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The Merged College Of Mass Communication, Robert O. Blanchard
The Merged College Of Mass Communication, Robert O. Blanchard
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
This article considers the organization of academic communication programs, focusing on the advantages and challenges of merged and fragmented institutional structures. Drawing on experiences at Pennsylvania State University, American University, and Trinity University, the article contrasts dispersed communication-related programs with more integrated arrangements. It describes how fragmented structures can separate faculty, courses, facilities, equipment, and students across multiple departments or colleges, creating difficulties for coordination and program development. The article also outlines examples of merger, including the incorporation of speech, journalism, public relations, broadcasting, and related courses into broader communication programs. It identifies potential benefits of merged units, including improved …
Aca Consultant Service: The Departmental Point Of View, N. Edd Miller
Aca Consultant Service: The Departmental Point Of View, N. Edd Miller
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Focused on the departmental use of external consultants, this article outlines reasons a department may seek or be assigned a review, including leadership changes, curriculum revision, reorganization, periodic evaluation, or internal crisis. It describes expectations for a consultant visit, such as encouraging departmental self-study, providing an objective assessment, and producing recommendations useful for communication with administrators and colleagues. The article also details practical preparation for a consultant review, including clarifying the purpose of the visit, gathering materials, arranging schedules, preparing administrators and faculty, and determining how the final report will be used. Particular attention is given to the ACA Consultant …
Program Evaluation And Elimination: A Case Study, Edward L. Mcglone
Program Evaluation And Elimination: A Case Study, Edward L. Mcglone
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Focused on academic program review in Mississippi public universities, this case study describes how a statewide evaluation process led to the proposed elimination of an undergraduate French program despite favorable consultant assessment. The piece recounts the review structure, the role of external consultants, the use of mission statements by governing boards, and the conflict between consultant reports and administrative summaries. It also documents responses from faculty, professional organizations, alumni, and national higher education groups, emphasizing concerns about transparency, liberal arts education, and the ethical use of external evaluation. The article concludes with guidance for departments undergoing review, including the importance …
A Strategy For Securing Tenure And Promotion For The Theatre Artist/Teacher, James A. Patterson
A Strategy For Securing Tenure And Promotion For The Theatre Artist/Teacher, James A. Patterson
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
The tenure and promotion status of theatre artist-teachers is examined through a survey of South Carolina college and university theatre units. The article identifies several challenges in applying traditional academic evaluation criteria to theatre faculty, including limited recognition of creative work as scholarship, inconsistent acceptance of the MFA as a terminal degree, and the absence of discipline-specific tenure and promotion documents. It recommends that theatre administrators develop formal policies that recognize artistic activity as equivalent to scholarly research and publication, establish the MFA as an appropriate terminal degree for theatre artists, and require systematic evaluation of production work. The article …
Promotion And Tenure Procedures For Faculty Holding The Mfa, Stephen M. Archer, Patrick Atkison
Promotion And Tenure Procedures For Faculty Holding The Mfa, Stephen M. Archer, Patrick Atkison
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Policies for evaluating MFA degree holders in the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art at the University of Missouri, Columbia are outlined in relation to promotion and tenure. The article distinguishes between the creative activity expected of MFA faculty and the research or scholarly work often associated with PhD faculty, while noting that teaching and service expectations are largely similar. It identifies appropriate areas of theatre production for creative evaluation, including playwriting, scenic design, lighting design, costume design, directing, choreography, makeup design, property design, acting, and technical direction. The article also lists possible sources of evaluation, including professional adjudication, regional …
As They Are: How Relevant Are Professional Publications For Theatre In Academe?, David L. Jorns
As They Are: How Relevant Are Professional Publications For Theatre In Academe?, David L. Jorns
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Using the closure of Exchange: A Journal of Opinion for the Performing Arts as a starting point, this article examines the relationship between academic theatre professionals and professional publications. It describes the journal’s original purpose as an outlet for performance faculty in higher education and traces how its audience, submissions, and circulation diverged from those expectations. The article considers low readership and publication rates among theatre faculty, the role of automatic association subscriptions in sustaining some journals, and survey findings suggesting that creative production is often accepted in place of refereed publication for promotion and tenure. It argues that many …
