Faculty

=7 Week Northwestern-Kentucky Faculty=


 * Dan Fitzmier** is the Director of Debate at Northwestern University and a member of the faculty in Northwestern's School of Communication. Dan was the coach of the 2011 National Debate Tournament winners and Top Speaker. He has coached the Final round of the N.D.T. on seven different occasions, with wins in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2011. In twelve seasons of coaching collegiate debate his teams have finished among the top three teams at the NDT twelve times, have won the Copeland Award four times, and have been ranked among the top 16 at-large bids to the N.D.T. twenty times. The 2012 Kentucky Debate Institute will be his 23rd summer debate institute.


 * Andrea Reed** is the Director of Debate at the University of Kentucky and the Director of the Tournament of Champions. Andrea is one of the rising stars in the college debate world. Prior to arriving at Kentucky, she was an assistant coach at Berkeley and Wake Forest University. She coached the 2008 N.D.T. Champions and the 2009 N.D.T. Finalists. She debated in college at Michigan State, reaching the elimination rounds of the NDT and CEDA national tournaments and in high school at Highland Park, TX, where she reached the semi-finals of the TOC. Andrea has taught at numerous summer debate institutes including Michigan State, Kentucky and Northwestern.


 * Dave Arnett** is the Head Debate Coach at the University of Kentucky. Prior to coaching at Kentucky, Dave was the Director of Debate at the University of California, Berkeley for twelve years where he coached 12 teams to first round-at-large bids to the National Debate Tournament. He has coached two NDT finalists, one CEDA national championship team, three Copeland Award winners, and the winners of almost every major college tournament including: Harvard, The Dartmouth Robin, Wake Forest, Kentucky, Northwestern, USC, Fullerton, and Gonzaga. Dave was named the National Coach of the Year in 2009 and voted runner-up for Coach of the Decade. Dave has directed debate institutes and taught labs at Emory, Berkeley, Stanford, Gonzaga, Kentucky, and Northwestern.


 * Jeff Buntin** is the Debate Coach at Northwestern University and is widely considered to be among the best coaches in college debate. He coached the 2011 National Debate Tournament champions at Northwestern as well as the 2010 runner-up. He has coached teams to win the Kentucky, Harvard, Wake Forest, Southern California, California State University – Fullerton, and Dartmouth College tournaments. Jeff designs and leads the overall research curriculum at the Kentucky and Northwestern Institutes. Several classes of students ranked have previously ranked his research lectures as the most helpful of the summer. Jeff has eight years of institute teaching experience at Whitman, Gonzaga, Kentucky, and Northwestern.




 * Garrett Albekop** is in his first year as the Director of Debate at Chattahoochee. Last year he was the Head Coach at Pine Crest where his teams won the national Florida Blue Key tournament and reached the elimination rounds at major high school tournaments including Emory's Barkley Forum. In 2010, Garrett was named assistant coach of the year for college debate's southeast region, coaching the Univerisity of Kentucky team to the quarter-finals of the 2010 National Debate Tournament. Previously a Michigan State debater, Garrett reached the elimination rounds of the NDT three years in a row, and was a frequent top-five speaker. In high school, Garrett reached the final round of the Tournament of Champions.