a senior fellow at the university's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, which hosted and sponsored the event, said the camp is a creative effort to establish "a culture of ethics and accountability."