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Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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A Summary Of Ideas For Sustaining Communication Programs, Paul E. Nelson Jan 1995

A Summary Of Ideas For Sustaining Communication Programs, Paul E. Nelson

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This article offers several ideals for communication programs that want to persist through hard times. The ideal model for a faculty member varies by institution and level of instruction. If one is the major of last resort on the campus, if one is more likely to attract football players than members of the National Honors Society, and if one attracts majors because they do not have to take math, then one need better recruitment. On the other hand, grade inflation is a national problem, and it crosses many disciplines. The engineers and scientists tend to attract first rate students, but …

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Gendered Administration: A Naturalistic Study, Susan R. Mondschein Jan 1995

Gendered Administration: A Naturalistic Study, Susan R. Mondschein

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This article describes the responses of the six higher education administrators in the U.S. regarding the effect of gender on workings of higher education administration. The six people interviewed have the belief that gender is basic to people's functioning and certainly to people's functioning as administrators. One of the administrators make a general statement that a major portion of the effect gender has on the workings of higher administration lies in the perceptions administrators develop about each other in terms of individual embodiment of or violation of enculturated expectations for males and females as applied to administration.

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Tenure Traps: Legal Issues Of Concern, Donald A. Drapeau Jan 1995

Tenure Traps: Legal Issues Of Concern, Donald A. Drapeau

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Comments on the issues concerning the tenure of a faculty member. Significance of having a published guidelines and procedures on tenure; Information on the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S.; Explanation on the trends in the law which is related to issues of tenure.

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Recreating New Departments, From Name Change To…., Stephen Taft Jan 1995

Recreating New Departments, From Name Change To…., Stephen Taft

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This article reflects on the changes made within the Speech Communications and Theater Department in a liberal arts, religious affiliated college. Theater is a business and it is the goal of the department to challenge, to push and to prepare students with such dreams in the classroom and in production. And the educational process must be implemented in a manner that will best prepare the student for the harsh realities of the business. Departmental goals and objectives traditionally reflect the philosophy of a department. Prospective students who compare past and present catalogs describing the program will notice a dramatic change …

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Ohio University's College Of Communication, Paul E. Nelson Jan 1995

Ohio University's College Of Communication, Paul E. Nelson

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This article focuses on the College of Communication at Ohio University. The College of Communication began in 1968 when Ohio University united a School of Journalism with a School of Interpersonal Communication, a School of Radio and Television, a School of Speech Pathology and Audiology and a Telecommunications Center. Being organized into a College of Communication with Directors of Schools brings certain advantages, including at promotion and tenure time, the faculty in the school make the primary decision, a professional orientation encourages support from outside constituencies and internship programs in every School across the College provide job opportunities and valuable …

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Elliott School Of Communication Wichita State University, Vernon Keel Jan 1995

Elliott School Of Communication Wichita State University, Vernon Keel

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This article provides information on the Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University. The Elliott School of Communication was established in 1989 merging the former departments of journalism and speech communication. The school is located in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and functions as both an academic department and a professional school. It is an integrated communication program that is built on the strengths of the traditions of mass communication and speech communication. While the Elliott School of Communication was established in 1989, discussion actually began five years before that when then-university president Warren Armstrong suggested in …

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Looking Beyond The Immediate Crisis Response: Analyzing The Organizational Culture To Understand The Crisis, Curt Bechler Jan 1995

Looking Beyond The Immediate Crisis Response: Analyzing The Organizational Culture To Understand The Crisis, Curt Bechler

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This article analyzes the organizational culture at Olivet College in Michigan. The organizational response has been the subject of the most of the discussion on organizational exigencies. Perhaps most telling is the focus on organizational planning and preparation. Crisis planning allows individuals within the organization to change their view of the factors that constitute a crisis, since planning often reduces the severity of the event by lowering the uncertainties of how to respond. Communication is central to the resolution of a crisis situation. In fact, some would argue that organizations should focus on crisis communication instead of crisis management.

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Dacum: A National Database Justifying The Study Of Speech Communication, Isa N. Engleberg, Dianna R. Wynn Jan 1995

Dacum: A National Database Justifying The Study Of Speech Communication, Isa N. Engleberg, Dianna R. Wynn

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This article proposes that Developing A Curriculum (DACUM), a standardized curriculum development process, be tapped to justify the study of speech communication in higher education. DACUM is a standardized method for determining curricular needs. Its purpose is to identify the duties, tasks and skills performed in a particular occupation, career area or profession. DACUM assumes that successful workers are best equipped to identify the competencies needed in their specific occupation. DACUM was created by he Canada Department of Manpower and Immigration and the General Learning Corp. of New York.

