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Minutes Executive Committee Dupont Plaza, Washington, Dc October, 1989

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

The annual meeting of the Association for Communication Administration (ACA)'s Executive Committee, held in October 1989 at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in Washington D.C.

A Response To The Roper Report On Electronic Career Preparation, David E. Tucker

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article evaluates an influential survey of broadcast executives that judged college preparation for electronic media careers. Through content analysis of the report’s findings, this article identifies conceptual ambiguity surrounding entry level positions, limited response detail, and reliance on broad generalizations. It highlights how undefined variables, including market size and curricular diversity, weaken claims that graduates lack real world skills, writing competence, and technology experience. The critique questions recommendations advocating industry instructors, faculty externships, and expanded internship programs, noting structural constraints in liberal arts curricula and institutional finance. By situating methodological flaws within media studies and higher education literature, this …

The Influence Of Structure On The Function Of An Administrative Unit: Single Focus Academic Structure Or Multiple Focus Academic Structure Raising -- Some Of The Issues, Robert F. Ross, Philip Emmert

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article applies systems theory to examine how academic structure influences departmental functions within small universities, it contrasts single focus academic departments and multiple focus academic departments, assessing their effects on instruction, research, service, enrollment stability, credit hour production, faculty workload, budget flexibility, and administrative power. Through conceptual analysis and illustrative cases, this article argues that multiple focus configurations foster interdisciplinary curriculum, broaden student recruitment, and enable efficient resource allocation, while single focus units face constrained scheduling, program vulnerability, and duplicated governance tasks. It details how structure shapes faculty roles, advising practices, laboratory sharing, graduate program coordination, and external relations, …

The Relationship Of Structure To Function At The Community College Level: Saddleback College As Model, Lvnn K. Wells

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article analyzes how evolving governance arrangements in California public higher education shape operational decisions within a suburban community college speech communication department. Drawing on organizational analysis, it traces the effects of state reform legislation AB 1725, district campus hierarchies, and divisional affiliations on funding streams, credit hour generation, staffing ratios, course scheduling, and general education curriculum. The discussion shows that dependence on statewide full time equivalent student formulas and divisional budget priorities constrains capital purchases, promotes high enrollment basic courses, and limits elective offerings. Curriculum mandates requiring oral communication, writing, and critical thinking further complicate program design, while board …

The Value Of Fuzzy Lines, Stephen W. King

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article develops an organizational scheme that explains how administrative structure influences the long term viability of communication programs in higher education. Drawing on organizational theory, it crosses composition and governance dimensions to build a two by two matrix that positions departments along continua from compositionally unified to compositionally diffused and from organizationally coherent to organizationally isolated. Through conceptual argument grounded in bureaucratic analysis, this article advances four propositions linking structural position to instructional capacity, research collaboration, external funding, resource allocation, political influence, and curricular flexibility. It contends that programs located in the unified coherent quadrant capitalize on economies of …

Planning Departmental Structure: Disciplinary Integrity Versus Pragmatic Opportunism, Lloyd Crisp, David Seibert

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article interrogates whether speech communication departments should pursue disciplinary coherence or embrace pragmatic opportunism while adapting to shifting institutional environments. Through case study analysis of structural evolution at a land grant university and a suburban research campus, it traces how size, articulation mandates, physical facilities, campus politics, curricular demand, public image, and faculty composition interact to shape organizational structure, program identity, governance, and resource allocation. A systems theory perspective yields ten planning criteria, showing that alignment with local contingencies rather than idealized disciplinary purity sustains enrollment stability, instructional quality, and faculty legitimacy. By framing communication studies as a socially …

The Reality Of Recruiting Minority And Women Faculty In Speech Communication: Some Considerations, Deborah Borisoff

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines structural and cultural obstacles that speech communication departments face when recruiting, hiring, and retaining minority and women faculty within U S higher education. Drawing on case based observations from multiple institutions, this article traces how pipeline shortages, geographic isolation, competitive salary markets, and implicit evaluative bias intersect with affirmative action mandates to shape faculty diversity outcomes. Discussion highlights the tension between legal compliance and attitudinal change, explores how tenure criteria emphasizing quantity over quality of research can disadvantage underrepresented scholars, and outlines strategies such as early mentoring, targeted doctoral recruitment, inclusive search processes, community integration support, and …

Quotas Or Goals: Fulfilling The Affirmative Action Mandate, Lea P. Stewart

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article traces the evolution of affirmative action from labor legislation to current civil rights policy, illustrating how proactive recruitment rather than numerical quotas can strengthen faculty diversity in speech communication departments. Drawing on legal analysis, organizational theory, and practical experience at a large public university, this article argues that eliminating negative stereotypes requires intentional expansion of applicant pools, systematic networking with protected groups, and individualized mentoring during searches. It details procedures such as targeted advertising, personal outreach, and balanced evaluation criteria that attract qualified scholars from underrepresented communities without compromising academic rigor. By positioning affirmative action as a goal …

Norman Cousins Speaks To Aca 17th Annual Presidential Seminar

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article focuses on the speech delivered by Norman Cousins, noted author and educator of the U.S., at the 17th Annual Presidential Seminar of the Association for Communication Administration (ACA), held in Washington D.C.

