NCA’s
89th Annual Meeting will be held November 19-23,
2003 in Miami Beach,
Florida. NCA
delegates will meet at three major Miami Beach hotels: The Fontainebleau
Hilton Resort, The Eden
Roc Resort & Spa, and The Wyndham
Miami Beach Resort.
All three hotels are located on Collins Avenue in
Miami Beach. Additional room accommodations at other nearby hotels have
also been reserved for the convention.
NCA First Vice President
Isa Engleberg, working in cooperation with over 100 NCA unit
and affiliate organization planners, has developed a
call for proposals centered around the theme of
"Reaching Out/Reaching In."
Reaching
Out underscores
NCA's recent and unprecedented efforts to reach out to other
disciplines, professional associations, educational
institutions, corporations, government agencies, non-profit
organizations, diverse communities, electronic and print
media, and the public at large.
Reaching In asks members to reach within and across the association
and discipline to form and strengthen scholarly partnerships
with communication colleagues.
Reaching
Out/Reaching In
encourages members to further explore the vistas opened by
recent convention themes.
By “coloring outside the lines,” becoming an
“engaged discipline,” reexamining and “radical(izing)
our roots,” and demonstrating “communication in
action,” NCA members can transform insular points of view
into broad-based perspectives that focus on
communication’s centrality in all human endeavors.
Reaching
Out/Reaching In
encourages convention planners to reach within the
discipline to colleagues in other divisions, sections,
commissions, caucuses, and affiliate organizations.
Units with seemingly disparate missions and interests
are urged to find common ground, to share and challenge each
other’s scholarship, to develop research, teaching, and
community service agendas, and to take up mutually
beneficial intellectual inquiries.
Call
for papers and panels
NCA
will use an online service to collect and process proposals
for programs at the 2003 convention. The service will
also be used to collect and process information about
competitive papers. The actual papers will not be
uploaded into the online system and should be submitted
to units in the manner described in their call.
The
online
version of the Call is available in searchable form and can be
browsed on a unit by unit basis.
Unit
Planners Guide
Isa
Engleberg has prepared a special guide for unit and
affiliate organization planners. To access the guide in PDF
format, please click here.
If you have difficulty accessing the document, please
contact Donna Porter.