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Secession, Combination And Creation: From Old Departments To New, Susan S. Cole Jan 1995

Secession, Combination And Creation: From Old Departments To New, Susan S. Cole

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Relates an experience in combining and creating a combined theater departments. Factors to consider in separating art departments; Arguments she made for the creation a new department; Problems associated with the combination of the departments.

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Looking Ahead: Video Courses In Business And Management Communication, Elizabeth M. Lynn Jan 1995

Looking Ahead: Video Courses In Business And Management Communication, Elizabeth M. Lynn

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The article discusses the growing economic pressures to develop audio-visual materials for teaching business communication to college students and looks at the major obstacles in creating telecourses in the U.S. Due to the aging U.S. population and increasing cost of college education, U.S. schools resort to distance learning to attract older students and maintain the cost of education. Growing corporate initiatives to provide communication skill training to employees also increase the demand for videotaped business communication instruction. Major obstacles in developing telecourses include its limited capacity to teach behavioral skills in communication and quality control issues.

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The Hybrid Master's Degree: Combining Research With Practice, David C. Coulson., Travis Linn Jan 1995

The Hybrid Master's Degree: Combining Research With Practice, David C. Coulson., Travis Linn

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The article discusses the development of a hybrid master degree program by the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada in Reno. Since the journalism faculty of the school is too small to offer a full-service master's degree, the school developed a hybrid program that integrates systematic research with practice-based education. The program is designed to equip students with knowledge in academic research in preparation to doctoral studies. The program also emphasizes the study of mass media to prepare students for professional careers in broadcast journalism.

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What Is Happening To The Communication Disciplines?, Paul E. Nelson Jan 1995

What Is Happening To The Communication Disciplines?, Paul E. Nelson

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introduces a series of articles in the special issue on communication programs of colleges and universities in the U.S.

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Ohio State University's Merger: Journalism And Communication, Lee B. Becker Jan 1995

Ohio State University's Merger: Journalism And Communication, Lee B. Becker

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Presents the author's opinion on events surrounding proposed and completed changes in communication research and instruction at Ohio State University, as of September 1995. Implications of reducing resources devoted to communication education, research and service for the university; Key issue facing the School of Journalism; Criteria for evaluating the success of the university.

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Demise Of The College Of Communications And Fine Arts At Siuc, Gerald Stone Jan 1995

Demise Of The College Of Communications And Fine Arts At Siuc, Gerald Stone

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This article focuses on significant events leading to the demise of the College of Communications and Fine Arts (CCFA) at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) in 1993. The CCFA at SIUC was one of the largest units of its kind in the country. It had been in existence almost 25 years, formed when the fine arts school joined the School of Communications. In 1990, Jim Edgar was elected governor of Illinois, the first Republican in recent memory. The change in political fortunes brought a new head of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the coordinating body for all post-secondary …

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A New Direction: Internationalizing Communication Programs, Sue Dewine Jan 1995

A New Direction: Internationalizing Communication Programs, Sue Dewine

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This article describes a successful effort to expand an already strong program to include a focus on international education as well. With the founding of Ohio State University in 1804, and classes beginning in 1808, the first courses in what was later to become the School of Interpersonal Communication were offered. Logic, persuasion and rhetoric were three of the major and early oral communication study areas. The current school was predated by elocution courses in 1888, a School of Oratory in 1912, the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts in 1930 and the School of Dramatic Art and Speech in …

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New Curricular Categories For The Future: University Of North Dakota School Of Communication, Lana Rakow Jan 1995

New Curricular Categories For The Future: University Of North Dakota School Of Communication, Lana Rakow

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This article provides information on new curricular categories of the University of North Dakota School of Communication, as of September 1995. The school historically has had a highly visible leadership role in the state of North Dakota, particularly with newspapers and broadcast stations in the state. Rather than limiting the possibility for change, however, its visibility joined other factors in making conditions for change favorable. The new curriculum streamlines the five into one, communication. This new curriculum is both mission driven and assessment driven. The new mission statement and goals for student learning set out the intellectual integration of communication …

