Two UCCS Ethics Bowl Teams recently competed in the Rocky Mountain Regional Ethics Bowl competition, coming in second place and fourth place. Fourteen total teams participated in the competition, including teams from CU Boulder, Arizona, and CU Denver. The all-day event was held at UCCS on November 12, 2022, with over 120 people in attendance.
The UCCS A Ethics Bowl team, which came in second, has now qualified for the National Ethics Bowl competition being held in March 2023. To put this in perspective, over 170 Ethics Bowl teams compete in regional competitions around the country, and only the top 36 teams overall go to Nationals.
“This is exceptionally cool, and demonstrates the hard work that our students have put into this competition,” said Jennifer Kling, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and UCCS Ethics Bowl team coach. “It is a tremendous accomplishment, and as their coach, I couldn’t be prouder of our team members.”
“This success demonstrates UCCS’s commitment to ethics and civics education – in a time of deep polarization, our students are proving their ability to engage in difficult, productive dialogues about the real-world issues that matter most,” she continued. “They are not only interrogating their own and others’ assumptions and discussing them, but also then putting forward constructive, ethical solutions that attempt to account for others’ concerns and that could be pragmatically implemented.”
The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) National Competition is being held in Portland, Oregon from March 4-5, 2023. It is sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and is a marquee event during the Association’s annual conference. As such, the students competing will have a chance not only to compete against other collegiate Ethics Bowl teams, but also to meet professionals of all stripes.
For more information, visit appeieb.org.