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University Officials As Administrators & Mediators: The Dual Role Conflict & Confidentiality Problems, Jeffrey C. Sun
University Officials As Administrators & Mediators: The Dual Role Conflict & Confidentiality Problems, Jeffrey C. Sun
Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal
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Proactively And In The Heat Of The Moment: Administrative Advice For Communication Instructors To Help Students Cope With Crisis, Jennifer H. Waldeck
Proactively And In The Heat Of The Moment: Administrative Advice For Communication Instructors To Help Students Cope With Crisis, Jennifer H. Waldeck
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article provides advice on helping students cope with crisis. The first section discusses communication research that is pertinent to helping students be prepared proactively to deal with relationship crises. Second, it focuses on strategies that teachers of interpersonal communication survey courses may use to deal with students who are already victims of these situations, and as a result, may be emotionally troubled, abusing drugs or alcohol, or have suicidal feelings. Although communication faculty often are perceived to be immediate and thus approached by troubled students, most are rarely qualified to dispense or perform counseling duties. Recommendations are made in …
From Paper To Praxis: Advancing The Discipline In A Small College Environment, Alfred G. Mueller Ii, Delmas S. Crisp Jr.
From Paper To Praxis: Advancing The Discipline In A Small College Environment, Alfred G. Mueller Ii, Delmas S. Crisp Jr.
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article proposes the advancement of communications discipline at a small college in Georgia. In the small liberal arts college, one tends to find many faculty members who have had little or no experience with departments of communication. It is also plausible that some approaches to the study of communication may be deemed unsuitable in a small liberal arts setting. To meet the demands of the millennial technological environment, the dean of the college decided to reexamine the communication major in terms of its scope and function on campus. The proposals for the advancement of the discipline are discussed herein.
An Investigation Of Audience Receptiveness To Non-Native Teaching Assistants, Eunkyong Lee Yook
An Investigation Of Audience Receptiveness To Non-Native Teaching Assistants, Eunkyong Lee Yook
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article examines the reliance of U.S. campuses on international teaching assistants (ITA) for staffing undergraduate course and the strategies that may affect ratings of their speaking competence. This increasing reliance has led to student complaints about incomprehensibility of ITA. This problem has been examined by looking through the eyes of the students, administrators and taxpayers. Therefore, the responsibility had been placed on the ITA, whose burden it was to learn the language and culture more fully. The goal of having ITA learn the language and culture better was eclipsing another important issue that needs consideration, the issue of teaching …
Graduate Program Assessment Of Student Satisfaction: A Method For Merging University And Department Outcomes, Jeremy H. Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt
Graduate Program Assessment Of Student Satisfaction: A Method For Merging University And Department Outcomes, Jeremy H. Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article evaluates a communication graduate program based upon the perceptions of alumni satisfaction. The department's assessment plan was utilized to measure their perceived knowledge of theory and research, as well as feelings about career preparation. The results indicate that assessment measures related to content taught may be linked to perceptions about quality, flexibility and facilities in a graduate program. Educational outcomes will continue to be an important issue for communication educators. It is critical that assessment data be collected, interpreted and used to revise curriculum in order to be responsive to needs. By doing this, communication programs will be …
Lecturers, Instructors, And Part-Timers: The Person V. The Position, James W. Sayer
Lecturers, Instructors, And Part-Timers: The Person V. The Position, James W. Sayer
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Presents an analysis, based on a personal experience as department chair, on issues surrounding the employment of non-tenure-line faculty, lecturers, instructors and adjuncts, and the difference between the person filling the position and the position itself. Thesis on the difference between the position and the person filling the position; Terms of employment; Conclusion.
Establishing The Department's Credibility With Central Administration, John J. Makay
Establishing The Department's Credibility With Central Administration, John J. Makay
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Presents an article about how the Department of Interpersonal Communication at Bowling Green State University in Ohio established its credibility. Principles applied in administering the department; Importance of promoting a department's image; Skills and attitude relevant to department chairperson.
