 | Registration is now open for individuals and groups from universities and colleges to join us for the 2nd Annual Undergraduate Leadership Conference (September 5-7, 2025), organized by APPE's Business Ethics Affinity Group. At this FREE event, undergraduate student leaders will be equipped with the basic tools in ethical decision making that will serve as a foundation for a productive year of student leadership on their campuses. They will also network with other student leaders from colleges and universities across the country. This conference is presented by APPE, The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership and the Poe Business Ethics Center at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida.
The conference will feature discussions led by APPE members Jeff Dunn, Jessica McManus Warnell, and Brian Ray, and a keynote by Derrick Crawford, Vice President, Hearing Operations, NCAA.
All events take place at The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Most events will take place on Saturday, September 6, with optional activities taking place on Friday, September 5 and Sunday, September 7 for those who want to extend their stay. |
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Ethics Bowl Resources AvailableDid you miss the 2025 Ethics Bowl Summer Workshop? Not to worry--you can access videos from all of the sessions on APPE's YouTube page. They're collected here on a Playlist. Recorded sessions include: Getting Started with Coaching, Advanced Coaching, Ethics Bowl in the Classroom, Organizing Ethics Bowls, and more.
You now can also access all of the cases used in regional and national Ethics Bowl since 2001 on this Cases, Rules, and Guidelines page. You'll need to scroll down to the Case Library section for access. We are also working on a searchable archive of cases, which will be organized by topic, rather than year.
The etiquette and FAQ documents are newly updated on this page as well and are very helpful resources for new coaches and teams. |
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APPE Member SpotlightName: Cara Biasucci
Title/Institution:Director of Ethics Education & Creator/Director of Ethics Unwrapped, University of Texas at Austin
APPE member since: 2012You were just elected to the APPE Board of Directors. What type of role do you hope to play on the board?
I hope to be able to be of service in whatever way the organization needs. I’d like to be able to leverage my experience in fundraising and grant-writing to help APPE gain firmer financial footing. And I’d like to use my experience developing educational programs to help bring value to APPE members by offering unique educational opportunities – and possibly increase membership by virtue of those offerings, too. The National Ethics Project has partnered with APPE throughout the years, most recently to provide an NEP Research Award at the annual conference. Tell us what the award will honor and why you think it's an important addition.
The NEP Research Award will honor important issues in the broad field of ethics education research including the relationship of ethics and curriculum requirements in education, the responsibilities of institutions to develop and/or support ethics education, the assessment of ethics education, and the evaluation of effective ethics education curricula and materials. All these aspects of ethics education research are crucial to explore and understand if we hope to make ethics education effective as well as central in post K-12 education around the world. You're the founder of Ethics Unwrapped. Can you explain how that project got started and how it has grown?
After more than a decade of development, it would take a whole lot of words to explain! The simple version is that the program was kick-started by a generous foundation grant whose board members saw an urgent need to improve business ethics education at the undergraduate level. Believing that the current state of ethics education wasn’t particularly effective (at least in business schools) and that everyone needed support in this area, the foundation requested that all the materials developed for the program be freely available to the public via the internet. With my background in philosophy and filmmaking, and my desire to make the world a better place, I was a good fit for the project. Over the years, I’ve had the immense pleasure to work with a whole lot of people who were as dedicated to the cause and way smarter and more talented than me. With their assistance, Ethics Unwrapped has grown from a simple website with 20 videos and discussion questions to a bilingual website offering more than 150 videos, 100+ case studies, and a wide variety of teaching resources. I’m sure the quality of the materials and the focus on videos, as well as on behavioral ethics, accounts for its exponential growth. And I’m pretty sure that being a freely available resource was also a significant driver in its rapid adoption and initial growth, too. You have so many talents--educator, author, filmmaker. What's next for you? Or, what are you working on that excites you right now?
No one knows the future…so I can’t predict what is next for me. I wish I could! But I’m working on an exciting (and very challenging) new series for Ethics Unwrapped on ethics and artificial intelligence (AI). We’ve interviewed a lot of experts in the field as well as a lot of students to get a feel for how people are thinking about and relating to this major shift in our world. This summer, we’re in the process of editing together a documentary and a series of short videos on the topic as well as writing case studies and discussion questions about some of the basic principles of ethical AI such as transparency and accountability. It’s such a fast-moving topic with so many unknowns – and that makes it an extremely challenging project. We want to put our time, energy, and resources into creating ethics content that has ever-green appeal. We’ll see if we can pull that off with this new series. Wish us luck! |
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Newsy and Noteworthy
Ethics in the News Jobs & Events
Have you seen our job and event emails? Limited free access to post jobs and events of interest in the weekly email (as well as in the Info Hub) is a benefit of membership. If you're a member and would like to submit something for consideration, just login to the Member portal, go to Job & Event Postings and click "add." Non-members can access the jobs and events by creating a login but must pay a fee to list positions and events. Reach out to contact@appe-ethics.org for more info.
We Want to Hear From You! To be featured as a member spotlight or if you have news to share, including books published, send us an email at membernews@appe-ethics.org. |
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Ethics Bowl Case to Consider Auto Autos (2016 APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl® National Competition Case Set) We have recently organized a Case Archive of all Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl cases from 2001. You'll find Ethics Bowl cases on topics that were extremely important during their time and even some ahead of their time, such as one in 2016 about self-driving cars that previewed current ethical and legal dilemmas.
As is written in the case: "If a self-driving car does get into an accident, who is liable, the driver or the automaker? Arguably, the driver may still be at fault were he or she to fail to override the car’s actions manually when possible. The manufacturer could also be in an especially vulnerable position if a death were found to be caused by a decision programmed into the car. If a car, for example, swerves to avoid hitting another car and hits a pedestrian instead, the car will have done so because it was programmed to save the driver’s life at the expense of a pedestrian’s." Visit the new archived case library (on Google Drive) here and click on 2016 National Cases, then scroll to #13. (Note: We are also working on a searchable archive of cases, which will be organized by topic, rather than year.) |
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