Established 2006 Campus Dupont Circle Founded 2006 | Enrollment 24 Founder Noah Bopp | |
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Type Semester-long, boarding school Motto "Change Yourself. Change the World." Website www.schoolforethics.org Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States Similar Center for the Study of the Pre, Oxbow School, Chewonki Foundation Profiles | ||
Located in Washington, D.C., 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.
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History
High school educator Noah Bopp founded SEGL in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. SEGL matriculated its first class of students on August 29, 2009. Since its inception, the school has graduated over 300 students.
School life
Students at SEGL take courses based on a block schedule. Students take Ethics and Leadership for two hours on Monday, all day Wednesday, and for two hours on Friday. Other courses have regular 50 minute and longer block periods. All students also take an introductory Arabic and Chinese language and culture course. Along with the specialized SEGL curriculum, students take courses that match sending school requirements. The school also hosts a Summer Institute and offers several summer international excursions.
Visits with prominent guest speakers are common. Guests have included Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, General Stanley A. McChrystal, Egil "Bud" Krogh, Carl Wilkens, Lissa Muscatine, Ambassador Mark Dybul, Senator Chuck Schumer, former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, NRA President David Keene, and Governor Michael Dukakis.
The school's academic building is a block from Dupont Circle. The residential building is half a block from the U.S. Supreme Court and one block from the U.S. Capitol building on Capitol Hill.
Trustees
Dudley Lacy is the SEGL board chair. He took over from J. Matteson Ellis, SEGL's founding board chair, in May, 2012. Paige Cottingham-Streater is the current board vice chair. Harold Eugene Batiste III is SEGL board vice chair emeritus. James Warren is the board's legal counsel.