CEDA Summer Conference Brainstorming Notes

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Here are the notes from our Brainstorming session at the CEDA Summer
Conference at Wheaton. This gives you an idea of our ideas and concerns.

Thanks to David Berube for typing these up and sending them to me.


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SUMMER CONFERENCE BRAINSTORMING

WORLD DEBATE SUMMIT
Teaching/Education of Argumentation and Debate 
for the Next Millennium
June 1999

FEAR OF SPLINTERING
 - organizations
 - relationships
 - lack of coordination
 - professional community lacks training

MAKING DEBATE OPEN
 - new people/student/coaches
 - new schools
 - well-rounded students
  - students/programs move to other formats; policy debating is too
  time consuming
 - reward/respect creativity and risk
 - barriers to graduate students

AFTER DEBATE
 - success, leadership, happiness
 - appropriate skills and training
 - data collection/product assessment
 - $10K/year card cutters

ADVOCATES FOR OUR PEDAGOGY
 - articulate positives
 - articulate and sell
 - misperception by students and coaches
 - publicity/media
  - meet to rethink our past; we may have caused all of this

IMPLEMENTING OUR IDEAS
 - need to be entrepreneurial 
  - instead of just complaining, solving, then forgetting
 - problems with our business meetings
 - taking organizational risks
 - more coaching involvement in organization
 - no follow through
 - more time to work/implement
 - committees fail after the meeting
 - require responsible training

TOO MUCH TOP FOCUS
 - inverse relationship
 - occupational psychosis
  - no time for anything else - students & coaches

PROGRAM CHANGES
 - switch from tenure line to staff
 - switch from dept. to student organizations
 - direct academically oriented programs
 - rich/poor gap
 - information access

DIVERSITY GOALS
 - focus and improvements, but
 - long way to go
 - gay & lesbian students
 - coach diversity

HOW DO WE DO?
 - more rewards for service
 - triage our concerns
 - goal & time line for the tasks
 - comm time/blame
 - reg committee
 - make results/work public & useful
 - train regional reps.

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