Coach Information

Schedule (2021-22)

Activity	Time
Breakfast/Registration/Check-In	7:00 am-8:00 am
Welcome	8:00 am-8:30 am
Match One	8:45 am-10:30 am
Match Two	10:45 am-12:30 pm
Lunch/Team Pictures	12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Match Three	1:45 pm-3:30 pm
Closing and Awards	3:45 pm-4:15 pm
-Award Winner Pictures

2021-22 Regional Ethics Bowl Cases

Cases for the 2021-22 regional Ethics Bowl are available on the APPE website. Teams competing in the Central States region will need to prepare only nine of the 15 cases released by the IEB regional case-writing committee. The 9 cases for the CSREB are as follows:

CASE #	Title
2	Talk Until You're Blue in the Face
3	Critical Race Theory in Schools
5	Iguana Be Left Alone
8	Is the Price too High
10	A Penny for Your Shots
11	Your Money or Your Lives
12	From Cradle to College
14	Living and Dying in Skid Row
15	An Eye for an Eye

Links to cases

• 2020-21 APPE IEB Regional Cases
• Full packet of 15 cases prepared by the IEB regional case-writing committee
  

Selection of cases for the Central States region

The nine cases to be used at the Central States competition were selected by the regional representative, the bowl organizer and a third party who is neither a coach nor a sponsor of an Ethics Bowl team. This three-person panel convenes to select the nine cases on the morning that IEB releases the fifteen regional cases, so that they can inform Central States coaches and team members of the nine selected cases as soon as possible on the day that the cases are released.

The panel selects cases for the Central States regional competition according to the following criteria:

• Clarity of writing
• Variety of fields covered (e.g., medical ethics, environmental ethics, law/policy, etc.)
• Topical dissimilarity to recent regional and national Ethics Bowl cases
• Range of difficulty levels

Official Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl rules

The Central States Regional Ethics Bowl is conducted according to the rules for regional competitions set by the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl national board, along with the rules and guidelines set and published by the Central States regional competition organizer and regional representative:

• APPE Regional Rules
• APPE Policies and Procedures
• APPE IBE Etiquette

The following documents describe the judging, scoring and moderating of matches at the Central States bowl:

• Judging Guidelines
• Scoring Guidelines
• Judge Training Video

For teams advancing to the IEB national championship, that competition's rules are set by the IEB board:

• APPE National Championship Rules

Seeding and room assignments

The organizers of the Central States Regional Ethics Bowl have an ongoing and longstanding commitment to ensuring that our competitions are as fair and equitable as possible.

Matches at Central States are drawn according to seeded groups that ensure that each team faces roughly the same level of competition over the course of the competition. Schools are seeded (i.e., ranked for competitive strength) on the basis of those schools' placement in recent three years' Central States competitions (with the most recent two years receiving additional weighting), and then grouped so that the average strength of teams in each group is roughly equivalent to those of all other groups.

Central States is fortunate to have a corps of experienced judges, many of whom have been with us for several years. In grouping judges together into three-person panels, we aim to ensure that each room's panel is varied in terms of profession, gender and other demographic considerations. We aim to distribute newer judges so that each has the benefit of being placed on a panel with more experienced ones. Although historically judges have overwhelmingly agreed on the outcome of matches, inevitable some judges tend to award somewhat higher scores than others. Therefore we evaluate judges' scoring in previous competitions to ensure that judges are placed on panels such that the effects of these individual tendencies are canceled out as much as possible.

Once teams have been seeded, we ensure that no team competes in front of the same panel of judges’ more than once.

Registration

Registration for the Central States Regional Ethics Bowl is open beginning August 15, 2021. The final date for team registration is October 15, 2021.

• All schools must pay a $125 APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl program participation fee to APPE to participate in the regional competitions. In addition, the Central States Region has an additional $50 "host fee" to cover their local costs which is paid directly to the regional host.
• All teams competing in a regional or national APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl competition must have at least one current APPE Individual or Institutional membership. Student memberships do not meet this qualification. This information will be required on the team registration form.
• Your team will not be considered "registered" for any competition until all required forms and fees have been submitted.

• APPE regional Ethics Bowl team registration form (Scroll down)
• Central States registration fee payment portal
  

Links and contacts

• Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
• The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
  
• Elizabeth A. Coit, ecoit@marian.edu, Central States regional representative to the national IEB board