Conference Schedule
8:30 am – 3:45 pm
APPE RISEsm Pre-Conference Symposium: Mentoring
The 2026 APPE RISE Pre-Conference Workshop will focus on mentoring in research. Participants will learn about various successful mentoring program curricula, best practices, and tools for fostering effective mentoring relationships. The program will feature invited sessions that demonstrate specific approaches to mentor education or share tools that might be helpful in mentor education. This year’s workshop will also feature a roundtable session, in which selected presenters will share information about a mentoring curriculum, tool, or strategy, followed by a discussion with all workshop attendees. The remainder of the workshop will be devoted to breakout sessions, where presenters will work with participants to develop and adapt ideas and tools for use in their institutions. Attendees will leave the workshop with a template of options to use in building and improving their mentoring program.
9 am – 1 pm
Ethics Center Directors Summit: Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Ethics Centers
Ethics Center Directors engage in an extraordinary amount of work and provide a valuable service for their campuses and communities. Sometimes this work takes the form of ethics education within individual classes and degree programs. Sometimes this work occurs in spaces adjacent to the classroom, through residence life and student affairs programming, campus-wide orientation, or other co-curricular learning experiences such as service-learning or internships. And sometimes it takes the form of community engagement and outreach, through extensive events and programs for specific audiences, topics and needs—ranging from summer camps to workshops at community libraries. Given the broad nature of the work, demonstrating the effectiveness of our efforts requires collecting various types of data, developing specialized reports, and thinking through the interests of audiences that provide various forms of administrative, academic, programmatic, and funding support for our work. This year, we focus on the specific types of data and methods that can be deployed to demonstrate empirically—and persuasively—the effectiveness of our work.
9 am – Noon
Designing Your Ethics Course: From Aspirations 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.
1 – 4 pm
Green Dot Bystander Intervention Training
Green Dot is an active bystander intervention program designed to foster two community-wide norms: (1) Power-based personal violence is not okay, and (2) Everyone has a role to play in prevention. Through a research-based training model, participants are engaged in meaningful conversation about non-sexual and sexual violence, while also gaining practical tools and strategies to safely and effectively intervene in ways that feel authentic and manageable. Together, these “green dots” add up to a culture where everyone can live free from violence and fear.
1:15 pm
Meet-up: Gateway Arch National Park (Meet in lobby of hotel by entrance)
Gateway Arch National Park commemorates President Jefferson’s vision of a continental nation, the individuals and cultural groups who helped shape its history, and St. Louis’ role in westward expansion. The Gateway Arch is the nation's tallest monument and was designed by Eero Saarinen. The visitor center and free museum underneath the arch is open from 9 am to 6 pm and there is no admission fee.
1:50 pm
Meet-up: Old Courthouse Tour (Meet in lobby of hotel by entrance)
The Old Courthouse was the site of the first two trials of the pivotal Dred Scott case in 1847 and 1850. It was also where Virginia Minor's case for a woman's right to vote came to trial in the 1870s. National Park Service rangers provide guided tours of the building every day at 2:15. The tours cover the architecture and history of the building and the court cases associated with it. There is no admission fee.
2 – 3 pm
Concurrent Session 1
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Concurrent Session 2
4:30 – 6 pm
Opening Plenary: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
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 Address: Dr. Pamela Hieronymi
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