Ethics Bowl
The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) combines the excitement and fun of a competitive tournament with a valuable educational experience for undergraduate students. Recognized widely by educators, the IEB has received special commendation for excellence and innovation from the American Philosophical Association, and received the 2006 American Philosophical Association/Philosophy Documentation Center's 2006 prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. The format, rules, and procedures of the IEB all have been developed to model widely acknowledged best methods of reasoning in practical and professional ethics.
Ten regional ethics bowls will take place during the fall of 2008. The top scoring 32 teams in the ten regional ethics bowls will be invited to take part in the IEB National Championship Competition held on Thursday March 5, 2009 in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE). To register, please contact the director of your regional ethics bowl, either through their online registration form or via phone or email (listed below). You may pay the registration fee directly to your regional EB director, or include your payment with Regional Ethics Bowl Form that all participating teams must send to APPE.
Regional EB Directors can send the collected registration fees to APPE along with the Regional Director's Payment Form. Please fill out this form upon completion of your regional competition to let APPE know the final list of teams who competed and their ranking.
If you have any questions, please contact us at csep@iit.edu, or you may contact the APPE main office at appe@indiana.edu.
Dates, locations and registration information for each of the ten regional ethics bowls is listed immediately below:
1. Southeast: Saturday November 15, 2008
Saint Petersburg College
Epicenter, Largo, FL
Registration
site
Contact person: Deni Elliott at (727) 873-4850, elliott@stpt.usf.edu
2. Mid-Atlantic: Saturday November 15, 2008
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Event
webpage
Direct
link to online registration
Contact person: Lance Westerlund at (919) 843-5641, lancew@unc.edu
3. Northeast: Saturday November 15, 2008
Villanova University (Philadelphia)
Contact person: Mark Doorley at (610) 519-4738, mark.doorley@villanova.edu
4. Upper Midwest: Saturday November 15, 2008
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
Contact person: Sandra Borden at (269) 387-0362, sandra.borden@wmich.edu
5. Central States: Saturday November 01, 2008
Marian College (Indianapolis, IN)
Registration site: www.marian.edu/ethicsbowl
Contact person: Vicki Carson at (317) 955-6132, vcarson@marian.edu
6. Texas: Saturday November 15, 2008
Saint Mary’s University (San Antonio, TX)
Registration
More information available at: http://www.skipperweb.org/ethicsbowl/
Contact person: Robert Skipper at (210) 431-6857, robert@skipperweb.org
or rskipper@stmarytx.edu
7. Wasatch: Saturday November 15, 2008
Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
Contact person: Richard Greene at (801) 626-711, RGREENE@weber.edu
8. Rocky Mountain: Saturday November 15, 2008
University of Colorado, Boulder
Contact person: Sheralee Brindell at (303) 492-3392, brindell@colorado.edu
9. California: Saturday December 06, 2008
National Hispanic University (San Jose, CA)
Contact person: Michael Jordan at (408)-273-2703
mjordan@nhu.edu
10. Northwest:
November 15, 2008
Boeing
Corporation Commercial Airplane Corporate Campus in Tukwila, Washington
Contact person: Ed Carr, Boeing, 253-709-4682, edward.c.carr@boeing.com
Click here to view the cases for the 2008 regional competitions.
In the IEB, a moderator poses questions to teams of three to five students. Questions may concern ethical problems on wide ranging topics, such as the classroom (e.g. cheating or plagiarism), personal relationships (e.g. dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g. engineering, law, medicine), or social and political ethics (e.g. free speech, gun control, etc.) Each team receives a set of ethical issues in advance of the competition, and questions posed to teams at the competition are taken from that set. A panel of judges evaluates answers; rating criteria are intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.
For more information, contact:
Robert F. Ladenson
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone (312) 567-3474
Fax (312) 567-3016
