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Skov Essay Competition on Business Ethics 2025
1. The essay must be an original work of 500 words or less that addresses the following topic: “Investigate the ethical responsibilities of businesses when replacing human jobs with AI. Should companies be required to retrain displaced workers?” Words in the title page, reference page, and footnotes are not included in the word count.
2. Any non-original material used in the essay (e.g., quotations or copyrighted work) must be properly identified using the APA style.
3. You must use AI technology (e.g., ChatGPT) to write this essay. In addition, you must submit the prompt(s) you used for this purpose. We will evaluate the final product (i.e., the essay) along with the prompt(s) used. Submissions without the prompt will not be evaluated. Students must cite any borrowed content sources to comply with all applicable citation guidelines, copyright law, and avoid plagiarism. Instances that violate these guidelines will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution.
4. UTEP undergraduate students are eligible to participate.
5. Only one entry per person will be accepted.
6. Failure to comply with the competition rules and guidelines will result in disqualification.
7. The Center for Multicultural Management and Ethics (CMME) reserves the right to modify the competition’s prize structure and/or withhold the offering of any prizes if essay submissions fail to comply with the competition’s rules and submission guidelines and/or fail to meet the quality standards sought by the Center for Multicultural Management and Ethics.
8. Disbursement of the award is conditional upon both receiving all information requested from participants by the established deadlines and attending the award ceremony. (All information submitted must be complete and free of mistakes).
Essay Format:
- Typewritten in English
- APA style
- must include a title page and reference page
- abstract is not required
- Times New Roman
- 12-point font
- Double-spaced
- 1-inch margins
- 500 words or less
What to Submit:
Contestants must submit documents in the specified formats:
- Essay (PDF)
- Skov Essay Competition Form (Save as PDF) for undergraduate students
Where to Submit:
All submissions must be emailed to ethicsessay@utep.edu with the subject “Skov Essay Submission”
How to Submit:
Attached a PDF of your essay and a PDF of the Skov Essay Competition Form to the email. We do not have access to your storage cloud, so please do not link your document to your cloud. We need you to attach copies of the essay and the form to ethicsessay@utep.edu.
When to Submit:
- Submission deadline: March 7, 2025