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Crisis Communication In Context: History And Publication Trends, Kenneth A. Lachlan, Patric R. Spence, Matt Seeger, Christine Gilbert, Xialing Lin
Crisis Communication In Context: History And Publication Trends, Kenneth A. Lachlan, Patric R. Spence, Matt Seeger, Christine Gilbert, Xialing Lin
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This study aims to describe the development of crisis communication as a subfield of Communication Studies, through an analysis of data taken from journal publications. By tracing the origins of crisis communication, this study identifies some of the primary forces that have influenced its development. Next, the results of an analysis of crisis communication articles drawn from twelve periodicals over nineteen years within the larger communication discipline are offered. The results suggest that Journal of Applied Communication Research has been the most common outlet for this subdiscipline, human subjects data accounts for less than half of the published research, and …
“Let Me Walk With You”: Communicative Coaching And Communication Administration At The Crossroads, Craig T. Maier
“Let Me Walk With You”: Communicative Coaching And Communication Administration At The Crossroads, Craig T. Maier
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Communication administration today is at a crossroads, contending with an unprecedented set of pressures and challenges. This essay explores how the emerging field of coaching might speak to this time. Drawing from the practices and standards of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the coaching literature, and communication ethics scholarship, this essay frames a uniquely communicative approach to coaching practice. After describing communicative coaching in terms of the goods that it protects and promotes (Arnett, Fritz, & Bell, 2009), it discusses how communicative coaching can sustain the goods of productivity, place, persons, and professionalism (Fritz, 2013) within the context of the …
Demonstration Policies At Private Universities: A Case Study And Analysis, Bastiaan Vanacker
Demonstration Policies At Private Universities: A Case Study And Analysis, Bastiaan Vanacker
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Unlike public universities, private universities are not bound by the First Amendment when regulating students’ on-campus speech. This has provided administrators at private universities with great leeway in putting restrictions on student demonstrations. This article starts out with a case analysis of Loyola University Chicago, where the demonstration policy was loosened after pressure from the university community. This example frames the research questions of this study, analyzing the prevalence and nature of demonstration policies at private universities. Compared to public universities, private universities are less likely to have a demonstration policy, and the language and procedures contained in these policies …
New Jersey Communication Association’S Adjunct/Contingent Faculty Certification Program: What Makes A Communication Classroom?, Christopher Lynch, Anita Foeman, Theresa Nance
New Jersey Communication Association’S Adjunct/Contingent Faculty Certification Program: What Makes A Communication Classroom?, Christopher Lynch, Anita Foeman, Theresa Nance
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
The New Jersey Communication Association’s Adjunct/ Contingent Faculty Certification program provides a place of reflection for potential adjunct or contingent faculty and prepares them for teaching in a communication classroom. New Jersey state law requires an oral communication course for every college student. Disciplinary departments who may not have a direct connection with the field of communication often sponsor and teach these classes. Recruiting potential candidates to teach a communication class raises challenges for administrators and department chairs especially when many sections of the course are needed. The perception of non-communication administrators is sometimes that anyone can teach this core …
Complete Issue, Volume 38, Issue 1
Complete Issue, Volume 38, Issue 1
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the complete issue for Volume 38, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Complete Issue, Volume 38, Issue 2
Complete Issue, Volume 38, Issue 2
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the complete issue for Volume 38, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Editor's Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Editor's Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 37, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Building Bridges On Local Soil: Locality And Community-Engaged Research And Pedagogy, Craig T. Maier
Building Bridges On Local Soil: Locality And Community-Engaged Research And Pedagogy, Craig T. Maier
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Over a decade ago, Oster-Aaland, Sellnow, Nelson, and Pearson (2004), following up an earlier survey published in JACA (Sellnow and Oster, 1999), found that communityengaged research and pedagogy had become an established part of the communication curriculum. As a special issue of Peer Review has suggested (Carey, 2017), interest in service learning has only grown, and the increasing emphasis on civic engagement and community development has clear implications for the communication discipline. Courses and projects that address pressing or emerging social problems not only raise students’ ethical awareness but also allow students to build research and professional skills that build …
Complete Issue, Volume 37, Issue 1
Complete Issue, Volume 37, Issue 1
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the complete issue for Volume 37, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Fostering Organizational Integrity Through Departmental Program Reviews, James T. Petre, David S. Heineman, Angela G. La Valley
Fostering Organizational Integrity Through Departmental Program Reviews, James T. Petre, David S. Heineman, Angela G. La Valley
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Conducting a departmental program review can be a stressful and arduous process. At the same time, the final report can provide valuable insights. The challenges and benefits of program reviews have been well noted by scholars. We seek to add to this conversation by arguing that program reviews can prove beneficial by fostering and maintaining organizational integrity. In our essay, we review relevant literature on program reviews, provide an explanation of organizational integrity, present a narrative of our program review process, and explain how this process fostered organizational integrity.
