The Sigma Tau Delta 2021 Virtual Convention will begin in just two days. Registration has closed and we look forward to welcoming everyone at the Welcome Social Meet at 7 p.m. CDT on Thursday, March 25. As you make your final preparations to join us virtually we would like to share with you everything you …
The Sigma Tau Delta 2021 Virtual Convention is one week away! As you begin to shift into convention mode and start to plan for next week take a look at the tips, tricks, and general best practices our Student Leaders have compiled to help you both attend and present at a virtual convention. And remember, …
The Sigma Tau Delta 2021 Virtual Convention has a lot to offer from a diverse collection of Roundtable Presentations to our two engaging Featured Speakers, Karen Auvinen and Michael Branch, to a series of regional networking sessions. Student Leadership is excited to contribute two social events to this year’s convention schedule. On Thursday evening the …
The Sigma Tau Delta 2021 Virtual Convention is fast approaching and we are looking forward to seeing everyone after having to cancel last year’s event in Las Vegas. However, many members continue to question why they should attend a virtual convention. What would a virtual convention consist of? What would I get out of it? …
One of the highlights of any Sigma Tau Delta convention is the opportunity to hear our Featured Speakers talk about their writing. In planning this year’s fully online convention we were determined to retain this key component of our event. Attendees of the Sigma Tau Delta 2021 Virtual Convention will have the pleasure of participating …
Our 2021 Common Reader, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Beauty by Karen Auvinen, begins with the author returning home to her cabin in the Colorado mountains and finding it aflame. She loses everything, from poems that she had written on paper and the countless files on her destroyed hard drive to her clothes and …
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One of the most challenging aspects of converting the traditional face-to-face Sigma Tau Delta Convention into a viable virtual experience has been determining which components to keep, which needed to be modified, and which ones simply wouldn’t work. From day one of virtual convention planning we knew we would be keeping the vastly popular Bad …
Our judges’ decisions about the submissions for the 2021 Virtual Convention have been made. Everyone who submitted a roundtable should have received an email from [email protected] today. Thank you to all of those who submitted; and to those who have been invited to present, let us offer our congratulations! If you received such an invitation, …
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When our 2021 Virtual Convention co-chairs asked us to reimagine the convention in the same ways that the pandemic has forced colleges and universities “to focus on the essentials of their mission,” they also invited Sigma Tau Delta’s membership to focus on the essentials of the convention. Paper presentations and creative writing presentations have always …
The 2021 Convention Theme, “Metamorphoses,” invites you to reflect on the many ways we are transformed throughout our lives. We are transformed by myriad personal experiences, including our education, our travel, and our tests. We are transformed by our reading and other aesthetic experiences that allow us to imagine other worlds and other selves. The …