The St. Philip's College Ethics Bowl Team
2019 - 2020

Big news for the study of Ethics at St. Philip's College, as for the first time we fielded not one but two separate teams for competition in the annual Ethics Bowl.

The St. Philip's College Ethics Bowl Teams each competed twice this fall semester, first at the 22nd Texas Regional Ethics Bowl at St. Mary's University, and then at the 2019 Two-Year College National Championship which was hosted by St. Philip's College.

The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) gives students a chance to enter an academic competition that combines excitement and fun with an educationally valuable experience in the areas of practical and professional ethics.

Hundreds of students and teams across the United States and Canada compete in competitions each fall. The teams argue and defend their moral assessment of some of the most troubling and complex ethical issues facing society today. Questions address a wide array of topics in business and professional ethics, in personal relationships, and in social and political affairs.

The St. Philip’s College Ethics Bowl Team competed for a fourth season in the 2019 Texas Regional Ethics Bowl on November 16, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. in the Albert B. Alkek Business Building and the University Center of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.

St. Philip’s College also hosted the National Two-Year College Ethics Bowl competition on Saturday, November 23, 2019, in the Sutton Learning Center. This event brought together two-year college teams from around the country, from Utah to Florida, and Illinois to Georgia.
At the National Two-Year College Ethics Bowl competition on Saturday, November 23, 2019, the St. Philip's College Nursing Students won 3rd place ...AND the Spirit of Robert Ladenson Award for exemplifying civility during the Ethics Bowl National Championship.  Named for the founder of the Ethics Bowl, the Spirit of Robert Ladenson Award is chosen via a vote of rival team members.

2019 Texas Regional Ethics Bowl
at St. Mary's University

2019 National Two-Year College Ethics Bowl
at St. Philip's College

The St. Philip's College Ethics Bowl Team
2018 - 2019

The 2018 National Championship at Weber State University
Two-Year College National Qualifier
Location: Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
Date: December 1, 2018
Contact person: Gregory Wright, email: [email protected]
Participants are nationwide.
Deadline:November 15, 2018

The Intercollegiate Ethics BowlSM (IEB) gives students a chance to enter an academic competition that combines excitement and fun with an educationally valuable experience in the areas of practical and professional ethics.

Hundreds of students and teams across the United States and Canada compete in 11 competitions each fall. The teams argue and defend their moral assessment of some of the most troubling and complex ethical issues facing society today. Questions address a wide array of topics in business and professional ethics, in personal relationships, and in social and political affairs.
The Texas Regional Ethics Bowl at St. Mary's University
Texas Regional Ethics Bowl
Location: St. Mary’s University
Date: November 10, 2018
Contact person: Robert Skipper, email: [email protected]
Participants are typically from Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
Deadline: October 26, 2018 
Limited team spots are available and may fill before the deadline.

The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl

The Intercollegiate Ethics BowlSM (IEB) gives students a chance to enter an academic competition that combines excitement and fun with an educationally valuable experience in the areas of practical and professional ethics.

Hundreds of students and teams across the United States and Canada compete in 11 competitions each fall. The teams argue and defend their moral assessment of some of the most troubling and complex ethical issues facing society today.

Questions address a wide array of topics in business and professional ethics, in personal relationships, and in social and political affairs.

The St. Philip's College Ethics Bowl Team
2017 - 2018

The team participated in the Fall 2017 Texas Regional Ethics Bowl at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas.


Ethics Bowl TeamBy: Public Relations
Monday, October 23, 2017

Today, St. Philip’s College announced that its Ethics Bowl Team competes for a second season in the 2017 Texas Regional Ethics Bow Nov. 11 at 9 a.m. in the Albert B. Alkek Business Building and the University Center of St. Mary’s University at One Camino Santa Maria.

Returning original team members Lauren Estrada, Enrique Alonzo and Zainah Al Shobber join new colleagues Erika Bennett, Katrina King, Zephaniah Russell, Sarahi Perez, and Saadia Abdi for season two of this college team project.
2017 marks the second year that a team from the college competes in the intercollegiate program organized by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. If the college’s team qualifies, the students could travel to Chicago as a team for professional development opportunities and competition at the national association’s 22nd Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition, held during the association's 2018 annual meeting March 3–4 in Chicago.

With 11 qualifying event competitions across the United States and Canada each fall, the bowl competition season provides students with team experiences in the areas of both practical and professional ethics. The college’s team makes its first stop on their road to Chicago by competing on Nov. 11 with colleague teams from Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Each team analyzes and argues the most ethical resolutions of issues in many new competition-specific case studies provided online each fall by organizers http://appe-ethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-Regional-IEB-Cases-Revised.pdf. National cases will not be released online until mid-winter.

With cases downloaded, weeks of interdisciplinary team work is preparing the team for a competition environment.

That means no notes. Unexpected questions. Debates on ethically provocative cases. Strict etiquette rules. Hot button subjects that range from medicine and business to education, personal relationships and governance.
St. Philip’s College students prepared and represented themselves well in this environment, explained college assistant professor of philosophy Andrew Hill, J.D., a faculty member in a department that annually builds the knowledge of 3,500 social sciences students.

“We established our college’s Ethics Bowl Team in fall of 2016,” shared Hill. “In our first season of regional competition, we outscored seven of 16 universities, including the only other community college competing. Our students also observed the national competition, held in Dallas in February,” Hill said.

“Our team was established as part of our college's Quality Enhancement Program-Ethical Decision Making special projects initiative https://www.alamo.edu/spc/qep/,” Hill explained.

The plan is a multi-year project to improve an important aspect of student learning through broad-based involvement and is a requirement of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Ethical Decision Making is the plan topic chosen by college constituents: students, faculty, staff, administrators and external advisory committee members as each of these groups gave input to the college’s selected topic. To that end, ethical decision making is actively taught in some form to all students and employees at St. Philip's College, and engagement with the association is of great interest to both students and employees, explained Hill.

Find details on the competition program at http://appe-ethics.org/2016-ieb-regional-list-and-information/.

The St. Philip's College Ethics Bowl Team
2016 - 2017

The Inaugural Ethics Bowl Team from St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas!

These inter-collegiate competitors went head-to-head with 23 other teams from across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas on Saturday, November 12, 2016 in the 19th Annual Texas Regional Ethics Bowl held at St. Mary's University.

I can tell you, without reservation, I am proud of each and every one of them, as they represented our College with distinction. Go Tigers!