Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competitions
Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competitions
The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowlsm is a tiered competition. During November and December of 2012, ten regional ethics bowls took place at various locations throughout the United States. The top scoring thirty-two teams in the regional ethics bowls have qualified to compete in the Seventeenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Championship.
Seventeenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Championship
The Seventeeth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Championship was held on Thursday, February 28, 2013 in San Antonio, Texas, as a part of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics’ 2013 22nd Annual Meeting. Colleges and universities across the United States and throughout the world who qualified in a regional bowl entered teams of undergraduate students in the national competition. Congratulations to The Seventeenth IEB Championship winner: DePauw University!
The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) is a team competition that combines the excitement and fun of a competitive tournament with an innovative approach to education in practical and professional ethics 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.
In the IEB, each team receives a set of cases which raise issues in practical and professional ethics in advance of the competition and prepare an analysis of each case. At the competition, a moderator poses questions, based on a case taken from that set, 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.) A panel of judges may probe the teams for further justifications and evaluates answers. Rating criteria are intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.
National Ethics Bowl Registration Form
Cases, Rules and Guidelines
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2012-13 Championship Rules (only in PDF) 2013 Championship Rules pdf
2012-13 Championship Schedule Championship Schedule
2012-13 Judge Guidelines (only in PDF) Judge Guidelines
Ethics Bowl Etiquette (only in PDF) Ethics Bowl Etiquette
Judge’s Score Sheets:
2012 EB_Judge’s Score Sheet-Team ONE
2012 EB_Judge’s Score Sheet-Team TWO
Ethics Bowl Judge Training Video Ethics Bowl Judge Training Video
Cases used in the Judge Training Video Cases Video Cases (PDF File)
Regional Cases and Rules
2012 Regional Cases in DOCX 2012 Regional Cases docx
2012 Regional Cases in PDF 2012 Regional Cases pdf
2012 Regional Cases minimum pages (for printing) 2012 Regional Cases minimum pages
Backup location for 2012 Regional Ethics Bowl Cases
2012 Regional Rules in PDF 2012 Regional Rules pdf
Fees & Registration:
- An entry fee for teams competing in a regional competition will be collected by the Regional Director to help defray the cost of the regional competition. The fee for the regional competition may vary with the region and teams must contact the Regional Director to learn what the fee will be.
- In addition to that fee to help defray the costs of the Regional Competition, each school will be assessed a $50 fee, payable to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, to help defray the cost of the National Competition. Some regional directors will include that $50 in the total set of fees collected from the competing regional schools and then forward that $50 to the Association. Others will ask each individual regional school to send that $50 directly to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Schools competing in a regional must confirm with the Regional Director whether the $50 fee is included in the regional fee or whether the school must send the $50 directly to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. APPE Regional Director Fee Form
- A form is provided by the Regional Director for schools to send the $50 directly to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. APPE Regional Team Fee Form
- A regional school will not be eligible to compete in the regional until the $50 fee has been paid.
Regional Competitions:
- Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl
Sacred Heart University
November 10, 2012
Colgate University (champion), coached by Brooks Summerville; SUNY Buffalo State, coached by Julian Cole and Barbara Olsafsky; Villanova University coached by Mark Wilson; Moravian College, coached by Bernie Cantens.
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl<
University of Baltimore
November 10, 2012
Georgetown University (champion), coached by Laura Guidry-Grimes; University of Maryland, Baltimore County, coached by Greg Ealick; St. Mary’s College of Maryland, coached by Michael Taber.
- Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl
St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida
November 10, 2012
U.S. Naval Academy (champion), coached by Shaun Baker; Samford University, coached by Wilton Bunch; University of North Florida, coached by Jonathan Matheson; University of Tampa, coached by Marcus Arvan; The Citadel, coached by Susie Maghakian and Crystal Herring.
- Central States Regional Ethics Bowl
Marian University, Indianapolis, Indiana
November 3, 2012
Taylor University (Champion), coached by Jim Spiegel and Catherine Kerton-Johnson; DePauw University, coached by Marcia McKelligan and Robert Newton; St. Olaf College, coached by Laurel Carrington; Illinois Wesleyan University, coached by Emily Kelahan.
- Upper Midwest Regional Ethics Bowl
Loyola University
December 1, 2012
Ripon College (champion), coached by Deano Pape and Lindsay Blumer; Loyola University Chicago, coached by Bryan Kibbe and Jennifer Parks; Harper College, coached by John Garcia and Brett Fulkerson-Smith; Oakland University, coached by Mark Rigstad and Lisa Campbell.
