Oregon Debates is a series of public debates and panel discussions designed by Honors College students living in Global Scholars Hall for the benefit of the entire Honors College community and other students, faculty, and members of the local community.

Oregon Debates provides two specific opportunities CHC students: event planning and event participation.This high-profile series is a unique addition to your professional and academic resume that combines academics, event planning, administrative, and event promotion experience along with extraordinary networking opportunities.

Oregon Debates is co-sponsored by the Clark Honors College, University Forum, and Oregon Forensics.

In the first event in the series, two Oregon debate team members, Drew Escalante and CHC student Sean McKean debated against the British National Team of the English Speaking Union, Chessy Whalen and Matthew Wilmore. Oregon defended the proposition “The United States should significantly increase its military presence in Syria” and the British opposed.

Oregon Debate v. British National Team, 10/4/2015

Future events

If you are interested in either planning or participating in an Oregon Debates event please provide your Oregon email in the form below:

 

Event planning

A small group of CHC students in GSH is needed to plan at least two public events for the Winter and Spring 2016 terms. The members of the planning team will be responsible for creating quality educational experiences for their peers through public events hosted in the Great Room (GSH123).

Specific responsibilities include:

• Creating events, including choosing topics and presentation formats
• Recruiting and selecting event participants among peer students
• Designing an effective promotional campaign drawing a large and diverse audiences and securing campus and local media coverage
• Cooperating with relevant partners across campus
• Coordinating with CMET to ensure high-quality digital media capture of the event for the UO Channel and university archives

 

Event participation

Participants are needed for the events in the Oregon Debates series. The planning group is ultimately responsible for choosing participants to create the most educational experiences possible for their peers. To be consistent with the mission of the CHC, Forum, and Forensics sponsors, priority for participation should be given to CHC students living in the Global Scholars Hall.

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