NAD Expands College Bowl Competition

Posted March 19, 2008

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The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is pleased to announce the expansion of its College Bowl Competition, held during biennial conferences, to include a fourth team for the 2008 College Bowl Finals.

Ever since its inception in 1988, the College Bowl has involved the three charter teams, California State University at Northridge (CSUN), Gallaudet University, and National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID).

Since this is the first competition involving the expanded format, the fourth team will be added to compete with the existing charter teams. In 2010 and beyond, the NAD hopes to have a true competition format where no berths in the Finals are guaranteed.

With this announcement of the expanded format for the College Bowl Competition, the NAD is calling for new participants. 

Criteria for participation: 1) The team must be composed of deaf and hard of hearing, full-time undergraduate students, currently enrolled in four-year college or university. 2) The college or university must have at least 20 deaf or hard of hearing students currently enrolled. Interested schools will be screened to determine the fourth team. It is the desire of the NAD to involve teams representing colleges and universities with fairly large programs for deaf and hard of hearing undergraduate students to ensure continuity beyond 2008.

Interested programs and individuals are to contact the Youth Programs Coordinator, Jennifer Yost Ortiz at www.nad.org/contactus for more information including application information and College Bowl Rules and Guidelines. The deadline to express an interest is Friday, March 28, 2008.