Minutes Of Aca Business Meeting, Dupont Plaza Hotel, Washington, Dc October 22, 1989

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Minutes of the Association for Communication Administration (ACA)'s business meeting, held on October 22, 1989, at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in Washington D.C.

The Structure And Function Of A Community College Speech Communication Department, Francine Roussell Berkey

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article traces how organizational structure directs curriculum development, resource allocation, and staffing in a rural community college speech communication department. By situating the unit within state financing, divisional governance, and institutional committees, this article explains how structure shapes course scheduling, credit hour production, budget flexibility, and faculty workload. Structural analysis reveals that limited fiscal autonomy and small enrollment encourage service oriented curricula, reliance on adjunct instructors, and continuous adaptation to external program reviews. Functional outcomes are linked to broader institutional demands, while an evolutionary perspective highlights recent reorganization debates and their implications for departmental resilience. Findings provide communication administrators …

Coming Up Short: No Quick Fixes, Elmer E. Baker Jr

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article critiques the belief that minority faculty underrepresentation can be remedied through quick fixes, showing instead that entrenched structural and cultural forces require sustained, systemic responses. Drawing on national doctorate statistics, affirmative action surveys, and illustrative programs at Duke, Bucknell, and Stanford, this article traces how shrinking doctoral pipelines, lucrative private sector opportunities, rising tuition, and inadequate precollege preparation erode the supply of prospective scholars of color. It further reveals that once hired, minority professors encounter disproportionate advising loads, heavy committee service, isolation, and tenure expectations emphasizing quantitative publication metrics. Employing perspectives from higher education administration, diversity research, organizational …

To Hell With The Forest: Find The Trees, Dan F. Hahn

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article critiques assumptions that simple market dynamics will resolve faculty diversity deficits, examining how structural and cultural factors in higher education continue to impede the recruitment, tenure, and retention of minority and women scholars. Using argumentative analysis situated in communication administration, this article outlines how impending retirements and a shrinking doctorate pipeline intersect with committee service overload, student mentoring demands, and evaluative bias to constrain publication productivity and tenure success. Discussion explores how research focusing on oppression can activate prejudice within personnel review, and how patriarchal norms amplify gender inequities. Administrative strategies are proposed, including delayed committee appointments, targeted …

Strategies For Recruiting Women And Minority Faculty In Communication, John J. Makav

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article critiques passive affirmative action rhetoric and outlines a systematic recruitment program for diversifying communication faculties. Drawing on narrative evidence from multiple universities, it identifies structural barriers including limited doctoral pipelines, evaluative bias, and salary disparities that constrain minority and women hiring. The discussion advances eight recruitment strategies: forming cross level search teams, adopting flexible credential criteria, cultivating doctoral networks, advertising in targeted outlets, broadening evaluation beyond publications, promoting cultural inclusivity, budgeting competitive packages, and clarifying attainable tenure pathways. Emphasis is placed on institutional commitment, proactive attitude, and sustained innovation as levers for equity, organizational resilience, and academic excellence. …

A Woman Administrator: To Be Or Not To Be, Carole S. Coartney

Masters Theses

Every individual who is choosing a career or is contemplating a career change should research the field before making a final decision. This is especially consequential when considering an atypical occupation. A female educational administrator falls into this category. Since the majority of educational leaders are male, a woman administrator can expect to face many challenges associated with her gender.

