2025 Conference Call for Submissions

CALL FOR CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS

The Ohio Communication Association is now accepting proposals for its 89th annual conference on October 10th and 11th. The conference is scheduled to take place at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. OCA will communicate a final decision to those who submitted to the conference in July. The theme for this year’s conference is “Breaking Barriers Through the Art of Connection.”

U.S.-based and international communication professionals, faculty, administrators, undergraduate, and graduate students are invited to attend the conference and are encouraged to submit proposals. The conference planning committee would like to showcase diverse creative and valuable ideas in our G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Students) sessions, research presentations, poster sessions, themed panel discussions/presentations that are academic or applied/business-focused, performances, and hands-on workshops and short courses. Cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration is strongly encouraged.

Submissions are encouraged in the following areas:

  • G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Students)
  • Teaching, research, or practice challenges
  • Completed or in-progress research projects
  • Program assessment and issues of accreditation
  • Statewide issues or concerns for the discipline
  • Further developing OCA to meet the needs of its constituents
  • Specific university, private college, community college, or high school issues or concerns
  • Workshops for undergraduate or graduate success in the discipline
  • Hands-on workshops on topics relating to research or to specific topic areas (matters of diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or belonging, technology in the classroom, best practices for teaching online, using a flipped classroom, the at-risk student, etc.)

Please see specific guidelines below for individual submission types.

If you have further questions or need assistance, please contact OCA Conference Coordinators Melissa Cumberbatch (mcumberbatch@cscc.edu) or Seth Smith (ssmit100@cscc.edu).

Submission Types (Details)

The deadline for conference submissions is Saturday, May 31