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Aca News

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This news item reports ACA organizational updates and related professional information, including encouragement of Unit II memberships, affiliate status for the Southwest Theatre Conference, a New York Public Library censorship exhibition, publication of AAUP censured administrations, and applications for the ACA Consultant Service. It emphasizes association membership, professional affiliation, academic freedom, and consultant support for program review in communication administration.

1984 Aca Convention Preview And Program Schedule

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This program presents the ACA convention preview and schedule for the 1984 meeting in Chicago, including association officers, Executive Committee membership, editorial board membership, business meetings, seminar sessions, and detailed program listings on communication administration, faculty evaluation, student retention, part time faculty, small colleges, academic leadership, and arts funding.

Minutes Of The Aca Executive Committee March 11, 1984 Philadelphia

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

These minutes document an ACA Executive Committee meeting held on March 11, 1984, in Philadelphia. The minutes address convention planning, budget approval, affiliate relationships, data collection, membership renewal, library subscriptions, committee review, publications, nominations, and organizational policy.

Exorcising Some Devils, August W. Staub

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article reflects on theatre administration as a form of leadership grounded in judgment, responsibility, personality, and practical experience. It responds to discussions of theatre administration by distinguishing management and organization from leadership, suggesting that administrative effectiveness depends less on formal training than on the capacity to make timely decisions and accept accountability. The article addresses common concerns in departmental leadership, including rapid judgment, communication, delegation, and professional exhaustion, and reframes these concerns as conditions that administrators must manage directly rather than avoid. It emphasizes the role of a single accountable leader in drama department administration, especially where production, pedagogy, …

Theatre Faculty In The United States: Background And Task Analysis, Samuel L. Becker, Hyeon Cheol Choi, J. Ann Selzer

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article presents a national profile of theatre faculty in United States colleges and universities as part of a broader study of theatre education. It examines faculty background, rank, tenure, teaching assignments, production responsibilities, professional activity, departmental influence, and job satisfaction across institutional settings. The article considers how graduate preparation aligns with teaching and production duties, noting areas where faculty responsibilities differ from prior specialization. It also addresses affirmative action by discussing patterns in gender, tenure, and academic rank. The article situates theatre faculty work within higher education administration by emphasizing workload, faculty morale, professional development, curriculum vitality, and departmental …

Administrative Burnout: A Woman’S Perspective, Lorayne W. Lester

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines administrative burnout among women in higher education, with particular attention to theatre administration and male dominated university structures. It describes burnout as a condition shaped by workload, conflicting demands, isolation, limited support, and repeated challenges to professional authority. The article argues that women administrators often experience different pressures than men because of scarce peer networks, institutional paternalism, gendered expectations, and unequal access to informal systems of advice, sponsorship, and recognition. It situates these pressures within communication administration and academic leadership by connecting personal experience to broader concerns about faculty governance, administrative support, professional identity, and organizational culture. …

An Investigation Of Articles Produced In The Theatre Discipline By Institution: A Journal By Journal, Year By Year Analysis, Kittie W. Watson, Larry L. Barker, Robert N. Hall

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Institutional article production in theatre is analyzed through a year by year and journal by journal review of selected theatre journals. The article situates publication frequency as one possible measure of institutional research activity while noting that it should be considered alongside other indicators of quality. It describes a method for assigning publication credit to institutions, including procedures for handling shared authorship and criteria for excluding reviews, bibliographies, reports, plays, and commentaries. The article presents ranked institutional publication totals and journal specific patterns across the period studied. By connecting research productivity, institutional comparison, and disciplinary publication patterns, the article contributes …

Job Listings In Spectra: 1982–1983 Update, Mary Jane Shadowen, James M. Gelwicks

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Job listings in Spectra are examined as an indicator of academic employment patterns in communication during the 1982 to 1983 listing year. The article updates prior analyses by reviewing total listings, appointment status, faculty rank, salaries, degree and experience requirements, geographic distribution, and specialization areas. It notes that listings remained below earlier Placement Service Bulletin levels and raises questions about changes in the academic job market and the use of Spectra for advertising faculty vacancies. The article identifies continuing demand for assistant professor positions, doctoral qualifications, and speech fundamentals, while also noting changes in broadcasting, mass communication, public relations, and …

