Hello colleagues, I'm moving my part of the organization discussion to the listserv that was created for directors. The power to cast the ballots and make the decisions that determine the direction of this organization lies here, so this is my target audience. I've tried this once before and got little to no response. I guess the litmus test is whether directors feel this is a safe place to express themselves. It's clear that the majority of us don't feel that safety exist on edebate. I suspect the concern here is whether someone will forward discussions here back onto edebate. I don't know if that has ever happened, but my hope is that a conversation can begin here which allows more directors to feel they can participate. I have a couple more procedural questions before we get started, most I'm sure Gordon can answer: 1) Is there a separate executive council distribution list and is there much conversation about policy making done on it? 2) Is the entire executive council part of this list? 3) Does the executive do any business outside of the required meetings which I believe are (summer, NCA, and CEDA nationals) via email? I have one question for the membership...Are you willing to disclose where you stand on the organizational question of whether you feel CEDA and NDT should have the same mission? I have one additional question for the my administration which would include my executive council...There are four ideas discussed so far: 1) CEDA and NDT keep things as they are 2) CEDA go back to 2 topics per year, one being non-policy (Elliott); 3) Having a simultaneous policy and non-policy resolution that the affirmative can chose each debate (Korcok); or 4) Support for different but related topics between CEDA (broad or more flexibility) and NDT (narrow or less flexibility) (Warner)? 5) others? I'll take the information backchannel if you are not comfortable posting publicly. I promise not to critique or debate your personal thoughts. My agenda is rather obvious to gather some preliminary information so I can personally make realistic decisions about how to proceed, since I think some type of organizational statement or perhaps by-laws change would likely be necessary to pursue my idea. I also think this would be a good time for some consensus building if it can be done. I've put a lot of time into this over the last couple of days because I think it's really, really important. I spent a lot of this past year fighting to stabilize the Louisville program, now I would like to see assist if I can in bringing some stability, but more importantly some community, to NDT/CEDA? Thanks in advance. Love, Ede Ede Warner, Jr. Director of Debate Society/Associate Professor of Communication University of Louisville 308E Strickler Hall 502-852-3522 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://comm.louisville.edu/~debate
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