1780 – The Official Blog of Transylvania University
Transy students and volunteers spend their time helping youths develop academically and socially, building positive, meaningful relationships with the children to encourage healthy growth toward success.
Introducing the local community members who volunteer their time to serve as chapter advisors for Transy’s Greek organizations.
For the Class of 2022, the most diverse in Transylvania’s history, their emergence from an often homogeneous past to a multi-dimensional present, from what was to what can be, is already reshaping their understanding of each other and themselves.
Transy students spend their Monday evenings at the Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center helping produce the show, which airs on 537 radio stations across the globe.
Speech and Debate To the average person in 2017, the word “debate” may conjure up groans and eye rolls. Whether it’s politicians hurling insults back and forth, or sports analysts on TV yelling over top of each other, it’s no secret the state of debate in popular culture doesn’t quite harken back to the days of Lincoln and Douglas. But if you want to see debate in its purest form, a group of Transylvania students has been making a splash on the national scene for years. The Transylvania speech and debate team is coached by writing, rhetoric and communication professor Gary Deaton and is in the midst of a remarkable run of success in regional, state and national tournaments. Transy participates in seven or eight speech and debate competitions per year. Speech events include prepared speeches, limited preparation speeches and interpretation. On the debate side, Transy competes in National Parliamentary Debate Association (two-on-two) and International Parliamentary Debate Association (one-on-one). While the team has had success in just about every event you could imagine, it’s the limited preparation events where the students really shine. During the draw, they are assigned a topic, and after 15 or 30 minutes of preparation, they give a presentation or debate another team. They are judged in preliminary rounds, and then the top teams are seeded and move on to the elimination rounds. Transy has had a team in the top 10 or elimination rounds just