“Field” Research: Letting Corporate Communication Professionals’ Stories Inform Curriculum Development, Mary Stairs Vaughn, Jimmy Davis, Jeremy Fyke, Nathan Webb
“Field” Research: Letting Corporate Communication Professionals’ Stories Inform Curriculum Development, Mary Stairs Vaughn, Jimmy Davis, Jeremy Fyke, Nathan Webb
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
We interviewed 25 corporate communication professionals to learn the competencies they see as necessary for entering and succeeding in their field. We then used what we learned to inform course-level and program-level changes to our corporate communication major. Our results detail: (1) the range of tactical, strategic, and dispositional competencies the interviewees identified as necessary for a career in corporate communication, (2) three categories of strategies for transitioning into the field, and (3) the subsequent curricular and course-level changes that resulted from our interviews. Our study concludes that students need broad training for a wide-ranging and rapidly-changing field, and they …
Complete Issue, Volume 37, Issue 2
Complete Issue, Volume 37, Issue 2
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the complete issue for Volume 37, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Appreciative Inquiry In An Urban Context: Service Learning Amidst The Opioid Crisis, Craig T. Maier
Appreciative Inquiry In An Urban Context: Service Learning Amidst The Opioid Crisis, Craig T. Maier
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Britt’s (2012) service-learning framework situates community engaged learning activities in three broad categories: the practice of doing, which emphasizes skill building in relation to real-world problems; the practice of becoming, which sensitizes students to a broader range of social and civic responsibilities; and the practice of engaging in social change, which translates skill development and awareness into concrete action. This essay describes a successful service learning project focusing on opioid addiction in a mid-Atlantic city that combines all three. After describing the project’s background and implementation, it suggests practices and lessons that could inform similar efforts.
Lobbying As A Means For Expanding The Communication Instructional Base: A Second Look, Craig Newburger
Lobbying As A Means For Expanding The Communication Instructional Base: A Second Look, Craig Newburger
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Members of our discipline should agree that communication scholars and instructors be the principal designers of the learning goals, subsequent activities and corresponding assessment of communication instruction on college campuses. There is ongoing broad interdisciplinary support that communication instruction be an essential learning outcome of general undergraduate education.
Supporting Social Change: Administration Of Service-Learning In Communication Departments, Jennifer Snyder-Duch
Supporting Social Change: Administration Of Service-Learning In Communication Departments, Jennifer Snyder-Duch
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Service-learning has garnered wide acceptance as an effective experiential pedagogy in that it combines community service with academic instruction. This pedagogy incorporates critical, reflective thinking with personal and civic responsibility and involves students in activities that address community-identified needs. Successful service learning courses develop students’ academic skills and commitment to their community (Jacoby, 2015). Some service-learning experiences focus on advocacy or social change work. These are valuable teaching and learning experiences, but as faculty develop these courses, they must be aware of the need for departmental support.
Accepting The Challenge: A Case Study In Pedagogical Inquiry, Sarah C. Worley
Accepting The Challenge: A Case Study In Pedagogical Inquiry, Sarah C. Worley
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Higher education has been criticized for not fulfilling its democratic purpose—that is, to prepare students for citizenship, not just careers. Longo and Gibson (2016) argue that “as access to higher education has increased, many colleges and universities ironically have become more detached from their public missions,” leading to the increasing separation between learning and social purpose (p. 61). Many schools and departments have already begun the hard work of reevaluation and critical reflection in response to such criticism and are helping to reinvent American higher education (Hartley & Hollander, 2005). Three such examples are communication programs featured as case studies …
University High Impact Practices: Bridges That Support The Path To Student’S Professional Identity, Naomi Bell O’Neil
University High Impact Practices: Bridges That Support The Path To Student’S Professional Identity, Naomi Bell O’Neil
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Success for universities is often measured by student graduation rates and career placement. Most graduates are at a developmental stage of achieving their psychosocial identity where they have a sense of self and their own will, but Erikson (1968) purported that identity continues to evolve through post-adolescent years—“beyond identity” (p. 135). This essay proposes that graduates’ development of professional identities is instrumental for successful careers in the marketplace. University high-impact practices contributes to the evolution of professional identity and cultivates students’ connection with marketplace professionals. Communication and behavior play concurrent roles in the development of many facets of identity, which …
Building Bridges Between Communication Studies And Community: A Praxis-Approach, Jill K. Burk
Building Bridges Between Communication Studies And Community: A Praxis-Approach, Jill K. Burk
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
In an effort to demonstrate the field’s usefulness and essentiality to our world, communication studies’ praxis orientation needs to be clearly pursued and publicized. Implementing service-learning into the communication studies classroom could achieve this goal. Through extending the scholarship of Britt (2012) and Pollack (1999), this article proposes that communication educators ground and articulate their service-learning pedagogy from three different paradigmatic lenses; the experiential paradigm, the social change paradigm, and the citizenship paradigm. Moreover, communication administrators ought to understand the different paradigmatic foundations, which drive service-learning enactment, in an effort to not privilege one perspective over another. The service-learning literature …
Administering Community-Engaged Pedagogies: Toward An Anticipatory Approach To Problems, Todd Kelshaw
Administering Community-Engaged Pedagogies: Toward An Anticipatory Approach To Problems, Todd Kelshaw
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Community-engaged pedagogies are optimism-borne. But problems inevitably arise, and administrators/practitioners might react in ways that hamper projects’ potentials. This essay addresses the nature of problems to be expected during community-engaged work; the need for an “anticipatory” administrative approach; and how a communication-centric orientation affords particular capacities. Notably, communication-disciplinary community engagement administrators are particularly poised to manage problems in anticipatory ways.
