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Sexual Harassment In Academic Settings: Implications For Personal Ethical Behavior, Christine Oravec Oct 1983

Sexual Harassment In Academic Settings: Implications For Personal Ethical Behavior, Christine Oravec

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Opening with examples from communication and university settings, this article examines sexual harassment as an ethical problem in academic life. It reviews studies of harassment incidence, definitions, perceived seriousness, and consequences, while emphasizing power differences between faculty and students, possible manipulation of academic rewards, and harms to confidence, mentoring, evaluation, and institutional trust. The article distinguishes personal, institutional, and legal concerns, then focuses on ethical responsibilities that remain even when conduct is not formally prosecuted. It also discusses student use of sexuality, harassment of men, and harassment of faculty women. The article concludes with personal conduct guidelines for instructors, including …


Pacific Review Aug/Sept 1983, Pacific Alumni Association Sep 1983

Pacific Review Aug/Sept 1983, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.


Nova University Center For Higher Education Eleventh Annual Summer Institute: “New Technology - How New Is It?" August 7-13, 1983, Nova University Aug 1983

Nova University Center For Higher Education Eleventh Annual Summer Institute: “New Technology - How New Is It?" August 7-13, 1983, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.


Law Training As Preparation For Communication Administration, David Jamison Aug 1983

Law Training As Preparation For Communication Administration, David Jamison

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines law training as a resource for communication administration and academic leadership. It identifies legal study as a source of habits that may help administrators analyze problems, narrow disputes, practice advocacy, reason through probabilities, and attend to ethical responsibility. The discussion first reviews what legal education seeks to impart, including attention to experience, analysis, advocacy, probable judgment, and professional ethics. It then applies these assumptions to department heads, deans, and program administrators who manage scarce resources, curriculum change, faculty concerns, institutional politics, and arguments for program value. The article does not claim that lawyers make superior administrators. Instead, …


An Analysis Of Degree-Granting Institutions And Number Of Articles Published By Their Graduates, Don W. Stacks, Mark L. Hickson Iii Aug 1983

An Analysis Of Degree-Granting Institutions And Number Of Articles Published By Their Graduates, Don W. Stacks, Mark L. Hickson Iii

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Using publication data from major speech communication journals, this article examines institutional prestige by tracing where published authors earned their highest degrees. Rather than ranking departments by current faculty output, the study credits articles to the institutions granting authors’ degrees, arguing that graduate productivity offers another indicator of program influence. The analysis reports patterns by degree level, departmental affiliation, and degree granting institution, then compares the resulting rankings with earlier studies based on departmental productivity and editorial board membership. The article identifies broad overlap among several ranking approaches while cautioning that publication counts do not measure article quality and may …


Come On Administrators: Get Off Our Backs, Gordon R. Owen Aug 1983

Come On Administrators: Get Off Our Backs, Gordon R. Owen

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Drawing on experience as a postsecondary speech educator, this commentary critiques administrative policies that prioritize publication counts over teaching quality and faculty judgment. It argues that pressures tied to enrollment decline, retrenchment, tenure insecurity, and managerial self preservation can make faculty the scapegoat and reduce educational quality. The essay challenges assumptions that teaching quality cannot be measured, that research and publication are equivalent, that publication totals are universally accepted measures of excellence, that submission readily produces publication, that publication guarantees quality, that experimental quantitative work should outrank other forms of inquiry, and that conference travel is justified only by presenting …


Student Retention: A Top Priority For The 80'S, Mary Lou Hlggerson, David Buckley Aug 1983

Student Retention: A Top Priority For The 80'S, Mary Lou Hlggerson, David Buckley

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Responding to declining enrollments and budget pressures, this article frames student retention as a central concern for college and university administrators. It distinguishes undesirable attrition from appropriate student departure and argues that institutions should focus on students who might persist with better advising, support, and institutional contact. The discussion reviews shifts in retention research from predicting dropouts through admissions data toward improving student and institution interaction. It identifies challenges in tracking potential dropouts, including inadequate information systems, incomplete exit interviews, and limited records on students who leave. The article proposes mapping key interaction points, training faculty and staff in communication …


Evaluative Perceptions Of Doctoral Programs In Communication, 1982, Renee Edwards, Larry Barker Aug 1983

Evaluative Perceptions Of Doctoral Programs In Communication, 1982, Renee Edwards, Larry Barker

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Updating earlier ACA sponsored evaluations of doctoral programs in speech communication, this survey reports peer perceptions gathered from two Speech Communication Association samples: a random membership sample and a sample of first authors in major communication journals. Respondents rated programs in rhetorical and communication theory, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, mass communication, public address, communication education, oral interpretation, and overall quality. The article presents rankings and ratings by specialty area and compares patterns across the two respondent groups. It emphasizes that peer evaluation is only one indicator of program quality and cautions readers to interpret rankings by broad ranges rather than …


Managing Communication Stress: The Implications For Communication Administrators, John C. Relnard, John E. Crawford Aug 1983

Managing Communication Stress: The Implications For Communication Administrators, John C. Relnard, John E. Crawford

