Conference Schedule
8:30 am – 3:45 pm
APPE RISEsm Pre-Conference Symposium
9 am – 1 pm
Ethics Center Directors Summit
9 am – Noon
Designing Your Ethics Course: From Planning to Assessment
Whether you are planning curriculum for your first-time teaching ethics or looking for new ideas after decades of teaching, this workshop is for you. Cara Biasucci and Deni Elliott, Project Co-Directors for the National Ethics Project (NEP), will help you get clear on your goals for ethics education and help you accomplish them. Participants will leave the workshop with student learning objectives, activities to help students accomplish objectives, and assessment techniques that enable instructors to know what their students achieved. Regardless of discipline or venue, this 3-hour workshop is appropriate for those who teach ethics currently or who intend to teach. Limited to 25 participants.
Noon – 8 pm
Resource Room
Browse publications, talk with publishers, network with colleagues, and purchase discounted books.
2 – 3 pm
Concurrent Session 1
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Concurrent Session 2
4:30 – 6 pm
Opening Plenary
6 – 8 pm
Opening Reception
Network with colleagues and our panelists. Free for all conference attendees.
8 am – 7 pm
Resource Room
Browse publications, talk with publishers, network with colleagues, and purchase discounted books.
8:30 – 9:30 am
Breakfast (Free, Open to All): Honoring First Time & International Attendees
Free and open to all conference attendees. Join us as we provide a special welcome to our first time attendees and attendees from across the globe. Light breakfast items will be served.
9:30 – 10:30 am
Concurrent Session 3
10:45 – 11:45 am
Concurrent session 4
11:45 – 1 pm
Lunch Break
Lunch on your own.
11:45 – 1 pm
Business Ethics Affinity Group Meet-up
Meet on the 4th floor by the registration desk to walk to lunch together.
11:45 – 1 pm
Grad Student Meet-up
Meet on the 4th floor by the registration desk to walk to lunch together.
1 – 2:30 pm
Concurrrent Session 5
2:45 – 4 pm
APPE Annual Mentoring Workshop
2:45 – 4 pm
Ethics Roundtable: What Do We Owe Each Other? Ethics in the Age of Generative Tools
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in education, creative work, and everyday communication, new ethical challenges continue to emerge. But AI is not the only tool raising concerns—issues of authorship, attribution, and honesty have long been central to academic and professional life. Students may share answers, submit unauthorized work, or rely on others’ ideas without acknowledgement, whether through technology or more traditional means. This roundtable explores the ethical responsibilities we carry in collaborative and learning environments, including how we uphold trust, accountability, and respect for intellectual labor in a culture where shortcuts are readily available. Participants will consider what we owe each other as students, educators, and citizens in shaping a more honest and values-based academic community.
4:15 – 5:30 pm
Keynote
6 pm
Media & Journalism Ethics Meet-up
Meet in the lobby to walk to dinner together.
8 am – 3 pm
Resource Room
Browse publications, talk with publishers, network with colleagues, and purchase discounted books. (Fire sale starts at noon!)
8:30 – 9:30 am
Breakfast (Free, Open to All): Authors Reception & Poster Session
Join us for light breakfast items and visit with authors and poster presenters. Free and open to all conference attendees.
9:30 – 10:30 am
Concurrent session 6
10:45 – 11:45 am
Concurrent session 7
11:45 – 1 pm
Lunch Break
Lunch on your own.
12 – 1 pm
Ethics Bowl Lunch
(Registration is required.)
1 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent session 8
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Session 9
3:45 – 5 pm
Conference / Ethics Bowl Attendee Mix & Mingle
This serves as the closing for the conference and the opening for the APPE IEB®. Grab a snack to go or stay and network with colleagues and Ethics Bowl students.
4 – 10 pm
APPE IEB® National Competition
9 am – 6 pm
APPE IEB® National Competition
Times, TBD