Regional Association News

Regional News
February 8, 2022

CSCA

CSCA 2022 Convention – Registration Now Open!

2022 Central States Communication Association Annual Conference

Re-Connect

Madison, Wisconsin

March 30 – April 3, 2022

Registration for the 2022 convention is now open! Click here to start your journey to Re-Connect at #CSCA22.

For the 2022 convention, CSCA has developed convention safety protocols based on data-driven best practices for meetings and events. Read about them here.

  • All convention attendees must either be fully vaccinated (at least two weeks out from your second dose of a two-dose vaccine series or your single dose of a one-dose vaccine series) or provide proof of a negative test dated no earlier than March 28, 2022. Following current CDC guidance, a booster is not required to be considered fully vaccinated. Prior to the convention, registrants will be emailed information about how to verify their vaccination or test result in a secure and HIPAA compliant way.
  • Masks must be worn while inside the conference space (e.g., indoor common areas, session rooms, exhibit hall, etc.).
  • Rapid antigen tests will be available in the registration area upon request, with results in 15 minutes.

Attendees who register by February 25 will receive the special “Early Bird” rate. The sooner we know how many supplies are needed and how much food to order, the more we can save as an organization. We are always happy to pass these savings along to members when we can. Remember, those who do not register online before the convention will have to pay an additional onsite fee with their registration, as well as the regular convention rate.

Convention registrants will also be asked to indicate which events they wish to attend. This year, we have a Thursday night opening reception at the hotel, as well as a Saturday night lecture and president’s party at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA).

Register for a hotel room at the Madison Concourse Hotel here.

A limited number of Governor's Club Level rooms are available. If you are interested in booking a Governor's Club Level room, please call the hotel at 1-800-356-8293 to reserve your room.

This hotel provides a complimentary airport shuttle to and from the Dane County Regional Airport.

If you have not followed us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), now would be the time. We will be showcasing what you can look forward to when we Re-Connect at #CSCA22. The leaders of CSCA have been hard at work planning and organizing this year’s event. We are excited to see you there.

Looking forward to Re-Connecting with you in Madison!

ECA

ECA 2022

Please join us for the 113th Annual ECA Convention. 

2022 Eastern Communication Association Conference

(Re)union 

Philadelphia Marriott Old City 

April 7 - 9, 2022

The 2022 ECA convention will be an opportunity for (re)union! If all goes well, the 2022 convention will be our first “in person” ECA after two years of being unable to gather our community together. We seek to make ECA 2022 an occasion of joyous reconnection and opportunity to build new connections among our community members. We also seek to make ECA 2022 a location of reflection, deliberation, and learning as we emerge from the global pandemic and consider how we as Communication educators and scholars will contribute to a post-pandemic world.

Register by March 1, 2022, to receive a discounted rate.

For more info, go to:
https://www.ecasite.org/aws/ECA/pt/sp/convention_home

Reminder: ECA Awards Submission Deadline

ECA Officers encourage submissions to these awards by the deadline of February 15, 2022!

You can view the Award Nomination details here or by clicking on the name of the award below.

We hope that you will take a moment to review the criteria for each available award listed above and consider nominating yourself or an ECA colleague for an award.

SSCA

Southern States Communication Association 92nd Annual Conference 

Resilience Through Resistance

Greenville, South Carolina

April 6 - 10, 2022

The 92nd Annual Southern States Communication Association conference, themed “Resilience Through Resistance,” will be held at The Hyatt Regency in Greenville, South Carolina, April 6 - 10, 2022. Like everything else in the world, SSCA came to a screeching halt in the spring of 2020 in response to the COVID epidemic that paralyzed the world. All that was normal became foreign, forcing us to create a new semblance of normalcy. This was further complicated by the racial pandemic that plagued the United States in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor due to police. These dual pandemics presented us with many unimaginable challenges. Despite these traumatic events, we have all shown resilience in the face of resistance. The year 2020 has gone down in history as one of the most unfathomable, unjust, and deadliest years known to humankind.

The 2022 Southern States Communication Association conference affords us the opportunity to showcase the many ways that we as well as our students, community members, and others gathered the wherewithal to make it through and rise above the many obstacles thrown our way since March2020. Now, we have the wonderful opportunity to translate those difficulties into victories by showcasing the many ways that people either sought or found resilience. As Communication scholars, we should engage in self-reflexivity and take this moment to consider how our scholarship, pedagogy, and service contribute to a field that is germane to every facet of human life throughout the world.

For more information, contact Dr. Tina M. Harris, Vice-President and Program Planner by email at tharris4@lsu.edu. We look forward to seeing you in Greenville, SC in 2022!

WSCA

WSCA is happy to announce the results of our 2021 election:

  • First Vice President: Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico
  • Second Vice President: Anthony Cuomo, West Los Angeles College
  • Legislative Assembly Members-at-Large:
    • Anuraj Dhillon, California Polytechnic State University
    • Stephanie Hartzell, California State University, Long Beach
    • Amy Hubbard, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    • Pavithra Prasad, California State University, Northridge
    • Alyssa Samek, California State University, Fullerton

Congratulations to the winners!