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06/11/2009
ECA - Community College Interest Group 2010 Call for Papers
Eastern Communication Association
Community College Interest Group
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 101st annual convention of the Eastern Communication Association will be held at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor, April 22-25, 2010. The theme of this year's convention is "Charting a Course: Meeting New Horizons." As Janie Harden Fritz, First Vice President and convention planner, explains, this year's theme "invites members to cast a vision forward to what might spring forth with the meeting of new horizons, in the "between" of past and future, defining a new and ever elusive "now"... [as ECA begins it's second century] let this theme draw us forward to submit papers and panels that chart new courses to meet new horizons, imagining what our future may hold."
With the theme in mind, I encourage you to submit your ideas for panels and roundtables to me by October 15, 2009. At our business meeting in Philadelphia we discussed the following ideas for panels: professional development at the community college, introducing graduate students to teaching at a community college, and overcoming the disciplinary perspective of the community college. If you are interesting in any of these panel ideas, or if you have others, please contact me at msimpson@csmd.edu.
In addition to the panels and roundtables, we will be presenting a roundtable discussion as part of the Focus on the Future Series being held at the convention. If you are interested in being a part of the discussion, please let me know.
And, as always, we will be sponsoring the G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Speech) program. If you have a great idea and would like to be a part of the G.I.F.T.S. panel, please contact Jessica Papajcik at JPapajcik@starkstate.edu.
Thank you for your interest in the Community College Interest Group. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Michelle Simpson
Community College Interest Group Co-Chair
Professor of Speech Communication
College of Southern Maryland
8730 Mitchell Rd. PO Box 910
La Plata, MD 20646
(301) 934-7868
