The Ethics and Leadership Initiative of the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community provides an internship program dedicated to ethics-focused placements across a variety of professional fields with a parallel curricular component that will allow the interns the space to reflect on and the expertise necessary to meet the ethical challenges of their future professional lives.
Partners have included non-profits local to the City of Dayton and surrounding region, such as the Dayton Mayor's Office, ThinkTV, Adventure Central (a collaboration between Five Rivers Metropark and The Ohio State University) and more.
For more information, please contact us at ELI@udayton.edu.
Ethics Bowl is an intercollegiate debate-style competition in which students are rewarded for making good ethical arguments. Teams are given the opportunity to choose which position they take on a number of cases that are being debated in society.
Each Fall, students travel to Indianapolis to compete in the Regional Ethics Bowl competition with other schools across the country. Pending the team’s success, students may advance to Nationals in the spring, which is held in a different city each year.
In this competition, academic institutions, each represented by a two-student undergraduate team and accompanying faculty, travel to headquarters in Maryland to present their solutions to a fictional case involving ethical, business and engineering dilemmas.
Students are invited to think about the importance of ethics in the workplace and the various real life dilemmas that can arise, especially in the multifaceted and fast-paced world of technology. Cases have covered satellite collisions, drone flight simulators, cybersecurity threats and risk to pilots in test flights.