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines stress management as a concern for communication administrators and departmental leadership. It distinguishes stress, strain, generativity, and burnout, presenting a staged model in which pressures may lead from stress to strain and exhaustion unless moderated by coping orientations and coping actions. The discussion treats administrator burnout as a special case of the stress cycle, linking it to frustrated commitments, reduced efficiency, withdrawal, maintenance patterns, and exhaustion. It reviews personal and social resources associated with coping, including perceived control, personal orientation, interpersonal orientation, support systems, and stress management options. The article also considers organizational responses for communication administration, …


Collective Bargaining And Academic Administration: The Significant Overlap, Albert Lewis Aug 1983

Collective Bargaining And Academic Administration: The Significant Overlap, Albert Lewis

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines the overlap between collective bargaining and academic administration in communication departments. It uses a four process model of labor negotiation to compare bargaining work with departmental leadership, focusing on distributive bargaining, integrative bargaining, attitudinal structuring, and intraorganizational bargaining. The discussion connects negotiation over scarce resources with administrative decisions about equipment, faculty positions, operating funds, and program priorities. It also considers how problem solving, cooperation, trust, and legitimacy shape both contract administration and departmental governance. The article emphasizes the boundary role faced by negotiators and chairpersons, who must represent constituencies while working with external decision makers. It suggests …


Theory Z And Administrative Management, Judy Cureton, Bob Cureton Aug 1983

Theory Z And Administrative Management, Judy Cureton, Bob Cureton

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Focused on communication departments in higher education, this article considers Theory Z as a framework for administrative management during periods of limited resources. It describes Theory Z as an approach grounded in participatory decision making, egalitarian relationships, delegation, shared philosophy, and attention to human resources. The discussion links these principles to communication administration by emphasizing consensus, quality circles, departmental self study, consumer definitions of program quality, and long range planning. It also addresses hiring, evaluation, rewards, recognition, and the influence of individual interests on departmental objectives. The article closes by discussing trust, subtlety, and intimacy as interpersonal foundations for management, …


Campus And Community Graduate Assistant Programs, Gerald V. Flannery Aug 1983

Campus And Community Graduate Assistant Programs, Gerald V. Flannery

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Amid reductions in federal and state support, this report describes a communication department strategy for expanding graduate assistantship funding through campus and community partnerships. The department solicited nonprofit organizations, selected businesses, and university units with communication related needs, offering graduate students’ assistance with public relations, speeches, news releases, photography, brochures, newsletters, and related tasks. The report explains how tuition and fee waivers, university foundation donations, and tax deductible contributions could support assistantships while benefiting participating agencies and campus offices. It presents the Community Program as a way to diversify support beyond normal graduate school funding and notes early pledges, future …


For Your Action: A Practical Job Search Guide For The Liberal Arts Student, Sheryl A. Friedley Aug 1983

For Your Action: A Practical Job Search Guide For The Liberal Arts Student, Sheryl A. Friedley

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews the book "For Your Action: A Practical Job Search Guide for the Liberal Arts Student," by Wayne Wallace, Carol French Wagner, Nancy Pentecost and Pam Houston (1982). Career Options Projects, Bloomington IN.


1983 Commencement, Nova Southeastern University Jul 1983

1983 Commencement, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Nova University Abstracts Of Presentations, Eleventh Annual Summer Institute "New Technology — How New Is It?" August 7–13, 1983, Marriott's Rancho Las Palmas, Palm Springs, California, Nova University Jul 1983

Nova University Abstracts Of Presentations, Eleventh Annual Summer Institute "New Technology — How New Is It?" August 7–13, 1983, Marriott's Rancho Las Palmas, Palm Springs, California, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.


Pacific Review May/June 1983, Pacific Alumni Association Jun 1983

Pacific Review May/June 1983, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - May, 23, 1983, Nova University May 1983

Monday Update - May, 23, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


1983 Commencement - 14th Annual Commencement Exercises - Nova University Center For The Study Of Law Commencement 1983, Nova Southeastern University May 1983

1983 Commencement - 14th Annual Commencement Exercises - Nova University Center For The Study Of Law Commencement 1983, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 21, 1983. May 1983

Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 21, 1983.

Bryant University Commencements

Bryant University Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 21, 1983.


Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 20, 1983. May 1983

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 20, 1983.

Bryant University Commencements

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 20, 1983.


Monday Update - May 9, 1983, Nova University May 1983

Monday Update - May 9, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - April 22, 1983, Nova University Apr 1983

Monday Update - April 22, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - April 11, 1983, Nova University Apr 1983

Monday Update - April 11, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


Pacific Review March/April 1983, Pacific Alumni Association Apr 1983

Pacific Review March/April 1983, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - March 14, 1983, Nova University Mar 1983

Monday Update - March 14, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - February 28, 1983, Nova University Feb 1983

Monday Update - February 28, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - February 14, 1983, Nova University Feb 1983

Monday Update - February 14, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


Pacific Review Jan/Feb 1983, Pacific Alumni Association Feb 1983

Pacific Review Jan/Feb 1983, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - January 31, 1983, Nova University Jan 1983

Monday Update - January 31, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.


Monday Update - January 17, 1983, Nova University Jan 1983

Monday Update - January 17, 1983, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.