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Full-Text Articles in Education
'To Change Is To Learn And To Learn Is To Change', Bob Porter
'To Change Is To Learn And To Learn Is To Change', Bob Porter
UCF Forum
“To change is to learn and to learn is to change.” That was often the advice given to me by my mentor in life, Lew Treen, a war veteran, semi-pro baseball player, high school principal and coach.
Unfortunately, 'A Little Birdie Told Me...' Seems To Be Trend Of Online 'Journalists', Tom Cavanagh
Unfortunately, 'A Little Birdie Told Me...' Seems To Be Trend Of Online 'Journalists', Tom Cavanagh
UCF Forum
Most of us have heard the expression “A little birdie told me…”
Run Toward Your Next Job, Not Away From Current One, Bob Porter
Run Toward Your Next Job, Not Away From Current One, Bob Porter
UCF Forum
If you are considering a job change or are looking for your first job, how do you know what direction to take?
Finding The Sweet Spot In Your Life Can Be More Than Just A Dream, Bob Porter
Finding The Sweet Spot In Your Life Can Be More Than Just A Dream, Bob Porter
UCF Forum
When I was a small child, I had a recurring dream that I ran and jumped out of my second-story bedroom window and began to fly. I would fly around the neighborhood to see my friends and help people, and I had a lot of fun doing it. I can’t exactly recall how I learned to fly, but it was instinctive, and I just inherently knew it was a gift. I can still remember how my stomach would get jittery in the moments right before I took the jump in order to fly.
We Must All Work To Solve Childhood Obesity, Lisa Barkley
We Must All Work To Solve Childhood Obesity, Lisa Barkley
UCF Forum
Obesity is a global epidemic. It is particularly affecting our children and adolescents. This new phenomenon of having a chronic medical condition affecting such a large proportion of those under 18 years old is unprecedented.
Time For Today's Lesson: Learn How To Ask Questions, Seek Answers, Richard C. Crepeau
Time For Today's Lesson: Learn How To Ask Questions, Seek Answers, Richard C. Crepeau
UCF Forum
Time is a construct. There really is no such thing as absolute time. It is measured in a variety of ways and perceived in a multitude of ways. Is it relative? And if so, relative to what?
Our Diversity Is What Will Drive New Levels Of Excellence, Lisa Barkley
Our Diversity Is What Will Drive New Levels Of Excellence, Lisa Barkley
UCF Forum
Diversity has changed and the face of America has changed. As a nation, we have to come to grips with the reality that our melting pot has never had so many ingredients mixed in – and we are never going back to what it used to be.
Together, Science And Art Can Provide Answers In Search For Truth, Carla Poindexter
Together, Science And Art Can Provide Answers In Search For Truth, Carla Poindexter
UCF Forum
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of UCF this year, we are reminded that the core benefit of an upper-level education is the opportunity to pursue and obtain insight and knowledge over blindness and ignorance.
Young Athletes Must Learn To Balance Health, Challenges, Lisa Barkley
Young Athletes Must Learn To Balance Health, Challenges, Lisa Barkley
UCF Forum
We all want sports heroes and we all want to win – but that desire comes with a price. Just as there will always be winners in sports, there will always be injuries and losers. Often the lines are blurred between what is in the best interest of an athlete’s health and well-being and what it takes to win.
Today's College Degree Should Be As Accessible As A High School Diploma, Richard C. Crepeau
Today's College Degree Should Be As Accessible As A High School Diploma, Richard C. Crepeau
UCF Forum
In his recent State of the Union message, President Obama mentioned the high cost of higher education. This is an issue that he raised a year ago at the same venue, and one that the vice president has been spearheading. For those of us who have been on a college campus for quite some time it is an issue of growing significance.
