2025 NPTE Topic Process

Hey y’all, topic papers have been submitted and that means it is time to vote for this year’s NPTE topics.
I’m including a link to a Drive folder that contains this year’s NPTE topic papers. It also includes this year’s voting spreadsheet for you to download and complete. You should email that completed spreadsheet to NPTEBoard@gmail.com on or before February 4th. Complete instructions are in the spreadsheet itself. Make sure that your institution only votes once! If you have questions, please post them here or reach out to me personally.
I’d encourage you to use this post as a forum to discuss topic areas you like, potential issues you have with topic areas, and what you’d change about topics.
This year’s Topic Committee will be myself, Alex Li, June Dense, Kyle Pryor-Landman, and Adeja Powell.
Finally, I have a handful of reminders about the topic selection process:
1. We will not use more than 2 topics from any one institution. If more than 2 topics are chosen for the top 5 from one school, we will drop the lowest ranked topic and use the next highest ranked topic from another institution.
2. The topic committee will change wording as needed, but the intent is always to keep the original debate described in the topic paper. If we need to significantly change wording on a topic you’ve proposed, we’ll always reach out to you to make sure it fits your intention as best as possible. This is of particular importance this year based on one topic submission, which does have a note from the NPTE Board included in its text.
3. For topic papers with multiple resolutions, the topic committee will narrow down to one and finalize a wording based on community feedback and its own discussion.
4. The topic committee will have a public discussion over these revisions and choices, and I’d encourage you to follow along as that happens and note your own issues or concerns in public channels so the topic committee can finalize topics that we’re all excited to debate.
5. There will be another post shortly after voting ends announcing the chosen topic papers, the members of this year’s topic committee, and releasing the topic committee’s public discussion document.

Drive Folder