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A National Profile Of Experiential Education Trends In Communication Master's Degree Programs, Timothy S. Sellnow, Robert S. Littlefield, Deanna D. Sellnow Jan 1994

A National Profile Of Experiential Education Trends In Communication Master's Degree Programs, Timothy S. Sellnow, Robert S. Littlefield, Deanna D. Sellnow

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This article seeks to provide a profile of internships used in communication master's degree programs in the U.S. An internship is defined as receiving graduate credit for practical experience gained outside the classroom, with some degree of supervision by a faculty member. Based upon the data presented, experiential opportunities in communication serve to connect theory and practice. The nature of an internship at the graduate level appears to be more complex than at the undergraduate level. The formal paper appears to be the most common means for evaluating graduate internships. Formal papers are consistently used in academia to measure student …

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An Investigation Of The Communication Skills And Communication Needs Of Academic And Civil Service Administrators, Earl E. Mcdowell Jan 1994

An Investigation Of The Communication Skills And Communication Needs Of Academic And Civil Service Administrators, Earl E. Mcdowell

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This article presents a study which is designed to determine the level of importance of communication skills for academic and civil service administrators in an academic setting. Two samples of administrators participated in the study, including 120 academic administrators and 120 civil service administrators from a midwestern university. The questionnaires were sent through campus mail to random samples of academic administrators and civil service administrators. Exploratory analyses were completed to determine if differences existed between genders. The results basically show that gender is not a good discriminating variable because of the high within group variances and limited between group variances. …

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The Impact Of Situational Elements Upon An Internship Director's Supervisory Style: A Model, Shelly Schaefer Hinck, William O. Dailey Jan 1994

The Impact Of Situational Elements Upon An Internship Director's Supervisory Style: A Model, Shelly Schaefer Hinck, William O. Dailey

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This article argues that internship directors must examine the constraints and objectives of their program and then select an appropriate supervisory style in order to be effective. Considering the many benefits associated with the internship experience, it is not surprising that over one thousand colleges and universities in the U.S. offer some type of internship program. What is surprising is that internship directors looking for suggestions on internship administration find little research devoted to developing effective administrative decisions. The relationship between the intern, the faculty coordinator, and the site supervisor may be of a helping nature whereby the faculty coordinator …

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Alternative Assessment In Speech Communication, Ellen A. Hay Jan 1994

Alternative Assessment In Speech Communication, Ellen A. Hay

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This article aims to promote alternative assessment in the field of speech communication. Speech communication departments in a number of colleges and universities have adopted alternative practices as they have developed their assessment programs. For example, the faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City examined and redesigned their curriculum so that students were required to show competence in interpersonal communication, critical thinking, language use, leadership, reading, research, public speaking, cultural appreciation, writing, decision making, theoretical understanding, and ethical/philosophical appreciation. Clearly, developing and implementing alternative assessment strategies is time consuming and costly. First, alternative assessment more fully meets the demand for …

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Academic Departments In China, James Schnell Jan 1994

Academic Departments In China, James Schnell

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The article describes the management of academic departments in Beijing, The People's Republic of China. Academic departments in China have parallels with academic departments in the U.S. but there are marked differences. Key differences between the Chinese and U.S. systems deal with professors serving as role models and the selection of who will work as professors. Teachers in China are expected to serve as role models in moral, as well as academic, development.

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Applying Communication Studies In Hong Kong, John Lee Jellicorse Jan 1994

Applying Communication Studies In Hong Kong, John Lee Jellicorse

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The article discusses the trends in communication education in Hong Kong, China. Since communication is labor intensive, the need for personnel is swelling rapidly. Obviously, academic institutions in the region are faced with a tremendous challenge to encompass these developments. The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist is attempting to meet the challenge. Hong Kong Baptist College, then a small, private diploma granting institution funded primarily from tuition fees, initiated its first program in communication. During the crucial period of its maturation from a diploma program to a degree course, the communication curriculum at Hong Kong Baptist was administered …

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More Self-Evident Truths For Departmental Governance, James E. Sayer Jan 1994

More Self-Evident Truths For Departmental Governance, James E. Sayer

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This article provides some thoughts about the pitfalls and problems associated with the lowest-level of academic administration. If nothing else, service as department chair can open the eyes to the real world of petty faculty politics in a way unknown and unseen by a regular faculty member. Finally, a new department chairperson must be aware that every move made on behalf of the department, every decision rendered, regardless of its mundane nature, will be scrutinized by colleagues for selfish intent. Graduate school does not prepare a person for service as departmental chairperson, nor do years of service as a regular …