Editor’S Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Editor’S Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 37, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Legal, Ethical, And Appropriate Interaction, Mark Hickson Iii
Legal, Ethical, And Appropriate Interaction, Mark Hickson Iii
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
No abstract provided.
Editor's Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Editor's Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 36, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Complete Issue, Volume 36, Issue 2
Complete Issue, Volume 36, Issue 2
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
No abstract provided.
The Basic Course Using Gias: One Department’S Journey Through The Ups And Downs Of Establishing A Lecture/Lab Delivery Model For The Basic Communication Course, Kathy Brady, Tammy French, Sue Wildermuth
The Basic Course Using Gias: One Department’S Journey Through The Ups And Downs Of Establishing A Lecture/Lab Delivery Model For The Basic Communication Course, Kathy Brady, Tammy French, Sue Wildermuth
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
The basic communication course has many demands placed upon it—and in turn, places many demands on communication departments and their faculty and staff.
Redesigning The Basic Communication Course: A Case Study, Lindsey B. Anderson, Thomas Mccloskey, Devin Scott, Rebecca Alt, Elizabeth E. Gardner
Redesigning The Basic Communication Course: A Case Study, Lindsey B. Anderson, Thomas Mccloskey, Devin Scott, Rebecca Alt, Elizabeth E. Gardner
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
In the competitive environment of higher education, the basic communication course is under pressure to defend its place in the curriculum. One way to do this is to engage in a course redesign program. In this case study, we detail our experience taking part in such a program to (re)evaluate our course. Over the course of a year, we collected active participation data and conducted a series of three qualitative surveys that focused on student perceptions of our course. In doing so, we explored the ways in which the basic communication course can take advantage of course redesign efforts. Specifically, …
Editor's Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Editor's Note, Janie M. H. Fritz
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 36, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Student Philanthropy: Learning And Community Transformation In A College Philanthropy Course, Daniel Blaeuer
Student Philanthropy: Learning And Community Transformation In A College Philanthropy Course, Daniel Blaeuer
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Over the past two years, I have been honored to develop a course on student philanthropy in a communication studies department. The course provides students the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be philanthropists for a semester by awarding a small grant to a community nonprofit. My experiences in philanthropy illustrate how philanthropy and student philanthropy in particular can be an exciting part of a communication studies curriculum and how philanthropy develops organically out of community dialogue efforts. I hope, in sharing the essay, other communities and communication studies departments can develop student philanthropy programs at their institutions to bring nonprofits, philanthropists and …
Complete Issue, Volume 36, Issue 1
Complete Issue, Volume 36, Issue 1
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the complete issue for Volume 36, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Evaluation Communication Of Master's Program On The Basis Of Google Citations, Mike Allen, John Bourhis, Nancy Burrell, Bailey Benedict, Tosin Comfort Adebayo, Maura Cherney, Derrick Langston, Brittney Peck, Samantha Quinn, Riley Richards
Evaluation Communication Of Master's Program On The Basis Of Google Citations, Mike Allen, John Bourhis, Nancy Burrell, Bailey Benedict, Tosin Comfort Adebayo, Maura Cherney, Derrick Langston, Brittney Peck, Samantha Quinn, Riley Richards
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This paper provides an assessment of Master’s degree programs and faculty research in Communication departments using citations available in Google Scholar. Identification of the Master’s degree programs relied on the National Communication Association website. Individual faculty were identified from the web page of the department for the institution. The combined number of citations to faculty publications identifies the top five departments (University of Alabama-Birmingham, California State University-Fullerton, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Cleveland State University, and California State University- Long Beach) and the top five most cited faculty members (Stella Ting-Toomey, Virginia Richmond, George Cheney, Kimberly Neuendorf, and Brian Spitzberg). The …
Graduate Student Self-Branding As Integrated Marketing Communication: The Call For Reflexivity, Mary J. Eberhardinger
Graduate Student Self-Branding As Integrated Marketing Communication: The Call For Reflexivity, Mary J. Eberhardinger
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Self-branding among graduate students is explored conceptually in this essay as an extension of the notion of personal branding. This concept is tangential to impression management, sense-making, and face negotiation. A central contention pursued in this essay is the call for administrators to reconsider how to respond to the perceived need of student self-branding. Moreover, graduate student self-branding is compared to a respective form of IMC that utilizes the Kellogg School’s notion of contact points. The present essay explores theoretical reasons for why the increased individualized practice of graduate student self-branding occurs. Importantly, the essay invites communication administration into the …