Student Ethics Office
The innovative Student Ethics Office™(SEO) program gives secondary school students the opportunity to build and practice ethical leadership skills while helping their peers. SEO's further the cause of ethics in the school community by creating an infrastructure to promote the school's core values. Student, acting as ethics officers, communicate the ethical ideals of the community through trainings and educational endeavors, identify areas of need within the school community, develop effective solutions, and serve as a force for positive peer-pressure within a school community. Modeled on corporate ethics offices, SEOs have credibility within the school population because solutions are proposed and implemented by other students based on their own experiences and perspectives
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The Student Fellows Program brings student ethics officers together in the Washington DC area each summer to share their successes, challenges, and future directions. The summer meeting includes leadership training for student ethics officers from SEO schools, as well as their moderators. This week-long meeting incorporates time for the representatives to plan their SEO initiatives for the up-coming year and allows for collegial discussions among ethics officers from various schools. In addition to the general SFP meeting in the summer, concentrated, executive-level Student Fellows meetings are held each January. The January meeting provides an opportunity for schools to share their successes and work together to create solutions to program challenges, while developing the skills and expertise of the leaders
