This is a busy time both in the competitive season and the organizational calendar as we look forward to the next academic year. I would like to highlight a couple of upcoming items from CEDA for your consideration and review.
1) 2008 NCA in San Diego There has been some discussion, but it is important for folks to consider utilizing our sole national professional association meetings as an important time of organization reflection and business. Consider and submit those research or discussion items that you would like to share your colleagues and community. We may not all agree with some ways in which the national organization does business, but it remains our sole option to gather our community as part of the larger academic community. Your submission options are (courtesy of CEDA's NCA planner Eric Morris): 1. Paper - write one, full text, and submit it. It doesn't have to be related to anyone else's paper, and it could get placed on the top paper panel. 2. Panel - Paper presentation. Several people all write papers on the same topic. They could just an abstract for right now. In the recent past, the acceptance rate has been high for these. 3. Panel discussion. People agree to show up and share their experiences on a topic. Less work, less prestigious, less commitment. Eric also recently provided a great list of possible topics for your work, as well as the procedures for submitting papers. You can review it at http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/2008-February/073764.html You can also review the NCA website to submit your work http://www.natcom.org/disclaimer.asp Remember the deadline for submissions is one week from today, Wednesday February 13th at 5 pm EST. 2) CEDA-40 As part of the NCA planning for this year, and upcoming years, we are encouraging folks to begin building their analysis and discussion of the state of policy debate for the 40th anniversary of CEDA in 2011. It is important now to begin compiling research and analysis so that when we arrive at the anniversary we are in a position to have enacted reforms that better our activity. You can review my original announcement at http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/2007-July/071645.html and consider if there is a way that you might begin the process of adding to our scholarship about the activity for this upcoming NCA. 3) The 08-09 Topic This is the first year that the CEDA topic committee is utilizing a later submission date for the first topic papers (i.e. controversy papers). We will be accepting these papers until Friday, April 18, 2008. I will be available to discuss the topic process with folks at the Texas tournament this weekend, but I also encourage you to read more about the process at http://www.cedatopic.com/ The site provides guidelines about how you can submit a controversy paper, notes all key dates, and gives you a list of what other folks have volunteered to research. The subjects that people are currently researching include: Global Infectious Disease Education (College/universities or primary education) Domestic Aspects of Globalization (i.e., Labor laws, Environmental regulation, etc) Industrial Policy Urban Policy/Transportation/ Infrastructure Health Care/ Entitlements Global Warming Russia / Central Asian Countries World Bank Latin America US Weapons Posture/Doctrine This isn't an exclusive list by any means and it also doesn't preclude more folks volunteering to help fully explore these topics or take them in different directions. Our new emphasis on controversies (rather than just the areas mentioned above) allows us to consider multiple controversy papers on what you might consider a single 'area.' This is a way to maximize the interest that you have in exploring a topic and also provide the community with some predictability when they vote. I will update site after this weekend with new volunteer lists, so please take a moment and give some thought to the next topic. Thanks for reading. Please let me know if you have any questions. Gordon Chair, CEDA Topic Selection Committee & CEDA 2nd VP Gordon Stables, Ph.D. Director of Debate and Forensics Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California Office: 213 740 2759 Fax: 213 740 3913 <http://usctrojandebate.com/> http://usctrojandebate.com
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