APPE - SFF CALL FOR PAPERS
Best Formal Paper on Pre-College Ethics - $1,000 prize
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, with support of the Squire Family Foundation, will sponsor a competition to advance the work of those interested in pre-college ethics. The Squire Family Foundation Award, along with a check for $1000, will be presented for the best paper submitted on approaches to teaching pre-college ethics and involving precollege students in ethics education.

2010 APPE - Squire Family Foundation Award
In March 2010 Dr. Randall Curren, chair of the philosophy department and professor of education at Rochester University, won the 2010 Squire Family Foundation APPE award for best paper. In his essay, "Governing Classrooms Well," Dr. Curren argues that the ethics of teaching and the teaching of ethics are always intertwined. Read Dr. Curren's paper.

Congratulations, Dr. Curren!

Roundtable Discussion at APPE 19th Annual Meeting
March 5, 2010
4:15 to 5:45 pm
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza
Cincinnati, OH

It’s Never Too Early To Talk About Ethics:
Creating a National High School Ethics Bowl

Participants:	Matt Deaton Graduate Teaching Associate, Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee
	Fred Guy Associate Professor, University of Baltimore; Director, Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics, Baltimore, MD
	Karen Mizell Associate Professor, Philosophy and Humanities, Utah Valley University
	George Sherman Adjunct Ethics Instructor, St. Petersburg College, FL
	Roberta Israeloff Squire Family Foundation, chair

Looking at the success of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl as a way to engage young adults and generate enthusiasm for ethical inquiry in general, it seems logical to adapt the event for high schools. Doing so now will capitalize on the growing interest in involving pre-college students in philosophy education in general, and in ethics in particular.

This panel had a practical and strategic focus. First, the panelists, all of whom have been ahead of the curve by creating local ethics bowls in their communities, discussed how they initiated the event, the difficulties they encountered and surmounted, and their blueprints for expansion. They then discussed how to strategically export the event to other communities, create regional competitions, and ultimately a national competition, modeled on the IEB.

2009 APPE - Squire Family Foundation Award
In March 2009 Dr. Claudia Mills won the 2009 APPE - Squire Family Foundation Award. The winning paper in the pre-college ethics call for papers competition, which Dr. Mills delivered at the APPE annual meeting in March, is titled "Children's Literature as a Vehicle for Pre-College Ethics: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Shiloh." Read Dr. Mills' paper.

Claudia Mills is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in ethics, applied ethics, and political philosophy. She is the author of over 40 books for children, including How Oliver Olson Changed the World (Farrar Straus & Giroux 2009) and The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish (Farrar Straus & Giroux 2008). She also writes widely on ethical issues in children's literature and is a member of the scholarly Children's Literature Association.

Congratulations, Dr. Mills!