Traditional And Applied Graduate Education: Special Challenges, William G. Powers, Don Love
Traditional And Applied Graduate Education: Special Challenges, William G. Powers, Don Love
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article addresses the difference in philosophy and instruction methods in communication graduate programs of the traditional and applied graduate education. Both the traditional and the applied programs are equal in intellectual challenges but with significant differences recognized and accounted for in faculty decision-making associated with course selection, content, and instructional strategy. Graduate programs that contain elements of both models are the more common in our field and face special challenges. In conclusion, administrators must establish and focus upon mutual respect for the commonalities held by the two approaches to graduate education and the support they have for each other, …
Grading Policy And Student Retention, Ralph R. Behnke, Chris R. Sawyer, Paul E. King
Grading Policy And Student Retention, Ralph R. Behnke, Chris R. Sawyer, Paul E. King
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article discuses two policies that work at cross purposes to one another which university administrators and faculty works collaboratively with. Schools are actively resisting grade inflation trends while at the same time seeking to retain students. The article describes the borderline student, a category of at risk student often overlooked, yet numerous. It is found that academic performance was the highest ranked risk factor, accounting for approximately 20% of the variance, while behavior and coping skills was a distant second, accounting for only 6% of the risk factor variance. Borderline students can be efficiently rescued with modest outlays of …
Award Winning Communication Programs: Centrality Or Confusion?, Mary E. Beadle, Jacqueline J. Schmidt
Award Winning Communication Programs: Centrality Or Confusion?, Mary E. Beadle, Jacqueline J. Schmidt
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article analyzes award winning communication programs. The winners of the Small College Interest Group's Programs of Excellence Award provide directions for achieving centrality and the goals outlined by the National Communication Association Task Force on Advancing the Discipline. They have similar names, degrees and locations within their institutions and they favor a holistic department and curricula that are interdisciplinary with strong department anchors. Most have assessment programs in place to maintain this quality. In most cases, they have identified themselves with the mission of their institution through courses and goals. These programs can provide some guidelines for departments in …
Critiques Of Gatekeeping In Scholarly Journals: An Analysis Of Perceptions And Data, Jean Bodon, Larry Powell, Mark Hickson Iii
Critiques Of Gatekeeping In Scholarly Journals: An Analysis Of Perceptions And Data, Jean Bodon, Larry Powell, Mark Hickson Iii
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article analyzes criticisms on the nature and functioning of the editorial boards of communication journals. There are certain elements in the pattern among the critics of journal articles and the journal publishing process. First, they tend to distort what was written in the original article by changing the words, concepts, or ideas. Second, they redefine the parameters of the study they are critiquing. Third, there is sometimes an element of hypocrisy in the critics' attack. However, from the analysis it would appear that editors attempt to maintain balance considering experience in publishing, geographic and institutional affiliation, and gender.
Advancing The Communication Discipline In The Community College Environment, Rhonda Kekke
Advancing The Communication Discipline In The Community College Environment, Rhonda Kekke
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article focuses on the advancement of communication discipline in community colleges across the U.S. Community colleges may or may not have a speech requirement for degree programs. If a community college does not have a speech requirement, or requires speech only or the Associate of Arts degree, there is a chance that it will not have sufficient enrollments or require the services of even one full-time speech instructor. Advancing the communication discipline in our new millennium is going to mean saving the best of what the discipline of speech communication has always meant, while adapting it to an ever-more-complicated …
Faculty And Student Expectations/Perceptions Of The Adviser-Advisee Relationship, Lawrence B. Nadler, Marjorie Keeshan Nadler
Faculty And Student Expectations/Perceptions Of The Adviser-Advisee Relationship, Lawrence B. Nadler, Marjorie Keeshan Nadler
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article discusses the importance of the relationship between faculty adviser and advisee. The faculty advising system is one of the principal ways provided for accomplishing improvement in faculty-student interaction. Direct contact with their advisees can benefit students in multiple ways. Contact with professional staff has been associated with increased retention among undergraduate university students. Students also benefit scholastically and affectively from such contact. Faculty and academic institutions also can derive benefits from the adviser-advisee relationship. The quality of the advising relationship is a major contributor to institutional holding power.
Building Excellence In Communication Studies: Illinois Speech Communication 1975-1995 As Exemplar, Delia G. Jesse
Building Excellence In Communication Studies: Illinois Speech Communication 1975-1995 As Exemplar, Delia G. Jesse
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Comments on the establishment of departmental excellence at the Speech Communication Department of the University of Illinois from 1975 to 1995. Application of the concept of constructivism in department administration; Context of program creation at the department; Principles that guided program-building.
Casino Drink Policies: Limiting Third-Party Liability, Larry D. Strate, Thomas J. A. Jones
Casino Drink Policies: Limiting Third-Party Liability, Larry D. Strate, Thomas J. A. Jones
Hospitality Review
In their efforts to provide an atmosphere or hospitality to their casino customers, many operators will provide complimentary alcoholic beverage service. This practice is fraught with liability, particularly in venues outside of Nevada. Conscientious operators must take every precaution to mitigate the possibility of lawsuit.
Casino Gambling Is Hot: Gambling Debt Collection Is Hot, Larry D. Strate
Casino Gambling Is Hot: Gambling Debt Collection Is Hot, Larry D. Strate
Hospitality Review
Gambling on credit, considered a vice by some, is not judicially collectible based upon the Statute of Anne. This common law statute prevents the collection of gambling losses, unless expected by state statute. This article reviews and updates the findings of an unenforceability of gambling debt study conducted in 1989 just prior to the rapid expansion of gambling in the United States.
