The Ethics Bowl at Manhattanville

Unlike other Regional Ethics Bowls, the M’ville Ethics Bowl aims to foster constructive intergenerational dialogue. In order to do so, it invites current Undergraduate Students to sit alongside accomplished academics and professionals, and recent graduates, on its panels of judges. All judges at the M’ville Ethics Bowl must also attend an orientation session in order to come to know each other and learn to work with each other. Orientations help the intergenerational panels of judges collaborate with each other in a climate of respect. The collegiality of the panels helps High School Students feel less pressured to impress and allows them to focus on the coherence and cogency of their arguments. 

 2016 was the Inaugural Regional High School Ethics Bowl at Manhattanville College. We started with six high schools in the New York Tri-State Area with roughly seventy high school students competing! 

 In 2021, year of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, we realized how crucial constructive dialogue is. Our one and only online High School Ethics Bowl saw roughly 100 high school students debate on a Zoom Call. At the 2023 High School Ethics Bowl, Manhattanville College hosted 250 high school students from Westchester County!