In Attempt To Quell Violence, Don't Publicly Identify 'Mentally Disturbed', Carla Poindexter
In Attempt To Quell Violence, Don't Publicly Identify 'Mentally Disturbed', Carla Poindexter
UCF Forum
I am certainly not in a position to judge whether a student appears mentally disturbed or unstable in the sense that he or she might be a threat to society or to themselves. However, as a university-level educator who spends most of my working hours with young people in their late teens and early 20s, I have witnessed and experienced situations that were a cause for concern in which I felt compelled to act, intervene or respond in ways that we, as research professors, are often not trained to do. Although most of these situations have been resolved with a …
Chairs Mentoring Faculty Colleagues, Jeff Kerssen-Griep
Chairs Mentoring Faculty Colleagues, Jeff Kerssen-Griep
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Many academics struggle to manage the changes that come with suddenly being responsible for chairing a group of peers. As in skilled classroom instruction, leading an academic unit invokes specific structural, strategic, tactical, and interpersonal abilities. New chairs often quickly have to add ways of thinking and acting that are beyond the precise expertise that got them to that point in the first place. With our focus on understanding process, communication scholars may be better equipped than some others to understand this role shift’s dynamics, but often we struggle as mightily as our chemist or engineering or nursing peers to …
Rethinking The Classroom: One Department’S Attempt To Connect Student Learning And National Events, John A. Mcarthur
Rethinking The Classroom: One Department’S Attempt To Connect Student Learning And National Events, John A. Mcarthur
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Communication programs have a rich anecdotal history of connecting student learning to real-world experience. Yet, the same programs, including ours, often privilege classroom-based instruction and instructor-led experiential learning over other types of experiences. When community organizers announced a national mega-event for our city, faculty in our communication department knew that we wanted to use it as a learning experience. We brainstormed ideas, most of which were classroom- and semester-based concepts typical of traditional topics courses. But, one of our faculty members suggested that we think outside of the concept of classroom. What resulted was a unique experience unlike any we …
Editor's Note, Don W. Stacks
Editor's Note, Don W. Stacks
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 32, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Comparing Communication Doctoral Programs, Alumni, And Faculty: The Use Of Google Scholar, Mike Allen, John Bourhis, Nancy Burrell, Andrew William Cole, Emily Cramer, Keith Dilbeck, Nathanael England, Jennifer Morey Hawkins, Melissa Maier, Rebecca Mullane, Kim Omachinski, Kikuko Omori, Deborah Decloedt-Pincon, Angela Victor, Kara L. Willes, Anna Nicole Zmyslinski
Comparing Communication Doctoral Programs, Alumni, And Faculty: The Use Of Google Scholar, Mike Allen, John Bourhis, Nancy Burrell, Andrew William Cole, Emily Cramer, Keith Dilbeck, Nathanael England, Jennifer Morey Hawkins, Melissa Maier, Rebecca Mullane, Kim Omachinski, Kikuko Omori, Deborah Decloedt-Pincon, Angela Victor, Kara L. Willes, Anna Nicole Zmyslinski
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This paper examines three aspects of doctoral programs in Communication: (a) how doctoral department faculty compare using combined citations to published work using Google Scholar, (b) the contribution in quantity and quality (measured by citations) of alumni teaching in doctoral programs, and (c) identifying the top 25 most cited communication doctoral faculty in Google Scholar. The goal is to provide a series of additional alternatives for faculty and program evaluation beyond simply counting the number of published journal articles.
The Application Of Basic Communication Skills To Higher Education Administration, Kelly Rocca Delgaizo, Ann Bainbridge Frymier, Timothy P. Mottet
The Application Of Basic Communication Skills To Higher Education Administration, Kelly Rocca Delgaizo, Ann Bainbridge Frymier, Timothy P. Mottet
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Communication skills are a core requirement for administrators in higher education. Evidence for this proposition can be found in the job announcements for administrators and in the conferences they attend. The Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences’ (CCAS) annual conference is a place for deans and other administrators from around the country to gather to work on becoming better at “deaning.” For the past few years, a pre-conference workshop titled “Conflict Management for Deans,” has been offered, and serves as a perfect example of the importance of our discipline to higher education administration. In a quick review of the …
Who Are We Educating? Why Undergraduate Students Choose To Major In Communication, Christopher J. Carpenter, Bree Mcewan
Who Are We Educating? Why Undergraduate Students Choose To Major In Communication, Christopher J. Carpenter, Bree Mcewan
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This study examined student traits and major characteristics that might lead students to choose communication as a major by collecting survey responses from 476 undergraduate students. Attitudes about the major and potential jobs, expected norms from parents, and areas of perceived behavioral control based on student anxieties were analyzed as predictors of choosing the communication major. Short term benefits of taking communication classes as well as the long-term benefits predicted students’ intention of graduating with a communication major. The perception that the major required little math was associated with choosing the major for those higher in math anxiety.
Dialogic Ethics: Leadership And The Face Of The Other, Karen Lollar
Dialogic Ethics: Leadership And The Face Of The Other, Karen Lollar
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Foundational to a relational ethic is the belief that healthy human existence requires respect for others, respect that does not work to reduce their otherness to the sameness that is familiar. It is not enough that the face of another person arouses awareness. What pragmatic action does it require? This article explores the application of a Levinasian ethic on day-to-day practice in the academy. Weaving together short vignettes from daily work practice with principles of ethics from Emmanuel Levinas (1969, 1997), the author concludes with a vision of the possibility of creating a dwelling place based on dialogic ethics as …
Preachers, Politicians And People Of Character: A Rationale For The Centrality Of A Public-Speaking Course In The Core Curriculum, Blake J. Neff
Preachers, Politicians And People Of Character: A Rationale For The Centrality Of A Public-Speaking Course In The Core Curriculum, Blake J. Neff
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Administrators in colleges and universities across America continue to debate the relative advantages of education designed to develop vocational skills and education committed to the liberal arts. This essay demonstrates that public speaking as the basic communication course bridges the divide. That course provides a necessary vocational skill for a host of professions, and in addition strongly supports liberal arts by bringing instructional units in self-discipline, critical thinking, listening, and academic preparedness to the core curriculum.