Learning To Say No, Kristine M. Davis

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Faculty work in small liberal arts colleges is examined through the problem of excessive cocurricular demands on speech communication teachers. The article explains how institutional missions centered on whole student development can expand faculty responsibilities beyond classroom teaching, especially in forensics, student media, student government, campus events, public speaking support, and student advising. It identifies departmental and personal strategies for managing these demands, including shared responsibility for activities, aligning commitments with departmental philosophy, setting limits on requests, delegating student leadership, and referring students to appropriate campus services. The article connects faculty workload, professional identity, student development, and burnout prevention within …

The Nontraditional College Student: Continuing Education Programs, Mari Tonn, Laura Meeks

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Continuing education is examined as a response to declining traditional college enrollments and the growing presence of adult learners in higher education. The article discusses demographic change, adult participation in part time study, and the need for flexible credit and noncredit programs that maintain academic standards while addressing different student backgrounds, goals, and schedules. It identifies communication courses as especially suited to continuing education because adult learners and employers often seek instruction in interpersonal skills, persuasion, public address, listening, interviewing, small group communication, and workplace communication. The article connects continuing education to communication administration by emphasizing enrollment planning, community service, …

Panel: A Resource For Internship Development, Jon Hall

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Experiential learning resources are described through an overview of PANEL, a peer assistance network developed to support internship and experiential education programs. The article explains the origins of the National Society for Internships and Experiential Education, its services, and the creation of PANEL as a clearinghouse and referral system for practitioners. It outlines areas of assistance, including learning objectives, contracts, field experience design, program evaluation, faculty roles, legal issues, funding, community relationships, and learner development. The article emphasizes that faculty, supervisors, and administrators responsible for internships often need guidance in developing, managing, and evaluating experiential learning opportunities. It contributes to …

The Technical Speech Communication Course: A View From The Field, Andrew D. Wolvin, Diana Corley

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Technical speech communication is analyzed as a basic course designed for students preparing for professional and technical careers. The article argues that communication training is increasingly important in fields such as business, health, education, agriculture, and technology, where workers rely on listening, interpersonal interaction, small group communication, informative briefings, and presentations. It describes a career focused course model that connects communication theory and practice to students’ major fields through interviews, field specific research, panels, and briefings. Survey responses from former students are used to evaluate communication activities and skills most frequently needed in work settings. The article contributes to communication …

Closeouts In Communication Courses: The Students’ Perspective, Judy C. Pearson

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Student perspectives on course access problems are examined in relation to communication courses facing high demand and limited instructional resources. The article reports student responses to possible remedies for overenrollment, including enrollment limits, large lectures, small performance sections, graduate teaching assistants, undergraduate assistants, reduced performances, mediated instruction, and priority registration for majors. The findings suggest that students were willing to accept some structural changes, especially large lectures paired with small performance sections, greater use of graduate assistants, media support, and priority for majors. However, students resisted eliminating performance work, relying on undergraduate assistants, or reducing personal attention from faculty. The …

The Use Of Performance Data To Monitor And Support The Reorganization Of An Educational System, Ellen Spall Thompson

Masters Theses

The goal of this study was to determine the performance effects on staff and students following the reorganization of a special education facility. The organizational plan was based on the development of teaching teams where students were grouped together according to exit curricular goals. Four interventions were completed in order to assess the overall outcome of the reorganization project. At the student level, the rate of learning was monitored in order to determine whether the implementation of teams affected educational objective acquisition . At the team level, meeting agendas were surveyed to find out what effect they had on student …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting July 20, 1984, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Korn/Ferry Report
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Resolution re Prepayment of HUD Bonds at a Discount
• Recommendation re Transfer of Land
• Recommendation re Liquor License
• Recommendation re Authorization to Confer Degrees
• Board Committee Reports
• Western Michigan Foundation Report
• Cistercian Campaign Videotape Presentation
• Public Comments
• Executive Session

Board Of Trustees Minutes 1984-1985, Indiana State University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees

No abstract provided.

