MSC Student Conference on National Affairs
| MSC Student Conference on National Affairs | |
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| Genre | Foreign Affairs Conferences |
| Venue | Campus of Texas A&M University |
| Location(s) | College Station, Texas |
| Country | United States |
| Attendance | 150 Delegates from 30+ Universities |
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| scona.tamu.edu | |
The MSC Student Conference on National Affairs (MSC SCONA) provides programs for students across Texas, the nation, and the world to exchange ideas and discuss the role of the United States in the global community.
MSC SCONA was founded in 1955 by John Jenkins '56 and Bud Whitney '56, senior students in the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets, after they had attended the 6th Student Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA) at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Jenkins and Whitney presented the idea to bring in students from the South and Southwest to a conference held at Texas A&M, as it would allow those students to engage in the same type of experience as West Point.
Each year, MSC SCONA adopts a relevant topic to guide discussions, anchor policy proposals, and provide inspiration for the conference speakers and facilitators. The ~150 delegates represent universities across the United States and commonly include the Federal Service Academies, the seven United States Senior Military Colleges, and top schools from across the South. Although MSC SCONA once included high school students as well as delegates from Mexico and Canada, both practices are no longer continued.
MSC SCONA has an enduring partnership with the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA) at the United States Military Academy at West Point as well as the 55th Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. At SCONA 8, one of the roundtable facilitators was U.S. Army Colonel Rocco M. Paone, the founding director of NAFAC- begun just a year before.
The conference is organized and run by a committee of Texas A&M University students. These students, many of them from the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets and the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service, serve as delegates, roundtable hosts, and conference staff members. MSC SCONA became racially integrated fully in 1961, several years before the University as a whole.
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