The major purpose of this field experience was to gather information pertinent to a woman considering a career in educational administration. The specific objectives were five-fold: 1. To obtain a profile of the women administrators in downstate Illinois (south of …

The Development, Implementation, And Evaluation Of A Junior High School Study Skills Program For A Small Rural School, Donald Lawrence Burton Ii

Masters Theses

The purpose of this field experience project was to develop a junior high school study skills program for a small rural school. Upon completion of its development, the study skills program was pilot-tested in the Tower Hill Junior High School in Tower Hill, Illinois. After the background and possible significance of this field study is discussed, specific project objectives and research hypotheses are listed along with the appropriate operational definitions, assumptions and delimitations for this field experience. A representative review of the literature and research is given on the subject of study skills and study skills programs. Field experience activities …

Characteristics Of The Pre-College Students At Parkland College, Leslie E. Marsh

Masters Theses

Parkland College is a community college of approximately 8,000 students located in Champaign, Illinois. The faculty and administrative staff is concerned with student retention, particularly the retention of those students in the pre-college or underprepared category who take courses that are below the college level. This retention study identified characteristics of underprepared students, interventions that had been successful at model community colleges, and recommended program implications for the future.

The study provided base-line data regarding characteristics of the 1346 underprepared students at Parkland College who were taking remedial coursework in the fall of 1988. Data was also gathered for the …

Principal And Teacher Views On Cooperative Action In The Administration Of Iowa's Secondary Schools, Stephen R. Nicholson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which Iowa secondary school principals and teacher building representatives support a model for cooperative action in the administration of the state's secondary schools. In addition differences in the perceptions of those principals and teachers are examined and the extent to which practices in the schools reflect cooperative practices is determined.

The population for the study included all secondary teachers in Iowa identified by their local education associations as the building representative and the principals of the schools where the building representatives were employed. Data were gathered using a survey …

The Effects Of A Program To Develop Collaboration On Teacher Interactions And Norms Of Collegiality Within The School As A Workplace, Michael E. Sicignano

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Management

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of the Effective Teaching Network (ETN), a program designed to develop collaboration among teachers. This study employs the pretest/posttest nonequivalent comparison group design. The treatment group (n = 75) represents an intact group of teachers who participated in the ETN pilot program. Thirty teachers participated in the direct level of treatment, and 40 teachers participated in the indirect level of treatment. The comparison group (n = 77) represents an intact group of teachers who were matched with the treatment group on teacher characteristics and pretest scores. The Professional Collegiality Questionnaire …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding minimum wage, grade submission, graduate faculty, telephone lines, university car returns, fellowships and extended campus.

1989 December 18 - Staff Senate Minutes, Staff Senate, East Tennessee State University

Staff Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ua1b3 Report To The President, Wku Health & Safety Committee

WKU Administration Documents

Report regarding AIDS and HIV policies for WKU.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting December 15, 1989, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Recommendation re Honorary Degrees
• Naming of Business Building Courtyard
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• Tax-Free Borrowing Resolution
• Grand Rapids Regional Center Building Contract
• Remarks by the Provost
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Ua66/14/3 Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Pinning ceremony program listing graduates of the WKU Nursing program.

News & Views - Vol. 08, No. 06 - December 13, 1989, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.

1989 December 11 - Staff Senate Minutes, Staff Senate, East Tennessee State University

Staff Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss athletic budget, TIAA/CREF retirement plant, academic probation, faculty morale, health insurance and student housing.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 29, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Green, Travis. Students to Rally Against Housing – Housing & Residence Life
• Summers, Kaye. Arguing Addictive for Top Debaters – Forensics Team
• Summers, Kaye. Curing Tate Page Hall’s Ailments Would Cost $1 Million
• Lawson, Jamie. Black Students to Air Concerns
• Tsimekles, Dean. Education College Dean Leaves Western – J.T. Sandefur, Education & Behavioral Sciences
• Tenure Appeal Hearing for Teacher Postponed – Gabe Buntzman
• Study Facility Available Next Week in University Center
• Students for Choice to March at Rally in Frankfort – Demonstrations
• Lockert, Anya. Money …

Ua12/2/1 Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Stevenson, Cindy. Students in Foreign Lands Can Beat Loneliness
• Bricking, Tanya. How a Deaf Student Handles Classes and Life on the Hill – James Kemp
• Schlagenhauf, Ann. Firemen Wait to Fight an Elusive Enemy

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Kinslow, Gina. Rooms Assigned Randomly in Fall – Housing & Residence Life
• Kinslow, Gina. Agreements List New Housing Deposit Rules
• Houchens, Gary. Cystic Fibrosis Patient Looking at an Entire Lifetime – Todd Gibbs
• Howard, Laura. Western Gets Help to Buy Center – Institute for Economic Development
• Student Body Presidents Discuss Tuition
• Carter, Julie. Root of Procrastination is Fear
• Housing Lottery Will Ease Campus Crowding
• Chattin, John. Editorial Cartoon Housing & Residence Life Scratch Off Lottery TIcket
• Murphy, Christy. Moving Deadline Desired
• Cecil, Kevin. Housing Rule …