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Skov Essay Competition on Business Ethics 2024
1. The essay must be an original work of 800 words or less that addresses the following topic: “The transformative power of financial responsibility: what does it mean and why is this important?” 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. All essays will be screened for the use of AI technology. Essays generated by AI tools such as Chat GPT will be eliminated. 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. Any persons employed by the Skov Essay Competition on Business Ethics and members of the immediate family of any such persons are not eligible to participate and win.
7. Failure to comply with the competition rules and guidelines will result in disqualification.
8. 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 CMME.
9. 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
- 800 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 10, 2024