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Award Guidelines

 

Nominations, including self-nominations, are invited for all Southern States Communication Association awards.  Nominees must be SSCA members in good standing.

For all SSCA awards , a single letter of nomination is required.  Although this may be written by the nominee, most nomination letters are written by colleagues who know the nominee and their qualifications well.
 

For all SSCA awards except the Minority Retention and Recruitment Award, the nominee's curriculum vita is required (the MRRA honors an institution, so a CV would not be appropriate).

For all SSCA awards, except the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award, a maximum of three (3) supporting letters and five (5) pages of additional supporting documentation may be submitted, but are not required. 

Submission Process

In all cases, electronic submission is preferred- send to the Chair of the relevant award committee by December 5th.  If electronic submission poses a hardship or for any supplementary materials that cannot be submitted electronically, the nominator must have the nomination packet or supplementary materials delivered to all members of the relevant committee by the submission deadline.

Award Policies

  1. Recipients of all eleven Association Awards (named above) receive plaques and luncheon tickets.  These awards are presented by the chair (or other member) of the Award committee at the Association's Award luncheon. 
  2. Each recipient of a "major" award from a division that offers one (e.g., Argumentation and Forensics Div has the "Forensic Contributor/Educator," Gender Studies Div has the "Gender Scholar," Communication Theory & Research Methodology Div has the "Outstanding Scholar," Freedom of Speech Div has the "1st Amendment Article of the Year," and Performance Studies Div has the "Performance Scholar") will receive a certificate. These awards may be presented by the Division Chair or Vice Chair at the Division's business meeting or during a Top Paper Panel. 
  3. Recipients of "Top Paper" and "Top Student Paper" awards given by Division and Interest Groups will receive certificates with covers, which are given at the business meeting of the Division or Interest Group or during the Top Paper Panel.
  4. All of the above awards are to be financed out of the Association's general revenues.