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09/04/2014

ECA 2015 Convention - Community College Interest Group - Call for Submissions Reminder

Hello Community College Interest Group,

It's September....please enjoy the start of the semester. Below is the link to the draft minutes, brainstormed ideas for 2015 programming, and call for proposals. PLEASE, if you have an idea, don't be shy. Let me know if I can help find people for you to contact about putting a proposal together. Also, please use the Google documents--leave an idea and your contact information there for others to get in touch with you. Have fun putting the proposals together...but most of all, put them together! Without you, ECA cannot learn about the power of Community College education in Communication.

Becky

In this email are several items for you to consider, and some on which you may act:

  1. Draft Minutes (recorded by Jessica Papajcik—Thank you, Jessica!—while Shawn Starcher was double-booked during the business meeting. Shawn reformatted and sends them to us.) Please read these, and they can be amended if necessary, or/and approved at the 2015 meeting. If you were unable to attend but are interested in reviewing proposals, please send me an email: RTownsend@mcc.commnet.edu.
  1. Brainstorm for 2015 Results. To help us generate ideas for the 2105 program, I posted newsprint on the walls. News print titles contained the titles of ideas from the previous 2 years of business meeting brainstorms, with blank newsprint for new ideas from this year’s meeting. Participants went around to the paper, adding names or offering new ideas. I urge you to use these as springboards for your own thinking on creating a proposal. Results are in 2 formats:
    1. Word .doc that contains the brainstorm results plus the program titles for the CCIG from 2010-2013.
    2. Google docs with the same info: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10b5Z3uWlnc9N9roBfSLVmu3aw-epCBZ5xbd8lUpQWtg/edit?usp=sharing If you have ideas for extending any of the themes, or would like to volunteer to work together with those who are listed as interested in the topics, please go ahead and attach your name—this is meant to be a working draft. (The Word .doc acts as the record of what happened.)
  1. THE CALL FOR 2015!

EASTERN COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
106th Annual Convention
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
April 22‐26, 2015
The Sheraton Society Hill Philadelphia, PA

Proposals Due Date: October 15, 2014
Community College Interest Group
CCIG Planner for 2015: Rebecca M. Townsend

Come one, come all! Send us your papers, program ideas, proposals by fall!

In 2015, we shall gather in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, to celebrate, interrogate, and engage in “Deliberation” with brothers and sisters in the discipline of Communication.

Long before the deadline of October 15, 2014, you will plan your proposal for ECA 2015. Proposals may be full papers, extended abstracts, panels, programs (wide variety: workshops, debates, roundtable discussions or multi-party deliberations on topics of broad interest, open forums, symposia, dramatic interpretations of historical deliberations), community programs or poster presentations….the limit is your imagination. Keep in mind that though the theme is “deliberation,” your proposal can create a space for it (rather than putting the word in the program title), or to explore it.

  • Paper submissions/extended abstracts: A single completed paper that reports original research, an extensive literature review, and/or other form of scholarship. Full papers or extended abstracts (with full papers written by one month before the conference for respondent review) can focus on work you are doing at your own college, scholarship of teaching and learning, or on the role of community colleges in U.S. education system more broadly. You could consider how national deliberations on the role of education involved CCs, or neglected CCs?
  • Panel: a finished grouping of papers, projects, or speakers where typically three to four panelists will present individual completed papers on a specific topic area; each panel will have a chair to introduce the individual papers/projects and then moderate the presentation discussion; respondent(s) should also be provided as deemed by the   panel members.
  • Program proposals: Please consider and specify how you will engage with other participants (aka ‘the audience’) in the program session.

o   Workshop Session: a program led by two or three experts on a particular topic with audience involvement and participation.

o   Debate: a traditional debate on an announced topic within pro and con statements and rebuttals.

o   Roundtable Discussion or Deliberations: a program featuring 5-8 presenters who briefly share a position paper or summary of recent research on a focused topic moderated by a chair with “on-the-spot” interaction and discussion by participants and audience.

o   Open Forum: a semi-structured public discussion of   predetermined topic of interest introduced and moderated by a chair. The goal of such a program is to share information, ideas, concerns, and special interests

o   Symposium: a program where three to five invited speakers present a predetermined section of specific topic introduced by a chair who initiates audience participation through questions and answers or in an open forum.

o   Dramatic Interpretations of Historical Deliberations:recreations and interpretations of historically significant deliberations, as they occurred, or as you imagined, based on scholarly inquiry, investigation, and interpretation.

