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BEA\u2019s interest divisions host a variety of unique competitions that go beyond traditional research presentations. The following competitions are designed to showcase creativity, innovation, teaching excellence, and professional practice across multiple areas of media and communication.\u00a0 If you are interested in BEA Interest Division traditional paper competitions, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Curriculum, Assessment & Administration Division Law & Policy Division<\/strong> Service Learning & Community Engagement Division Student Media Advisors Division Two-Year College and Scholastic Division Writing Division [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BEA\u2019s interest divisions host a variety of unique competitions that go beyond traditional research presentations. The following competitions are designed to showcase creativity, innovation, teaching excellence, and professional practice across multiple areas of media and communication.\u00a0 If you are interested in BEA Interest Division traditional paper competitions, click here. Curriculum, Assessment & Administration DivisionDeadline: December 15\u200bDo you have an innovative idea for assessment?\u00a0 Share your great ideas for assessment, as IGNITE Your Assessment (formerly GIFA) teams up with BEA’s longtime, successful IGNITE teaching initiative to boost faculty assessment in all its forms. We invite concise abstracts (250 words maximum) describing creative approaches to assignment assessment, program evaluation, or accreditation-related measurement tools. Selected participants will use IGNITE’s presentation format of 5 minutes and 20 slides to showcase their ideas during the IGNITE Your Assessment session at BEA\u2019s annual convention. More information is coming soon! Law & Policy DivisionDeadline: December 15The Law & Policy Division invites BEA graduate student members and new\u00a0and early-career\u00a0faculty BEA members to submit their\u00a0research for the Law & Policy Division Research Competition.\u00a0This competition recognizes outstanding research that advances understanding of electronic media law, regulation, governance, and policy including (but not limited to) broadcasting, streaming platforms, telecommunications, digital speech, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bea2027"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101363"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101753,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101363\/revisions\/101753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/conv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Deadline: December 15
<\/strong>\u200bDo you have an innovative idea for assessment?\u00a0<\/em> Share your great ideas for assessment, as IGNITE Your Assessment<\/strong> (formerly GIFA) teams up with BEA’s longtime, successful IGNITE teaching initiative to boost faculty assessment in all its forms. We invite concise abstracts (250 words maximum) describing creative approaches to assignment assessment, program evaluation, or accreditation-related measurement tools. Selected participants will use IGNITE’s presentation format of 5 minutes and 20 slides to showcase their ideas during the IGNITE Your Assessment session at BEA\u2019s annual convention. More information is coming soon!<\/p>\n
Deadline: December 15<\/strong>
The Law & Policy Division invites BEA graduate student members and new<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and early-career\u00a0<\/span>faculty BEA members to submit their\u00a0<\/span>research<\/span> for the Law & Policy Division Research Competition<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>This competition recognizes outstanding research that advances understanding of electronic media law, regulation, governance, and policy including (but not limited to) broadcasting, streaming platforms, telecommunications, digital speech, media institutions, AI and media regulation, privacy, intellectual property, and emerging policy\u00a0challenges.<\/span> The recipient receives a $1,000 award and a $1,000 travel stipend.\u00a0 Click here for more information.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Deadline: December 15<\/strong>
The Service Learning & Community Engagement division sponsors a Service Learning Showcase<\/strong> of projects so we can share ideas, assignments, and experiences. Two people will receive $250 each for projects that demonstrate exemplary Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning.\u00a0 Projects will be judged on how the educator practices community-engaged teaching and learning by going beyond classroom experiences to connect theory and practice for students, collaborating with communities to design, implement, and evaluate research solutions to solve problems, and enabling students to reflect critically on their experiences while investing in their own education. More information coming soon.<\/p>\n
Deadline: December 15<\/strong>
Dr. Marjorie Yambor Signature Station<\/strong>: The Signature Station Competition is sponsored by BEA\u2019s Student Media Advisors (SMA) interest division.\u00a0 The competition invites submissions of superior protocol and practices at student-run, faculty-advised college radio and television stations.\u00a0 The main mission is to identify and impart areas of excellence in the hands-on facilitation of station functions such as philosophical engagement, community involvement, programming arrangement, branding\/logo development, student management, volunteer recruitment, and broadcast equipment. Each radio and television station 1st place winner will receive a check for $200, two complimentary student registrations and will be recognized in Las Vegas at BEA\u2019s convention.\u00a0 Click here for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n
Deadline: December 15
Innovative Teaching and Learning Awards:<\/strong> The Two-Year College and Scholastic<\/strong> interest division offers a call for submissions from 2-year College, and high school faculty, highlighting your best class assignments\/activities!\u00a0 We are looking for your best ideas for <\/span>successful and practical projects, or in-class activities that improve student learning.\u00a0 Assignments and activities could come from any course you teach under the umbrella of radio, audio, TV, video, film, digital media, scriptwriting, broadcasting, or mass communication.\u00a0 Basically, if it is a course consistent with the mission of BEA, it\u2019s eligible for submission.\u00a0 More information coming soon.<\/span><\/p>\n
Deadline: December 15<\/strong>
Show Bibles Competition:<\/strong> The Writing<\/strong> interest division offers a series bible competition for a television show that includes a detailed treatment of the pilot episode, character descriptions, season 1 outline, and season 2-5 summary. The final document should not exceed 25 pages.\u00a0 More information coming soon.<\/span><\/p>\n