Unionization And The Speech Communication Department, Ralph Towne
Unionization And The Speech Communication Department, Ralph Towne
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Unionization is examined in relation to speech communication departments and the disciplinary skills they can bring to faculty collective bargaining. Drawing on the context of a unionized university, the article argues that speech communication faculty are well positioned to contribute to negotiation, grievance and arbitration procedures, persuasion of union membership, lobbying, and problem solving because of their training in argumentation, debate, interpersonal communication, and persuasion. It also discusses the potential departmental benefits of union leadership, including increased recognition of the field’s practical value by colleagues in other disciplines. The article identifies possible risks, including administrative resistance toward departments whose members …
Training And Development: A Career Alternative, John R. Johnson
Training And Development: A Career Alternative, John R. Johnson
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Training and development is presented as a career path for speech communication students in response to reduced teaching opportunities and growing interest in nonteaching employment. The article describes training and development as a business, industry, and government function that depends on teaching, communication, facilitation, program design, needs analysis, media use, research, and human resource skills. It reviews professional role descriptions and survey findings indicating that human relations and communication skills are central to effective training practice. The article also summarizes employer studies identifying oral communication, writing, and interpersonal communication as common weaknesses among college graduates and as barriers to job …
Sign Systems In Communication, Carol J. Garretson
Sign Systems In Communication, Carol J. Garretson
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Sign systems and sign languages are introduced through distinctions among American Sign Language, manual English systems, fingerspelling, simultaneous communication, Total Communication, Pidgin Sign English, international sign, and Cued Speech. The article clarifies terminology related to deafness, hearing impairment, and manual communication, while addressing common misconceptions that sign language is universal, nonverbal, or merely gestural. It traces the development of home signs, childrenese, school signs, and regional signing patterns, and explains that American Sign Language is an independent language with its own grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and capacity for abstraction. The article also describes efforts to represent English manually through systems such …
The Outsiders: Women In The Academy, Michele T. Myers
The Outsiders: Women In The Academy, Michele T. Myers
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Women’s status in higher education is examined through legal, institutional, and statistical changes following major equity legislation of the early 1970s. The article acknowledges gains in women’s access to higher education, women’s studies programs, professional networks, and administrative development, while emphasizing persistent disparities in employment, rank, tenure, salary, and promotion. Drawing on reports from the Women’s Equity Action League, the American Association of University Professors, and a National Research Council study of matched male and female Ph.D.s, the article presents evidence that women remain concentrated in lower academic ranks, earn less than men, and advance more slowly toward tenure and …
Achieving Upward Mobility In Academia: Priorities And Strategies, Judith S. Trent, Patricia Hayes Andrews
Achieving Upward Mobility In Academia: Priorities And Strategies, Judith S. Trent, Patricia Hayes Andrews
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Strategies for faculty advancement in higher education are presented in response to changing economic, demographic, and institutional conditions affecting promotion, tenure, and employment. The article focuses especially on new faculty members and recent Ph.D.s, recommending that they assess the institution’s mission, expectations, values, and reward systems before developing a professional development plan. It outlines strategies for building a record in three major areas commonly used in faculty evaluation: scholarly productivity, teaching effectiveness, and university citizenship or service. Attention is given to publication choices, convention participation, grant activity, research focus, documentation of teaching, student and peer evaluations, curriculum development, and collegial …
Matrix Design: An Alternative Model For Organizing The School Or Department, Philip J. Salem, Robert D. Gratz
Matrix Design: An Alternative Model For Organizing The School Or Department, Philip J. Salem, Robert D. Gratz
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