Strategic Planning For A Communication Department: Process And Promise, Catherine Konsky
Strategic Planning For A Communication Department: Process And Promise, Catherine Konsky
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of planning, most notably strategic planning, and describes a process for developing a department strategic plan by involving the entire faculty in its creation. Principles of business planning and small group communication are joined to address academic department planning needs. Moreover, planning needs to capitalize on the essential soft information lacking in separate groups of planners such as planning departments frequently used in business settings. Soft information refers to experiential knowledge that comes, in this case, from faculty, doing the job as opposed to relying on the numerical data that drive many business …
Departmental Excellence: Constituencies In Tension, Ronald C. Arnett, Janie M. Harden Fritz
Departmental Excellence: Constituencies In Tension, Ronald C. Arnett, Janie M. Harden Fritz
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article explores the question of departmental excellence within historicity and temporality and the political demands of multiple constituencies. If one accepts excellence as a rhetorical construct of political significance for a college campus, then one requires knowledge of the primary constituencies shaping this political debate. The eventual political outcome is shaped through the interplay of three constituencies: the discipline, the local campus and the larger public. The task for every department that wants to pursue excellence is to know, understand and operate within the hidden curriculum of a campus that socializes faculty to the ongoing mission of that particular …
Employer Expectations Of Newly-Hired Communication Graduates, D. F. Treadwell, Jill B. Treadwell
Employer Expectations Of Newly-Hired Communication Graduates, D. F. Treadwell, Jill B. Treadwell
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article examines employers' expectations and perceptions of communication new hires at three points in the school-to-work transition, the initial job application, and the beginning and the end of the first year. This study focuses on writing and related conceptual abilities because for most communication new hires they are the foundation of both a successful job application, and therefore employers' first impressions, and of subsequent performance evaluations and progress. In conclusion, broad generalizations about the communication abilities of communication new hires may be unwarranted because performance expectations and the level and types of assessment vary with the type of position, …
Advancing The Discipline: Guidelines From The Experience Of Colleagues, Samuel L. Becker
Advancing The Discipline: Guidelines From The Experience Of Colleagues, Samuel L. Becker
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Introduces articles from the issue about the disciplinary advancement of the communication departments of various colleges and universities.
John Carroll's Department Of Communication: Growth At A Small University, Jacqueline J. Schmidt
John Carroll's Department Of Communication: Growth At A Small University, Jacqueline J. Schmidt
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article examines the Department of Communications at John Carroll University between 1984 and 1999. John Carroll is an independent, Catholic, coeducational university founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus. It is located in University Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The Department of Communications is located in the Humanities division of the College of Arts and Sciences. Essential for the growth of the department has been a clear holistic philosophy that have been implemented in hiring, budget, curriculum and co-curricular decisions.
Protecting Communication Departments: Reflections On The Nebraska Experience, Lee Ronald, William Seiler
Protecting Communication Departments: Reflections On The Nebraska Experience, Lee Ronald, William Seiler
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article reflects on the vulnerabilities and strengths of communication departments at the University of Nebraska. The relatively small size of communication departments makes them especially vulnerable to administrative budget cutters. For a complex set of reasons, particular disciplines have become defining elements of universities in the U.S. Unfortunately, communication departments have not achieved such status. The professional organizations need to do more than offer the occasional workshop, they ought to make a concerted effort to help communications departments maximize the discipline's opportunity and make the field of communication valuable to students and become ever more essential to the university.
Report Of The Sub-Committee On Advancing The Discipline In The Small Undergraduate College Department, Joseph W. Macdoniels
Report Of The Sub-Committee On Advancing The Discipline In The Small Undergraduate College Department, Joseph W. Macdoniels
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article presents the response of a subcommittee of the National Communication Association to a report of the Task Force on Advancing the Discipline concerning small undergraduate college departments. It is essential that departments figure out what the institutional mission is and be very clear on the department mission. Units must come to a clear understanding of the true institutional mission and develop the unit mission accordingly. The subcommittee has identified areas of concern that derive from the task force document and it has stated positions which are intended to alert or inform the small undergraduate college program of pitfalls …
Fund-Raising As A Persuasive Act, Robert C. Jeffrey
Fund-Raising As A Persuasive Act, Robert C. Jeffrey
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Presents an article about a fund-raising strategy implemented by a dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas in Austin. Application of the Aristotelian principles in fund raising; Processes involved in fund raising; Factors relevant to selecting prospective donors.
A Dose Of Public Health Through Grassroots Advocacy: The Development Of Tobacco-Control Policy On A College Campus, G. Lea Bryant
A Dose Of Public Health Through Grassroots Advocacy: The Development Of Tobacco-Control Policy On A College Campus, G. Lea Bryant
Maine Policy Review
Maine has the unfortunate distinction of having the highest rate of tobacco use among 18- to 30-year-olds of any state in the nation. Moreover—as Bryant points out—first-time smoking among traditional college-age populations has risen nearly 30 percent in the past decade. Armed with these statistics, it is not difficult to conclude that college campuses in Maine face a serious public health issue. Carried by the momentum of recent tobacco-control policy developments at the state level, the University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) has passed a stringent new tobacco-control policy that places UMF in the forefront of nationwide efforts to curb …