  • Community Program: a structured program inviting the public to attend. It may take the form of a (popularly imagined) town hall meeting for open public discourse concerning a selected topic (perhaps related to the convention theme) or maybe even a performance-related program that engages communication scholarship and community interests.
  • Poster Presentations: Competitive Poster Presentations involve an author or group of authors standing next to a physical poster display that visually explains the focus of a current or in progress research project or paper in a room of several poster displays. ECA Participants will walk around the session to discuss the project with the authors and offer suggestions, comments, critiques, or insights about the project. This is an interactive session with the aim of improving the resulting status of the project. (You may even want to consider making a handout that summarizes your study to individuals who talk to you about your study.) Posters are “judged” on their ability to draw in discussants for a deliberative conversation, represent the research accurately, and for the merit of the research itself. Recognition is given to the top Posters.

Co‐sponsorship of panels between Interest Groups is especially encouraged and with a deliberation emphasis may be selected as a spotlight panel (see information below) or special submission. Potential co-sponsored panels should be submitted to the Primary Convention Planner (J. Kanan Sawyer: ecaphilly2015@gmail.com) as well as Interest Group Chairs for all potentially involved groups. As with paper and traditional panels, all co-sponsored panel submissions must go through peer-review and receive Interest Group acceptance. 

Spotlight Panel Submissions and Opportunities: Our ECA members have so much to offer and need opportunities to be heard by the larger community. We will “spotlight” five ECA 2015 sessions. These sessions will be Interest Group paper panels, basic course panels, special sessions, or any other submission where presenters are willing to share their ideas with a broader audience. Local media will be invited to cover these sessions and the sessions will be spotlighted in the program. Some sessions (with presenter consent) will also be part of our Second Life series, whereby ECA members at off-site locations will be able to participate “virtually” in our deliberative practices. Please indicate on your submission if you are willing or would like to have your paper or panel as part of our spotlight and/ or Second Life sessions.

Guidelines:

  1. Proposals should specify:
    • Participants’ willingness to participate in Spotlight Sessions
    • Indication of any Debut presenters/participants
    • If the paper is multi-authored paper, an asterisk identifies the presenter
    • Any requests for audio visual equipment (These must be made at the time of submission or they will not be met and these provisions are subject to availability.)
    • Statement of professional responsibility on the abstract page of papers and title page of other format submissions
  2. Chairs and respondents should be distinct participants; they cannot also serve as panelists. Should you need assistance, it’s my role to help!
  3. All participants should come from different institutions.
  4. ECA strongly values anonymous review of all types of submissions. To facilitate this, please remove all identifying information from your document. This means, for Word, going to File, Prepare for Sharing, Inspect Document for personal information, and removing it. It also involves not putting your name or affiliation on the proposal. I realize this can be difficult to do for some programming types or that affiliations may be necessary as part of the particulars of a panel, however, your cooperation with this effort will help ensure that your proposal is reviewed on its merits and the integrity of the process is strong.

Faculty, please consider sponsoring student submission to the Undergraduate Scholars’ Conference (in either the completed paper or poster of continuing research formats) as well as the Graduate Poster Sessions (these are due on December 19, 2014). Please look for a separate call for participants.

STATEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY 

In submitting the attached paper or proposal, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. If this submission is accepted and programmed, I/We agree to register for the 2015 ECA Convention, pay fees, and present in Philadelphia. I/We understand that presenters with last minute emergencies must make arrangements as possible for an alternate presenter as well as communicate their absences to both the Interest Group Planner and ECA VP; no shows will be removed from the official program.

Criteria for selection of Programs:

  1. The title of the submission is descriptive and inviting.
  2. The submission effectively addresses relevant communication concepts and/or skills and is organized in a coherent manner
  3. The submission clearly explains the conceptual framework for the program content.
  4. The submission is both well-thought out and written, free of grammar errors and mistakes.
  5. The program content is developed enough to provide participants a meaningful learning experience. The program content is not so narrowly focused that it would only appeal to a small number of people.
  6. The submission effectively and clearly explains the rationale for the program.
  7. The program content can be effectively delivered within the allotted 90 minute timeframe.

Hotel/Convention Site

The Sheraton Society Hill One Dock Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/ecaattendees
Phone: 215-238-6000 * Hotel Reservations: 888-627-7078 / 800-325‐3535

The ECA 2015 Philadelphia Planning Team’s contact information is available at http://www.ecasite.org.

Good luck & enjoy preparing those proposals. I look forward to helping to arrange a compelling slate of programs for ECA 2015!

Sincerely,

Becky

Rebecca M. Townsend, Ph.D., Professor of Communication
Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT 06045
Email: RTownsend@mcc.commnet.edu
Phone: 860-512-2685

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