| The School for Ethics and Global Leadership | |
|---|---|
| SEGL | |
| Motto | "Change Yourself. Change the World." |
| Established | 2006 |
| Type | Semester-long, boarding school |
| Founder | Noah Bopp |
| Students | 20 |
| Location | Washington, DC, USA |
| Campus | Dupont Circle |
| Website | www.schoolforethics.org |
Located in Washington, DC, The School for Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL) is a selective, semester-long residential program for intellectually motivated high school juniors from across the United States. The program selects students who have shown outstanding character, promise for leadership, and scholastic ability and provides them with a unique curriculum that emphasizes ethical thinking, leadership development, and international affairs.[1]
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High school educator Noah Bopp [2] created SEGL's vision in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and founded the school with attorney Matteson Ellis [3] in 2006.
SEGL matriculated its first class of students on August 29, 2009, with students from North Carolina, South Carolina, California, Connecticut, Washington, New York, New Hampshire, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Colombia, and Jordan. The school graduated its second class on May 29, 2010 with students from Ohio, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Connecticut, Washington, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Vermont.
SEGL educates students from across the United States [4] and abroad, including the Middle East.[5]
Students at SEGL follow a rigorous 9am-5pm academic day, with free periods incorporated into each individual student's schedule. The courses currently provided are Pre-Calculus, Chemistry, AP US Government and Politics, AP U.S. History, AP English, AP Comparative Government and Politics, Latin, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and the school's flagship course, Ethics and Leadership.
The Ethics and Leadership course is a combination of academic and experiential leadership training geared to prepare ethically strong and internationally aware leaders. Topics of past Ethics and Leadership courses include leadership in times of crisis (Rwandan genocide, the Watergate Era), the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, women's rights in Afghanistan, immigration policy, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, humanitarian aid and North Korea, and post-earthquake development in Haiti.
Student routinely visit Washington D.C. landmarks, embassies, and government offices and meet with prominent political figures. Past speakers include Ambassador David Abshire, Blake Chisam (House ethics committee chief of staff), General John "Mick" Nicholson, Amb. Mark Dybul, Egil “Bud” Krogh, Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, former White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, and Pulitzer Prize winner Sheryl WuDunn.
SEGL's Founding Board of Trustees included Matteson Ellis (Chairman), Harold Eugene Batiste III (Vice Chairman), Giselle Leung (Secretary), Wellford Dillard (Treasurer), Paige Cottingham-Streater, Cabell King, Jason Reed, Megan Shutzer, Dudley Lacy, Mary Anne Waikart, Linda Jamison, Philippe Lanier, Alison Cowan, Fay Shutzer, David Shapiro, Jesse Nickelson, Lynn McNair, Brian Stansbury, and Noah Bopp. James Warren serves as the Board's primary legal counsel.
1. O'Connell, Jonathan. "School for Ethics and Global Leadership uses D.C. as setting to teach ethics." Washington Business Journal, January 30, 2009
2. Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs. "Noah Bopp" http://www.cceia.org/people/data/noah_bopp.html
3. "Academics," The School for Ethics and Global Leadership
4. "Jordanian Academy supports U.S. School for Ethics." Independent School Magazine, Summer 2009.