A few items to report:

Ballot
Several officers and two amendments are up for a vote. All ballots are due by midnight (central), Tuesday, January 10. Schools must be current CEDA members in order to vote. A current membership list is provided. The ballot is available at http://www.cedadebate.org/winter2011ballot

Voting requires an account on the main CEDA site (not the forums). If you need me to help with the account, please let me know. Please do not wait until late on the 10th to attempt to vote.

Membership fee payment
Payment can be made online through through either the CEDA or AFA websites.
(1) CEDA: http://cedadebate.org/node/966
(2) AFA: http://americanforensics.org/catalog/8

Member List
The following is a list of CEDA members for 2011-2012. If you believe your school is a current member, but you are not on the list, please contact Jeff: jeffrey.jarman@wichita.edu.

Allen County CC
Arizona State Univ
Bard College
Boston College
Cal Poly SLO
Clarion Univ
Columbia
Concordia College
CSU Chico
CSU Fresno
CSU Northridge
CSU Sacramento
Dartmouth College
Fairleigh Dickinson
Fayetteville State Univ
Florida International Univ
Florida State Univ
Georgia Military College
Georgia Perimeter College
Hutchinson CC
Idaho State Univ
Illinois State Univ
Indiana
James Madison Univ
Johns Hopkins
Liberty Univ
Louisiana Lafayette
Macalester College
Mott CC
Neosho County CC
Northwestern Univ
Ocean County College
Oral Roberts Univ
Penn Valley CC
Pepperdine Unv
Samford Univ
San Francisco State Univ
Tyler CC
Univ of Central Florida, Nicholson
Univ of District of Columbia
Univ of Florida
Univ of Georgia
Univ of Kentucky
Univ of Mary Washington
Univ of Northern Iowa
Univ of Rochester
Univ of Southern California
Univ of Texas
Univ of Texas at Dallas
University of Oregon
Unv of Notre Dame
Virginia Commonwealth Univ
Wayne State Univ
Whitman College
Wichita State Univ

Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.

The ballot is now available. It can be accessed online at: http://www.cedadebate.org/1112resballot

All ballots are due by midnight (Central), Wednesday, July 13. The winning resolution will be announced on Friday, July 15.

2010-2011 membership is required to vote. You must have an account on the main CEDA site that is authorized to vote in order to access the ballot.

Email me if you have trouble with the site or need assistance with the ballot.

2011-2012 Ballot Results

66 schools voted. Democracy assistance was selected as the controversy. Dan Bagwell was selected as the student representative. A complete breakdown of voting follows.

First-place votes, initial count:

Infrastructure: 11
Treaties: 12
Taxes: 6
Financial Institutions: 2
Prisons: 4
India: 10
Education: 5
Democracy Assistance: 16

Financial institutions was eliminated and the first-place votes were transferred.

Infrastructure: 11
Treaties: 12
Taxes: 6
Prisons: 4
India: 11
Education: 5
Democracy Assistance: 17

The ballot for the current controversy and student representative to the topic committee is now available. The ballot is online at: http://www.cedadebate.org/may2011ballot

Current CEDA members are eligible to vote. If you didn't pay your dues, we can help. You can pay by check or online with a credit card. But, you'll need to be a 2010-2011 member in order to vote.

Ballots are due no later than midnight, May 15 (central). Results will be announced on May 16.

A few reminders:

(1) STUDENT REP TO THE TOPIC COMMITTEE -- REMINDER

We are now accepting nominations for the student representative to the topic committee. The student should be available to attend the topic meeting at the University of Michigan June 11-13 as well as participate in the committee's research and discussions leading up to the meeting. Nominations will be open until midnight, April 14th and may be sent directly to me at kathrynrubino@gmail.com. Once the slate of nominees is set the executive secretary will hold the election in accordance with Ceda rules.

(2) TROPHIES

The following is a list of paid members for 2010 - 2011. The list is current as of today and does include two payments made online with CEDA Nationals registration.

If you need to pay, you can pay with cash/check at registration or you can pay online with a credit card at http://www.cedadebate.org/store.

Membership must be paid by the start of the tournament in order to compete and earn awards (sweeps or individual). In addition, 2010-2011 membership is required to vote for next year's resolution.

If there is a mistake, please let me know.

Jeff

Allen County CC

Two important deadlines:

(1) ENTRIES: The CEDA Executive Committee is extending the regular entry deadline until this Sunday (March 6th) after that (until March 11th) there will be a late fee accessed to each entry. Eligibility documents will also be accepted until the 6th (if you are at Towson this weekend you can just hand them to Mike there).

(2) AWARDS: All award nominations are due Thursday, March 3 by midnight. Entries can be submitted online at http://www.cedadebate.org. Login and avoid the CAPTCHA.

Jeff

The published proceedings of the 2009 Summer Developmental Conference are available.
Copies of the last three volumes of Contemporary Argumentation and Debate also are available.
Special thanks to Al Louden for editing all of this work.

The new CEDA ballot is available at http://www.cedadebate.org/winter2010ballot

Each member school may vote. Ballots are due by midnight, Friday, December 30.

The ballot includes elections for 2nd VP, topic committee, Treasurer, Executive Secretary and four regional representatives.

There are nine amendments for consideration.

Two amendments were tabled at the NCA meeting (number of awards & student reps). Two were withdrawn as unnecessary.

Sarah Partlow-Lefevre will handle the final voting. Any question regarding your ballot should be directed to her.