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:
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.
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.
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:
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:
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