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The mission of Central States Communication Association (CSCA) is to unite and educate people with both an affinity to the central region of the United States and a scholarly interest in all areas of communication for promotion of their mutual goals and advancement of their field.
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09/11/2026
2027 CSCA Call for Nominations ... Second Vice President and Executive Committee Member-at-Large Positions
Members of the CSCA Nominating Committee invite self and other nominations for Second Vice President and Executive Committee Member-at-Large positions. The Second Vice President will serve with members of the Executive Committee and will have the opportunity to plan the 2030 convention before assuming the presidency the following year. The Member-at-Large serves a two-year term on the CSCA Executive Committee, providing governance for the organization.
09/10/2026
2027 CSCA Jack Kay Award Call for Nominations
The Central States Communication Association invites nominations for the Jack Kay Award for Community Engagement and Applied Communication Scholarship. This award honors individual communication scholars (dyads and groups/teams are not eligible) who have demonstrated a significant record of applying their work to address social injustice, inequality, intolerance, and prejudice. It celebrates a substantial body of engaged, applied, and/or activist communication scholarship. A generous gift from the Michigan Association of Speech Communication makes this award possible.
09/09/2026
CSCA 2027 Federation Prize Call for Proposals
The Federation Prize promotes intellectual development and communication scholarship by awarding a cash prize of (up to) $5000 to selected research proposals authored by a CSCA member. If there are multiple submitters on a proposal, all authors must be current CSCA members.
09/08/2026
2027 CSCA Pearson and Nelson Award Call
We are now accepting nomination applications for the 2027 Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Pearson and Nelson Outstanding New Teacher Award. This award recognizes individuals early in their professional career who are showing distinction as teachers. Nominees may be teaching at any level from grade school through graduate school. The committee reserves the right to award several individuals at different academic levels (e.g., K-12, community college, university), so individuals from all types of institutions are encouraged to apply.
