Ethics and Leadership Initiative
Ethics Competitions
Ethic’s Bowl is an intercollegiate debate-style competition in which students are rewarded for making good ethical arguments. Teams are given the opportunity to choose which position they take on a number of cases that are being debated in society. Cases are drawn from areas 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 Fall, students travel to Indianapolis to compete in the Regional Ethics Bowl competition with other schools across the country. Pending the team’s success, students may advance to Nationals in the spring, which is held in a different city each year. In order to take part in the competition, students must be enrolled in either UDI 318 or a special section of PHL312.
For more information, please email ELI@udayton.edu
In this competition, academic institutions, each represented by a two-student undergraduate team and accompanying faculty, travel to headquarters in Maryland to present their solutions to a fictional case involving ethical, business and engineering dilemmas. Students are invited to think about the importance of ethics in the workplace and the various real life dilemmas that can arise, especially in the multifaceted and fast-paced world of technology. Cases have covered satellite collisions, drone flight simulators, cybersecurity threats and risk to pilots in test flights.