The Director and Executive Committee of the National High School Ethics Bowl are proud to announce the program’s inaugural Student Advisory Council. These four students were selected for appointment from among a field of over 50 excellent applications, and each will serve a one year term, through July 31, 2023. 

Check out this recent op-ed by NHSEB Director Alex Richardson and Parr Center Outreach Director Michael Vazquez.

As part of its tenth anniversary season in 2022-2023, NHSEB’s leadership team will appoint the program’s very first Student Advisory Council in order to bring student experience to the very center of NHSEB’s programming and governance. Later this Fall, four students from around the country will be selected for appointment to the NHSEB Student Advisory Council, and will advise NHSEB’s Leadership and Advisory Board on all things Ethics Bowl from the student perspective. Appointed students will also serve as a conduit for informal feedback from other students in their respective Competitive Divisions, ensuring that the voices of our diverse and dedicated student population are heard as much as possible.

A new partnership between the Parr Center for Ethics and Gravitas: A Global Extension of the Stony Brook School will bring the Center’s award-winning National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB) program to new areas of the country via an innovative online-first competition structure, drawing on the successes of the NHSEBBridge access initiative. Each year, the NHSEB brings together thousands of high school students from across the United States to think, talk, and work together on some of the most complex and controversial moral issues of our time.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of our founding, we’re proud to announce an expanded partnership with the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, produced by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE IEB®). In its earliest days, the National High School Ethics Bowl was based upon the APPE IEB and has enjoyed a close relationship with the organization since, as well as with its creator, Professor Robert Ladenson. 

Welcome to NHSEB10: The tenth anniversary season of the National High School Ethics Bowl.

As we prepare to launch NHSEB’s tenth anniversary season, the Parr Center for Ethics is excited to announce the first-ever national, longitudinal impact study conducted on the National High School Ethics Bowl. This study will be the first attempt to gain substantive insight into whether and how participating in the NHSEB program promotes the development of key intellectual and interpersonal traits among high school students.

It’s been ten years since the National High School Ethics Bowl’s founding in 2012. In that time, the program has grown by leaps and bounds. As we approach our tenth anniversary season in 2022-2023, NHSEB is bigger, better, and more inclusive than ever. This year, our team thought it was time for a new look.

NHSEB Director Alex Richardson and Parr Center Outreach Director Michael Vazquez are both featured in a new volume from Rowman and Littlefield, designed to introduce the Ethics Bowl activity and the dialogical pedagogy methods that underlie it to the broader public. The Ethics Bowl Way: Answering Questions, Questioning Answers, and Creating Ethical Communities, edited by Roberta Israeloff and Karen Mizell is available now!

The award-winning National High School Ethics Bowl teaches students how to thoughtfully engage with divisive topics — and with one another.

We are thrilled to announce that The National High School Ethics Bowl is the winner of the 2021 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs!