WSU 2205 Ethics Bowl Team in Top Five Nationally
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From left, seated: David Robins and Andrea Harris (team captain). Standing: Jennifer Rammel, Dylan Borchers, Hiloni Bhavsar, and Professor Joseph Petrick, team advisor and director, Institute for Business Integrity
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Wright State University’s undergraduate Ethics Bowl Team was ranked among the top five in the nation at the Eleventh National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, held last February at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in San Antonio. This marks the fifth straight year that a Wright State team has garnered top honors at the competition, which attracts 40 universities from around the country, such as Indiana, Clemson, Loyola, Texas A&M, United States Air Force Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the University of Washington.
The event is a timed critical reasoning contest that randomly poses fifteen complex moral cases on a wide range of controversial topics that people face as family members, employees, and citizens. “The goal is to create a forum where students are challenged to improve their judgment integrity under time pressure by analyzing diverse ethics cases in depth and exercising argumentation skills they’ll need to be publicly accountable for their decisions,” said Joseph A. Petrick, team coach and director of WSU’s Institute for Business Integrity in the Raj Soin College of Business.
The team consisted of Andrea Harris, (team captain); Jennifer Rammel; David Robins; Hiloni Bhavsar; and Dylan Borchers.
“The hard work and cooperative support that led to Wright State's outstanding performance in the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl is now a source of shared pride on campus and an institutional tradition. It brought out the best in people in our academic community and serves as another source of local Dayton community pride,” added Petrick.
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