IFDTC Conference

Sunday, May 18 - Wednesday, May 21, 2008

HOTEL MONTELEONE
214 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA 70130-2201
Phone 504-523-3341

Registration fee $475 before April 15, 2008
after April 15th $575 and on a space available basis

2008 Program
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2008 Presentations
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Keynote Speaker

Kathleen A. FrankovicKATHLEEN A. FRANKOVIC is Director of Surveys and Producer for CBS News, where she has major responsibility for the design, analysis and broadcasting of results from CBS News and CBS News/New York Times polls. Since 1996, she has been a Senior Producer for CBS News election coverage, and served on the 3-person panel evaluating CBS News 2000 election night broadcast. Since 2002, she has managed the CBS News Decision Desk, projecting outcomes in state and national elections.

She is a co author of The Election of 1980, The Election of 1992, and The Election of 2000 (all published by Chatham House), and has published many articles on elections and public opinion, include "Sex and Politics: New Alignments, Old Issues," one of the first academic analyses of the gender gap. She also speaks and writes extensively about the development and use of polling by newspapers and television.

Frankovic has been the President of both the World Association for Public Opinion Research and the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Frankovic received an A.B. from Cornell University in 1968, and a Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University in 1974. Before joining CBS News, she taught political science at the University of Vermont, and continues an association with the academic community, and held visiting positions at Cornell University and the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. She now works on both U.S. coasts: in New York at CBS News headquarters and in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband Hal Glatzer, a computer journalist and mystery writer.


 

Special Event

FOOD AND MARDI GRAS STYLE FUN
Monday, 6:00pm-10:00pm (Meet in Lobby @ 6:00pm)
This will be a true "New Orleans" experience at Mardi Gras World that you won't want to miss. Details will be updated as arrangements are finalized.

 







 

Service Work in New Orleans

DISASTER RELIEF VOLUNTEERING, ANYONE?

Thought about the victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita lately? Maybe you wished you could help, but you lived too far away, or you didn’t have the time, or you couldn’t afford the trip. Well, now just might be the time. New Orleans is still in the recovery process and will be for some time to come. Research on Hurricane Andrew ten years after the storm found deep-seated continuing impacts on many households, as well as changes in the social landscape of the community. What can you do? If you would like to volunteer for a day, either before or after the conference, here are two places you can contact for information:

         1-800-volunteer.org                         

         volunteermatch.org

At both sites you can do a search on New Orleans , LA 70129 and find a number of opportunities. If enough people are interested, IFD&TC participants might be able to volunteer as a group. If you are interested in being part of a group, please send an e-mail to Ann Goraczko at goraczko@fiu.edu