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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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: …

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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 …

Affirmative Action In Academe: Increase Opportunities, Remove Barriers, And Change Attitudes, Susan A. Siltanen

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article addressed affirmative action in academe by examining the judicial justification for the policy and the 1973 and 1983 American Association of University Professor (AAUP) recommendations. Those reviews indicated that the Supreme Court supported affirmative action using distributive justice principles. Moreover, the AAUP recommendations are also based on distributive justice principles. In the 1973 report, the AAUP called mostly for increased opportunities for women and minorities to enter the academy. In its 1983 report, the AAUP reiterated the need to alter the workplace to include more women and minorities and added a call for to remove barriers to tenure …

Disciplinary Narratives For Change: The Emergence Of Performance Studies Within Athe And Sca, Ronald E. Shields

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the emergence of performance studies within the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Speech Communication Association (SCA). During recent years, the debate surrounding the emergence of performance studies within the professional organizations, SCA and ATHE, has generated both heat and light. Both debates centered on pragmatic and seminal questions of disciplinary cohesiveness and relevancy; each side in both debates also argued their respective positions from particular interpretations of disciplinary history. In SCA, the issue involved a name change within a large and respected Division: in ATHE, the entire membership was challenged to consider the …

Administrators At Risk: Tools And Technologies For Securing Your Future, James A. Stakenas

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Review of the book, McKenzie, J. (1993). Administrators at Risk: Tools and Technologies for Securing Your Future. Bloomington, Indiana: National Education Service.

Practical Strategies For Enhancing Ethnic Diversity Within Communication Programs: A Symposium Overview, Robert M. Smith

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Introduction to a series of articles on race and ethnicity in U.S. higher education.

Censorship Problems In Commercial And Collegiate Theatre, Joe Filippo

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses censorship problems in commercial and collegiate theatre. An examination of censorship in the American theatre will reveal the fact that the subject has been weighed and viewed by the court from a number of perspectives. One such view was that, until the mid-twentieth century, court cases commonly were decided on the basis of the literary merit of the plays in question. The foregoing questions relating to a theatre season may lead one to conclude that there is no censorship quite like self-censorship. If it is perceived that in the process of play selection there is excessive risk …

A Burkean Analysis Of The Rhetoric Of Sexual Harassment: An Examination Of The Polarization Of Attitudes Related To Consensual Relationships On Campus, Loretta Lovelace Wiman

Masters Theses

A history of sexual harassment traces the recognition and development of the issue as a social problem in the workplace and on college campuses. A review of research literature reveals both percentages of students involved and the effects on those students of academic or teacher/student sexual harassment. A brief overview of institutional policy statements shows that some colleges/universities have responded to the issue with a ban on all consensual amorous relationships between teachers and students; some ban such relationships only when a supervisory relationship also exists, and some do neither. Some policies include sanctions on those who violate bans; others …

Flexibility Makes The Difference In Mentoring Women For Academic Success, Kathryn S. Egan

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines the significance of mentoring for women's success in achieving tenure and promotion. The successful tenured female college faculty member in communications, at some point in her career, has been helped by a mentor, usually male. Mentoring is vital for both men and women for faculty success, but women are restricted in forming mentoring relationships. Two categories of women as knowers exist in academe: constructivists and proceduralists. The constructivist views all knowledge as contextual, while the proceduralist woman is invested in learning and applying objective procedures for obtaining knowledge. The functions of mentoring are defined as those aspects …

Oral English Proficiency Requirements For Itas In U. S. Colleges And Universities: An Issue In Speech Communication, Robert C. Dick, Brenda M. Robinson

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article explores the nature and extent of oral English proficiency training that international teaching assistants (ITA) need for their faculty and staff roles in U.S. colleges and universities. In surveys of campuses in the Illinois system, the most frequent single complaint among undergraduates was that the ITA had language problems which interfered with the students' comprehension of classroom material. The Test of English As a Foreign Language (TOEFL) has been in existence since 1964, assessing the English usage of English-as-a-second-language students applying for admission to colleges and universities. The Test of Spoken Language, designed by the Educational Testing Service, …

Safe Places, Fair Practices, Trust: Sexual Harassment In Communication And Theatre, Robert J. Wills

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the role of school administrators in addressing sexual harassment in theater and communication programs. On college and university campuses, by and large, men have power. Women on campus by and large trust these men who have power. The trust in such a relationship is precious, built over time through consistency, responsiveness and mutual concerns. Sexual harassment breaks that trust, destroys it completely, and in the process wounds those who are involved. The 9 to 5 organization has concluded that a strong policy is the best way to combat sexual harassment. A written policy easily becomes both the …

Communication Education Transformations: Implications For Curricular Change, Chris R. Sawyer, Phyllis Miller, Ralph R. Behnke

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article explores the implications of communication education transformations for curricular change in the U.S. Differences in education and training between public relations (PR) practitioners and journalists reflect, in part, effects of certain pressures brought to bear upon these professions. Any edge which graduates may have in the marketplace will depend on the extent to which their communication programs have focused on initial detection and measurement of related talents, skill development and enhancement, and discovery of communication-related careers that depend on the integration and application of these skills. With respect to faculty placement, infusing PR faculty into existing communication programs …

Encouraging Undergraduate Scholarship: Institutional Strategies, Kevin L. Hutchinson

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article explores the various institutional strategies for encouraging undergraduate scholarship in the U.S. The student faculty grants, research stipends and scholarships require that the institution commit financial resources or commit resources to secure financial support from one or more outside agencies through creative grant writing. Suggestions pertaining to Lambda Pi Eta and internal internships probably require the least amount of institutional support. There are two proposed conditions for the research teams concept to be successful. First, there must be a commitment by all faculty to engage in research. Second, the faculty research interest must lend itself to collaborative research.