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Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech And Campus Speech Codes, William A. Haskins Jan 1994

Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech And Campus Speech Codes, William A. Haskins

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This article argues that speech codes are not the answer to curbing offensive communication. The typical response to curbing verbal aggression on campuses throughout the U.S. has come in the form of speech codes--designed to prevent offensive communication. Speech codes, however, are not new phenomena to the U.S. landscape. Landmark Supreme Court decisions have provided numerous types of speech codes for identifying messages falling within and outside the boundaries of legally protected speech. All members, then, in the communication process engage in the creation of meaning. And more, they must take responsibility for not only the formation of meaning in …

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A Framework For Surveying Communication Effectiveness In Institutions Of Higher Education, Charmaine E. Wilson, Sandra Hochel Jan 1994

A Framework For Surveying Communication Effectiveness In Institutions Of Higher Education, Charmaine E. Wilson, Sandra Hochel

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This article examines a framework for assessing communication effectiveness in higher education in the U.S. In light of cost concerns, most colleges and universities will opt for using internal expertise. This option is particularly feasible for post-secondary institutions in that they are likely to have available in-house expertise needed to conduct an effective assessment. The step of identifying available expertise from communication and other appropriate units is needed to gain broad expertise and multiple perspectives, avoid attributions of private agendas, and encourage units under analysis to view the process as a community effort. The assessing committee will want to set …

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Newspaper Readership Among College Students In The Information Age: The Influence Of Telecommunication Technology, David J. Atkin Jan 1994

Newspaper Readership Among College Students In The Information Age: The Influence Of Telecommunication Technology, David J. Atkin

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This article focuses on the influence of telecommunication technology on newspaper readership among college students in the U.S. during the 1990s. The findings presented suggest an explanatory role for such factors as age in readership. Income and marital status are also important correlates of readership, perhaps because they gauge one's stake or integration in the local community. The resulting loss of afternoon leisure was a leading cause in the decline of afternoon papers, which have been substituted with nightly TV news reporting. Given the role that demographic and media use variables play in newspaper readership, it will be important to …

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Organizational Performance: Playing The Field, Ronald J. Pelias, Elyse Lamm Pineau Jan 1994

Organizational Performance: Playing The Field, Ronald J. Pelias, Elyse Lamm Pineau

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Presents an article about organizational performance. Experience of giving a presentation at a convention; Steps toward becoming a member of a team; Role of heroes and role models in society.

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Mass Communication Education: A Plastic Rolex?, Tim Hamlett Jan 1994

Mass Communication Education: A Plastic Rolex?, Tim Hamlett

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This article discusses several aspects of mass communication education in the U.S. during the 1990s. According to professor J. M. McCall, communication educators should be telling communication professionals three things. The first is that academics do know what the profession requires. The second is that knowing perfectly well what the profession requires, the academics have decided not to provide it. The third observation is that there is no place in a university for that kind of education, which is trade skills and vocational training. McCall's case for change rest on two pillars: university politics and finances; and media studies in …

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Creating A Climate Of Inclusion: Success Starts At Home, Marsha Houston Jan 1994

Creating A Climate Of Inclusion: Success Starts At Home, Marsha Houston

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This article discusses positive climate for recruiting and retaining faculty of color on predominantly white campuses. Student bodies (including their minority student components) differ greatly from one campus environment to another. For example, the personal politics, and social and academic expectations of the affluent students at Tulane are vastly different from those of the working class students at an urban commuter college. In addition, so much of what makes a campus environment a positive one for students is outside of our control as faculty. There are three features that help create a desirable climate for faculty and students of color: …

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Unique Approaches And Problems In Recruiting Minority Students: The Use Of The Media, Richard R. Ranta Jan 1994

Unique Approaches And Problems In Recruiting Minority Students: The Use Of The Media, Richard R. Ranta

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This article attempts to put the University of Memphis (UM) in a positive light by providing a vehicle to show that African-American students play a significant role at the University and have indeed been successful both at entering the University and while attending the University. The University has been so successful in graduating minority students that the Educational Testing Service is studying the University's programs to see if UM success can be duplicated at other institutions. Obviously, recruitment involves a variety of approaches other than media including a special fall and spring African-American Recruitment Day, special enrichment institutes during the …

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