The Tulane Debate Society collaborates through the Crescent City Debate League with students, teachers and principals at over a dozen New Orleans middle schools, one middle school in Hazlehurst MS, and students and faculty at Xavier University. Our central goal is to provide opportunities for the middle school students of New Orleans to engage in civil and civic discourse and to empower them to become the leaders of tomorrow.
The Tulane Debate Society is grounded in an English Department service-learning course that aims to revive the principles of classical rhetoric described by Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, and Quintilian, and put them to work in New Orleans to promote civil discourse and critical reasoning.