19840719: Academic Affairs, 1968-1984, Academic Affairs

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of Academic Affairs at Marshall University from 1968-1984. Items were received in 1984 and include notable materials from or about faculty travel, travel requisitions, and staff travel. This is not an exhaustive list. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. This issue includes articles:

• After His First Day . . . Vice President Robert Haynes Comments on Campus
• Professor Climbs Mountains for His Students – William Kummer aka Biff
• Dr. Joseph R. Millichap Will Head English Department
• National Endowment for the Humanities Awards WKU $15,000 for Green River Exhibit
• When Lightning Strikes . . . – Glen Conner
• TV to Document Poet Jim Wayne Miller
• For Parents Planning Children’s College Costs
• Workshops Help Language Arts Teachers – English
• WKU to Study Butler County – Albert Petersen …

Ua11/1/1 On Campus Interviews, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Audiotape interviews of Robert Haynes and Joseph Millichap by Sheila Conway. There are partial transcripts of the interviews which were used as press releases.

1984 July 09 - Staff Senate Agenda And Minutes, Staff Senate, East Tennessee State University

Staff Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

1984 July 2 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Greenbook, Faculty Handbook, 1984-1985 (Supplement To 83-84), Marshall University Academic Affairs

The Greenbook

This book has been published for the faculty of Marshall University for the specified period of time. This book was created by what is now known as Academic Affairs and is supplemental to the 1983-1984 Greenbook for the period of 1984-1985.

A Study Of Olga Smyth, Director, High Valley School: 1934 Graduate Of Bank Street, Deborah Stone

Graduate Student Independent Studies

A study is made of the educator Olga Smyth, 1934 graduate of Bank Street. Examins her particular style of working with children, and what it is based on in her history, education, and personality. The continuity of her work and the consistency of her approach is shown, from her days at Bank Street through the making of "Incitement to Reading" (film by L. J. Stone showing her teaching first graders at the Poughkeepsie Day School in the 1950's) to her work at her own school with children whose emotional and learning problems make it impossible for them to succeed in …

1984-1985 Lsu Medical Center Catalog/Bulletin, Office Of The Registrar

Catalogs and Bulletins

No abstract provided.

News & Views - Vol. 02, No. 15 - June 29, 1984, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.

Special Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents special meeting regarding committee assignments, personnel changes and salaries, resolutions in honor of Joe Bill Campbell and Ronald Sheffer and FM radio stations.

News & Views - Vol. 02, No. 14 - June 18, 1984, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting June 15, 1984, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Western Michigan University Board of Trustee Meeting Dates for 1984/85
• Recommendation re School of Library and Information Science
• Resolution re Building Maintenance and Repair Projects
• Recommendation re Revised 1983/84 General Fund Operating Budget
• Resolution re Continuation of 1983/84 Budget into 1984/85
• Recommendation re Student Health Fee
• Board Committee Reports
• SAME (Science and Mathematics Education Center) Report
• Public Comments
• Executive Session
• Adjournment

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding retreat, Henderson radio station, academic advising and academic program review.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. This issue includes articles:

• John Palmore & Danny Butler to Take Oath June 22 – Regents
• Co-Operative Education Gets Major Grant
• 24 to Participate in Junior Scholars Program
• Rudolph Prins Visits Area Just Opened to Mankind on Chilean Streams Study
• Three Get University’s Top Academic Scholarship – George Bush, Kristie Foulke, Beverly Kirk
• Talisman Gets Touted Again
• WKU to Offer Nursing Classes in Owensboro – WKU Owensboro
• Workshops Will Host Academically Talented Youths
• Who’s Big Red – O’Brian McKinley
• Campus Will Host French Connection – International …