Matrix design is presented as an alternative organizational model for schools and departments of communication facing competition, complex curricular demands, limited resources, and pressures for accountability. The article contrasts traditional bureaucratic structures with matrix structures, in which faculty or staff may report simultaneously to program managers and functional managers. It explains how this model can clarify authority, improve coordination, and support both continuity and innovation across areas such as undergraduate education, graduate education, research, public service, advisement, theatre production, and communication program administration. Examples include a comprehensive speech communication department and a university theatre production program, both of which require …
The Beginning, Intermediate, And Advanced Study Of Interpersonal Communication, Paul G. Friedman
The Beginning, Intermediate, And Advanced Study Of Interpersonal Communication, Paul G. Friedman
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
A framework for sequencing interpersonal communication coursework is proposed through a producer, marketer, and consumer metaphor. Developed after a review of interpersonal communication offerings at the University of Kansas, the article distinguishes among introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels of study. Beginning students are described as consumers who learn established knowledge and apply interpersonal communication concepts and skills to personal and professional contexts. Intermediate students are positioned as marketers who synthesize existing research, study primary sources, develop greater skill proficiency, and apply knowledge in more complex settings such as simulations, internships, teaching, or case analysis. Advanced students are presented as producers …
The Concept Of Community For People Working In A Theatre Program Of Limited Size, Margaret M. Swanson
The Concept Of Community For People Working In A Theatre Program Of Limited Size, Margaret M. Swanson
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
A small university theatre program is examined through its relationship to the surrounding community, campus, and prospective students. The article reflects on how theatre programs in small towns may function as bridges between university and local audiences while also becoming accountable to community expectations, traditions, and tastes. Examples include a long-running summer stock company, an annual student production of A Christmas Carol, touring theatre for high school audiences, and plans for a high school arts camp. These programs are described as forms of outreach, recruitment, public service, and experiential learning, but also as sources of financial strain, artistic constraint, and …
V. 51, No. 8, September 28, 1984
The Pacifican, September 27, 1984, University Of The Pacific
The Pacifican, September 27, 1984, University Of The Pacific
All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly
No abstract provided.
The Pacifican, September 13, 1984, University Of The Pacific
The Pacifican, September 13, 1984, University Of The Pacific
All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly
No abstract provided.
Top Third/Bottom Third: A Humane Approach To Merit Pay For Academic Departments, John E. Crawford, Robert O. Hirsch, Carol A. Valentine
Top Third/Bottom Third: A Humane Approach To Merit Pay For Academic Departments, John E. Crawford, Robert O. Hirsch, Carol A. Valentine
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin
This article examines a merit pay model for academic departments designed to reduce anxiety, competition, and perceived unfairness in faculty salary adjustment processes. It describes a three tier system that combines a general salary increase with differentiated merit awards for faculty ranked in upper, middle, and lower performance groups. The article addresses how departments may define valued faculty activity through explicit criteria for teaching, research, publication, and service, while also preserving attention to equity, rank, and length of service. It presents the model as a way to reward exceptional contributions without denying recognition to competent faculty members. The article situates …
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
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.
Theatre Faculty In The United States: Background And Task Analysis, Samuel L. Becker, Hyeon Cheol Choi, J. Ann Selzer
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 …
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
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 …
Pacific Review May/June 1984, Pacific Alumni Association
Pacific Review May/June 1984, Pacific Alumni Association
Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review
No abstract provided.
The University Of Texas At Arlington Undergraduate Catalog 1984-1985, The University Of Texas At Arlington
The University Of Texas At Arlington Undergraduate Catalog 1984-1985, The University Of Texas At Arlington
UTA Undergraduate Catalogs
No abstract provided.
Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 19, 1984.
Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 19, 1984.
Bryant University Commencements
Bryant University Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 19, 1984.
Monday Update - April 30, 1984, Nova University
The Pacifican, April 27, 1984, University Of The Pacific
The Pacifican, April 27, 1984, University Of The Pacific
All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly
No abstract provided.
Monday Update - April 16, 1984, Nova University