- Texas Regional Ethics Bowl
St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas
November 17, 2012
Oklahoma Christian University (champion), coached by Jeff Simmons; University of Oklahoma, coached by Breea Bacon, Stephen Ellis and Adrienne Jablonski; Oklahoma City University, coached by Barbara Crandall; University of Arkansas at Little Rock, coached by Allison Merrick and Roxy Green.
- Rocky Mountain Regional Ethics Bowl
University of Colorado, Boulder
November 10, 2012
Metropolitan State University of Denver (champion), coached by Carol Quinn.
- Wasatch Regional Ethics Bowl
Utah State University
November 10, 2012
Westminster College (champion), coached by Jason Goltz; Utah State University, coached by Erica Holberg.
- California Regional Ethics Bowl
University of California, Santa Cruz
December 1, 2012
University of California, Santa Cruz (co-champion), coached by Kyle Robertson; California State University Chico (co-champion), coached by Eric Gampel; San Jose State University, coached by Rita Manning.
- Northwest Regional Ethics Bowl
Seattle University
November 17, 2012
University of British Columbia (champion), coached by Johnna Fisher; Whitworth University, coached by Mike Ingram and Keith Wyma.
For those interested in how teams are scored or for a format to start your own Ethics Bowlsm please feel free to download the forms used in past Intercollegiate Ethics Bowlsm
Past Regional and National Bowl Competition Cases
2012 Championship Cases in PDF 2012 Championship Cases pdf
2011 Regional Cases in PDF 2011 Regional Cases pdf
2011 Championship Cases in PDF 2011 Championship Cases pdf
2010 Regional Cases in PDF 2010 Regional Cases pdf
2010 Championship Cases in PDF 2010 Championship Cases pdf
2009 Regional Cases in PDF 2009 Regional Cases pdf
2009 Championship Cases in PDF 2009 Championship Cases pdf
2008 Regional Cases in PDF 2008 Regional Cases pdf
2008 Championship Cases in PDF 2008 Championship Cases pdf
2007 Regional Cases in PDF 2007 Regional Cases pdf
2007 Championship Cases in PDF 2007 Championship Cases pdf
2006 Regional Cases in PDF 2006 Regional Cases pdf
2006 Championship Cases in PDF 2006 Championship Cases pdf
2005 Championship Cases in PDF 2005 Championship Cases pdf
2004 Championship Cases in PDF 2004 Championship Cases pdf
2003 Championship Cases in PDF 2003 Championship Cases pdf
2002 Championship Cases in PDF 2002 Championship Cases pdf
2001 Championship Cases in PDF 2001 Championship Cases pdf
For more information about the Ethics Bowlsm competitions contact the Association’s IEB Committee Chair, Richard Greene, email rgreene@weber.edu, (801) 626-6694.
National IEB Champions
2013 – DePauw University
Finalists
FI Taylor University
SF St. Olaf College
SF Whitworth University
QF Loyola University, Chicago
QF Metropolitan State University of Denver
QF Ripon College
QF University of Oklahoma
Spirit of Robert Ladenson Award Winner
Illinois Wesleyan University
2012 – Whitworth University
Finalists
FI Clemson University
SF DePauw University
SF Wake Forest University
QF Indiana University
QF Taylor University
QF University of Alabama Birmingham
QF Weber State University
2011 – University of Central Florida
Finalists
FI Montana State University
SF Colgate University
SF Whitworth University
QF Clemson University
QF Loyola University Chicago
QF University of Colorado Denver
QF Utah Valley University
2010 – University of Alabama at Birmingham
Finalists
FI Weber State University
SF Carleton College
SF Indiana University
QF Westminster College
QF Wright State University
QF Union College
QF University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2009 – Indiana University
Finalists
FI Clemson University
SF Eckerd College
SF University of Miami
QF Northeastern Illinois University
QF University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
QF Western Michigan University
QF Whitworth University
2008 – Clemson
Finalists
FI Wright State
SF Westminster College
SF California Polytechnic University, Pomona
QF DePauw
QF Texas A & M, Corpus Christi
QF Weber State
QF University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
2007 – Miami
Finalists
FI Westminster College
SF U.S. Military Academy (USMA)
SF Clemson
QF Indiana University
QF Williams College
QF University of Texas, Pan American (UT-Pan AM)
QF Weber State
Champions
2006 – United States Military Academy
2005 – University of Washington
2004 – Indiana University
2003 – United States Naval Academy
2002 – Wright State University
2001 – Texas A & M Corpus Christi
2000 – University of Washington
1999 – United States Military Academy
1998 – United States Military Academy
1997 – University of Montana
1996 – United States Air Force Academy
1995 – Western Michigan University
