36th Annual Samford University Summer Forensics Institute
The 2010 Samford Summer Debate Institute -
2010 Advanced Policy Scholars Application
Our directors this year:
***This year we will be offering a third week of intensive policy debate training called "Dr. Galloway's Advanced Policy Scholars." This is an optional third week of training for policy debaters with our top faculty members, headed by Dr. Galloway. This special session will run from July 11 - 17, 2010. It is a high-intensity strategy session with emphasis on researching specific strategies against affirmatives at other camps and further developing the skills needed to be a successful policy debater on the national circuit. This is a rare and unique opportunity to train with one of the nation's top debate minds. Dr. Galloway has coached teams in the elimination rounds of every major national tournament (including the NDT), has published articles on debate and argumentation in leading journals, and is consistently one of the highest ranked debate judges in the country. In order to maintain the quality of training during this third week, we are limiting enrollment to only 12 students. Dr. Galloway will hand-pick the 12 students and offer them this amazing opportunity by June 1, 2010.
Policy: Dr. Ryan Galloway of Samford University
Lincoln-Douglas: Mr. Jay Rye of The Montgomery Academy
Public Forum: Mr. Ben Osborne of Vestavia Hills High School
Director of Residence Life: Mr. William Woods Tate of Montgomery Bell Academy
Director of the Institute: Abi Williams of Samford University
For immediate information, contact:
Abi Williams
Samford University
Birmingham, AL 35229
(205) 726-2049 or awilliam@samford.edu
Check out our 2010 Senior Policy Staff
*Policy Director – Dr. Ryan Galloway*
Dr. Galloway debated for George Mason University, and qualified for the National Debate Tournament three times, advancing to the elimination rounds as a junior and senior. He received numerous top ten speaker awards at major national circuit tournaments including the top speaker award at the 1993 Kentucky Tournament. As a coach, Dr. Galloway has coached teams to the late elimination rounds of every major national tournament in the country, including numerous teams to the deep elimination rounds of the National Debate Tournament. In 2005, Dr. Galloway coached the National Debater of the Year. He has judged the final round of the National Debate Tournament in 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2006, was named the fifth highest ranked judge in the country at the 2004 Wake Forest Debate Tournament, and was named the fifth best judge in the country in the 2006 Debater's Choice Awards. He has been the critic of the year for the Southeast CEDA region, the critic of the year for the North Central region, and was named the graduate student of the year for District Six in 2002. Dr. Galloway also wrote the college topic paper for the winning 2006-2007 college debate resolution. He is currently an assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at Samford University.
*Senior Lecturer – Miss Marissa Silber*
Miss Silber, M.A, is the former Policy Debate Coach at the University of Florida and a PhD Candidate in Political Science. She taught in the top lab at the University of Michigan Debate Institute for the past several years, so we are excited to have her here with us for a second year! After attending Glenbrook North High School, Miss Silber attended the University of Southern California on a debate scholarship. While there, she qualified three times for the National Debate Tournament. Miss Silber was a Graduate Assistant at University of Florida for four years, where she coached varsity teams that qualified for the NDT and elimination rounds of the Cross Examination Debate Association National Tournament and junior varsity and novice teams that won several tournaments. In March of 2008, Miss Silber was awarded the Matthew Grindy Outstanding Graduate Assistant Coach Award. She has worked as an assistant coach for several highly successful high schools and the Southern California Urban Debate League Institute.
*Senior Lecturer –Mr. Mike Maffie*
Mr. Maffie was one of the highest rated lab leaders to ever teach at the Samford Institute. This will be his third year with us and we are thrilled to have him back! He is a three-time National Debate Tournament qualifier. In his three years debating at Miami of Ohio, he was the two-time winner of the Augustana tournament. Also, he earned speaker awards at multiple tournaments, including ADA Nationals, John Carroll and the Northern Iowa Season Opener. In high school, Mr. Maffie qualified for the Tournament of Champions and, as a junior, was in the semi-finals of the Montgomery Bell Academy tournament. Last year, he co-authored the winning college topic paper on the Middle East. He currently coaches at Cornell.
*Lab Leader – Mr. Skip Coulter*
We are so honored to be joined once again by Mr. Coulter, member of Alabama Debate Hall of Fame. Mr. Coulter has over 40 years of coaching experience. He has coached college teams to elimination rounds of every major national tournament as well as two teams to the semi-finals of the National Debate Tournament. He is currently a coach at Mountain Brook High School where he increased the number of TOC bids from zero to three in one year. He is also the Guru of the Samford Debate Institute Softball Game.
***These top-notch lecturers will be assisted by Samford's most competitively successful debaters; including NDT qualifiers and people who are currently debating in elimination rounds at national tournaments.
