And The Academicians Of The Year Are ....

Could a school possibly do anything more than the University of Pittsburgh has done to enhance it's debating team? Yes, PLEASE read it and wait for it ... please!

Reid-Brinkley's Arrival Rounds Out Argumentation and Debate Dream Team

Shanara Reid (is the) newest faculty member in the Department of Communication. Reid comes aboard as a tenure-steam(sic) Assistant Professor and Director of Debate, with responsibility for steering Pittsburgh's intercollegiate policy debate team and developing her groundbreaking scholarly research program.

Reid-Brinkley's University of Georgia doctoral dissertation explores how debaters use innovative forms of argumentation, such as hip hop music, to challenge prevailing norms of argument practice and press for a more racially inclusive intercollegiate policy debate community. She holds an M.A. in Communication from the University of Alabama and a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University. As one of the first generation of students to participate in the U.S. Urban Debate League program, Reid-Brinkley starred for Therrell High School in Atlanta, GA. While debating for Emory as an undergraduate student, she qualified for the elimination rounds and won individual speaking awards at many major national tournaments, reaching the quarterfinals of the Cross Examination Debate Association's national championship. Her numerous debate honors include Baylor's Debater of the Year Award and the Southeastern Regional Debate Critic of the Year Award. Reid-Brinkley's research on the rhetorical, cultural and political dimensions of hip hop music has been presented at national conferences and selected competitively for inclusion in the "New Voices" panel sponsored by the Critical/Cultural Studies Division at the National Communication Association (NCA). She has been recognized as one of the field's top young scholars, being invited to attend the NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar. This remarkable level of research achievement is matched in classroom excellence; Reid-Brinkley received the S.P.A.R.K.S. Teaching Award and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award while at the University of Georgia.

Now watch and learn something about innovative forms of "argumentation."

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Great link Dan. I have rethought my support for the GI Bill. Our military veterans are too good for classes as goofy as this. Let's provide for degrees in hard sciences, technologies, foreign languages and math only. Humanities and the social sciences classes have ceased to be about anything but politics since about 1967.

[templar knight]

Wow, now we know what is wrong with the liberals who post here. They're a bunch of lunatics fresh from the asylum. This reminded me of a fight between the chimps on Chimp Eden. Please, someone break out a TASER, and use the damn thing on these idiotic liberals.

[SacTownMan]

I can't help wanting to sing "Moon Over Miami"!

Me thinkist professor Dead Head has taken one to many LSD trips!

I think this guy used to streak my high school football games in the 70's. I'd recognize that hairy ass anywhere!

But at least now we know the true identity of the Sock Puppet!

How'd that madrassa training go loser?

Allah Akbar Bro!

[dm60462]

His boss's email is ehammnod@fshu.edu I just sent him a nice note on why we would not consider his school for our sons, along with a link to the video.

[seekeronos]

How did our great halls of learning come to be dominated by such godless heathens and liberal idiotarians in the first place?

Perhaps some of our conservative think tanks ought to consider funding conservative academics much more aggressively - as well expanding on vouchers and other options for home school and private school students.

The past 50 years of the marxists and Che Guevara-lovers infesting our halls of higher learning have done incalculable amounts of damage to the many otherwise fine American minds who have traversed them, resulting in our present state of moral and intellectual decay.