Council of Forensic Organizations

The Council of Forensic Organizations is an intercollegiate organization consisting of representatives of various national speech and debate organizations. COFO was started in 1984 to increase dialogue between the organizations. One of the main purposes of COFO was to create a national tournament calendar. However, COFO has also become involved with general issues related to the intercollegiate speech and debate communities.

Information about joining college programs, and reasons to be in college forensics:

• 2010-2011 Calendar (version 4 - August 30, 2010)
  • Submit your tournament information to the COFO calendar.
• Allen Louden's guide to selecting a college debate program (also lots of good information for individual events as well)
• Other items will soon be added.

The Individual Events Summit and Developmental Conference took place August 5-7, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Express, Bloomington, Minnesota. The conference The conference will be a forum for active coaches, directors and students, to examine commonality and the development of assessment guidelines for forensic programs and tournaments. The energetic participation of all members of the individual events community - present and past – who find virtue in the power of forensic education are encouraged to attend.

Past IE Developmental conference information can be found at: http://www.mnsu.edu/cmst/ndc-ie/

Here's a partial list of some of the items coming to the COFO site:

1. Links to promotion and tenure documents and guides for directors of forensics.
2. Information about starting forensics programs at colleges and universities.
3. Links to rules of various organizations.

Suggestions for additional content for the COFO website are gratefully appreciated,