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Re: CALL FOR MEMBERS - PROFESSIONALISM COMM

PLEASE contact Berube if you wish to participate in the work of the 
CEDA Professionalism Committee.

VISION - The committee is collecting, collating, and designing 
information in statistical and narrative form to assist directors in 
promoting themselves and their programs.  We are open to any 
suggested direction for future research.

BENEFITS - The results of this committee will be posted on the CEDA 
Web site and will be published.  It is an excellent opportunity to 
receive joint publishing credits toward promotion and tenure.

RESERVATION - We want people who are willing to meet deadlines and 
complete the assignments.

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP -
David Berube (South Carolina) chair
Greg Simerly (SIU)
Terry West (SUSU)

UPCOMING PROJECTS -

1. Collected promotion materials on the value of debate in the 
curriculum of higher education (Simerly)

2. IMPACT OF TOURNAMENTS ON LOCAL ECONOMIES, PART2 (Berube, Simerly & 
West).

3. STATE OF DEBATE 1997.  A report on directors, support personnel, 
operating budgets, financial assistance for debaters and support 
personnel associated with the top 50 programs in 1997 (Berube)

4. PROGRAM ATTRITION AND PARTICIPATION REPORT (Berube) A. sample 
includes programs which stopped paying dues within the last two (2) 
years yet paid dues more than half the time during the previous seven (7) years.  Also included will be programs at risk
which will include programs who participated in fewer than six (6) tournaments during the last two (2) years.
B. surveys are a seven (7) question Lichert scale with an eighth open 
question.

5. RESOURCES REPORT (Berube)  A. submit lists of relevant factors which committee will reduce; B. narrative with executive summary will be produced.
C. correlate with Rogers' data; D. annual resources data collected at NATIONALS.

4. FUTURE ALUMNI REPORT (West)  A. at NATIONALS, question graduating students about willingness and likelihood to be contributing alumni to the colleges and
universities at which they debated as undergraduates. B. report findings as a program budget resource document. 

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David M. Berube, Ph.D.
Dir., Carolina Debate &
Assoc. Prof., Speech Communication
University of South Carolina 29208
803-777-6663, fax 803-777-0055
Archive created by Jonathan Stanton (jonathan@cs.jhu.edu)
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