Benjamin DelGiorno Part of Marist College's Winning Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl Championship Team

2015 Jan 19

Benjamin DelGiorno, of Poughkeepsie, NY, recently participated on an Ethics Team from Marist's School of Management in the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl Championship coming out on top in a field of 24 teams from 16 colleges and universities. DelGiorno is a studying Business Administration.

The competition took place on December 6 at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. The 10 Regional Ethics Bowls occur in the fall and serve as qualifying competitions for the National Ethics Bowl, which take place in California in February. The top 32 teams that compete in the Regional Ethics Bowls will be invited to participate in the National Competition. The Nineteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition will be held as part of the APPE Annual Meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif. from Feb. 19 to 22, 2015.

The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) is a team competition sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) with an advanced approach to education in practical and professional ethics for undergraduate students. In September, each team receives a set of 15 cases and must prepare an analysis of each case. The cases cover a range of subject matters, including law, medicine, business, public policy, and personal life. At the competition, a moderator poses questions based on a case taken from that set. A panel of judges queries the teams for further justifications and evaluates their answers. Rating criteria are intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.