Alternative Career Opportunities, Or, Don't Sell Yourself Short!, David Balthrop

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article will attempt to discuss who is making an attempt to prepare their students for work outside of the field of study; pose the question of whose responsibility is it for preparing those students: faculty, universities and colleges, or the students themselves. In a survey sent out to all colleges and universities in Kentucky, only a small percentage (fewer than 3%) of the surveys returned acknowledged any help in the form of organized, structured post-graduation job opportunity discussions. All the forms returned indicated that the students wanted and needed that type of instruction. In order to locate other job …

Successful Recruitment Of Minority Faculty: Commitment, Culture, Choice, Robert M. Smith

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article offers suggestions that help committed and concerned faculty and administration successfully recruit faculty of color to their departments. Commitment is hard work. Race is an issue on every campus to some degree and becoming a growing problem on most. There is no magical solution, no multicultural inoculation, nor mass confessional purge of imbedded feelings, beliefs, and superstitions. Changing racial prejudice or predispositions among people is hard work. Climate is the accumulation of the attitudes and behaviors toward inclusion on campus. Everyone on campus is both a contributor and product of the climate. Other approaches to shape the climate …

To Be Young, Gifted, And Out Of Work, Mark Malinauskas

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses job search strategy. Devising a job hunting strategy may be the hardest work you do in your entire career. The most immediate task is the creation of a personal inventory. You should be honest and identify your real strengths. These will be incorporated into your resume when you are ready to construct it. The attributes most employers seek to identify in applicants are the following: (1) A burning desire to learn and grow; (2) A brute determination to succeed; (3) A natural ability to get along with people; (4) Talent for persuading others; (5) An affinity for …

Expanding The Knowledge Base: Reconsidering The Communication Literature, Alberto Gonzalez, Huang Shaorong

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article presents a bibliography of books on cultural and intercultural communication.

Determining Reasonable Accommodations For The Learning Impaired: New Issues For Able-Bodied Communication Administrators, Craig Newburger

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses issues surrounding able-bodied communication administrators. The first issue confronting communication educators involves the nature of interactions with disabled students. Such students may be reluctant to disclose their personal circumstances to their instructors, even when a campus student counseling services office arms them with explanatory documents intended to affirm their sincerity and disarm the potential for them to feel embarrassed. Some learning impaired students have been isolated, misunderstood, and stigmatized, thus, the simplest act of communicating may become fraught with anxiety. The second issue confronting communication educators involves how sensitive we are to the broad nature of what …

Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 12 - December 17, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the December 16, 1993 meeting.

Correspondence - Resolution 93-18-F, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Letters to Katherine Tolbert, Dave Parrott, John Osborne and Ann Stathos from the SGA Executive Council regarding housing for students during holidays.

Correspondence - Resolution 93-20-F, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Letters to Cecile Garmon, Amos Gott and Debbie Cherwak in favor of the Health & Activity Fee.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Broadbent, Stephanie. Sink Accident Leaves Students in Hot Water – Keen Hall, Alcohol
• Tungate, Matthew. Workers Pushing for Regent Position
• Good, Epha. Higher Education: Other States Cutting Back, Too – Higher Education Review Commission
• Parking Ticket Leads to Arrest – LeMichael Finney
• Christmas Lecture on Star Planned – Hardin Planetarium
• Santa Claus Could Use These Ideas
• Editorial Cartoon Santa Claus’ Gifts for WKU
• People Poll: What Would Be the Perfect Christmas Gift for You This Year?
• Bunnell, David. For One Woman, Pain Began After Abortion …

Ua1b3/6 Meeting Minutes, Wku Parking & Traffic Committee

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Parking & Traffic Committee meeting minutes with attachments.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 3, No. 17, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Dr. Frank Conley
• Celebrating Tchaikovsky with Winter Reveries - Bowling Green Western Symphony
• Dedicated to Sunny Memories - Cherry Sundial
• Helping the Elderly Maintain Quality - Center for Research on Applied Gerontology
• Skipper, Bob. Perspective on National Health Care and Kentucky
• Warmth, Women and the Children - WKU Campus Child Care

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss buy-a-book service, child care, Student Athletic Club, committee assignments and budget.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Broadbent, Stephanie. Housing Intercepts Football Players’ Vandalism – Keen Hall, Housing & Residence Life
• Tungate, Matthew. Money: Standards for School Funding Set
• Ang, Dawn. A Witness to the World – Ruth Hand, Wesley Chapel, Religion
• Post Office Gets Extended Hours
• Instructor Who Was Willing to Give So Much for So Little Dies at Age 47 – Terry Jones
• Students Don’t Deserve Hassle – Housing & Residence Life
• Student Government Association Has Lost Its Priorities
• Editorial Cartoon WKU Dorm Life, We’re Not Responsible For . . …

Correspondence Resolution 93-15-F, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Memos to Bob Wiltshire and Kemble Johnson from the SGA Executive Council regarding installation of a public telephone in Cherry Hall.

Correspondence Resolution 93-11-F, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Letters to Dero Downing and Dennis Smith from the SGA Executive Council regarding expansion of minority scholarships.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Broadbent, Stephanie. Residents Say Resident Assistants’ Mistakes Spoiled the Day – Housing & Residence Life
• Daniels, Jerry. Students Celebrate African Holiday – Kwanzaa
• Tungate, Matthew. Money Madness: Graduation Rates Could Affect Universities’ State Funding – Budget, Higher Education Review Commission
• Root, Tonya. Brady Bill May Be Hard to Enforce, Some Officials Say – Gun Control
• Former Business Professor Dies – Richard Taylor
• 3 Arrested for Having Stolen Goods – Barry Stephens, Sean Smith, April Depper
• Professor to Serve on Council – Camilla Collins, Accreditation
• Ray …