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

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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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Tender Offer Outcome Prediction Based Upon Efficient Market Hypothesis, James I. Montgomery Jan 1995

Tender Offer Outcome Prediction Based Upon Efficient Market Hypothesis, James I. Montgomery

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

A significant portion of firms' capital expenditures in the recent past have been accomplished through the acquisition of the assets of other firms by tender offers. While the majority of tender offers are successful, a significant number of tender offers fail for various reasons. The accurate prediction of the success or failure of a tender offer would provide investors with valuable information upon which to base their investment decisions. The target firm shareholders could use the information as a base for their tendering decision. For the abitrageur, a predictive model would reduce the uncertainty associated with their investment activity and, …

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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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

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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Reexamining Argumentativeness And Resistance To Persuasion, Matina Suzanne Vourvopoulos Jan 1995

Reexamining Argumentativeness And Resistance To Persuasion, Matina Suzanne Vourvopoulos

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

A recently developed receiver characteristic, argumentativeness, was examined for its relations to attitude change and information processing in persuasive communication. Generally thought to be a flowed personality trait, argumentativeness is currently being regarded in communication studies as a beneficial personality trait that correlates with other qualities such as high grade point average, dynamism in speech, achievement orientation, competitiveness and leadership behavior. This study examined the effect of argumentativeness on persuasion. It was predicted that high argumentative would be more resistant to persuasion, yet the findings show that, with a strong message, high argumentative are more likely to be persuaded by …

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Orlando Gets Hockey But Not Nhl Hockey, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 1994

Orlando Gets Hockey But Not Nhl Hockey, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

When the announcement came a little over a week ago The Orlando Sentinel fell over itself like the lapdog it has become for the Orlando Magic and the DeVoss family. It was of course the major news that Orlando was about to get a hockey team in the International Hockey League, and the city was about to facilitate the process with another sweetheart contract with the family DeVoss for use of the O-Arena.

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Christmas Gift List For Sports Celebrities, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 1994

Christmas Gift List For Sports Celebrities, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

With Christmas just a few days away it's time to put together a Christmas gift list for the wonderful people of sportsworld who seemingly have everything.

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Sports Coffee Table Books For Christmas, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 1994

Sports Coffee Table Books For Christmas, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is Christmas time and this year I want to recommend four major photo and essay collections on sport that have been published in the last two years, each of which would make a very special Christmas gift. Prices range from $25 to $75 varying by book and place of purchase.

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Major League Baseball: Orlando's Bid, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 1994

Major League Baseball: Orlando's Bid, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The City of Orlando and designated majority owner Norton Herrick are scheduled to make their presentation of Orlando's case for major league baseball on Wednesday of next week. So it might be a good time to make an assessment of Orlando's chances for getting a team.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 30, December 6, 1994 Dec 1994

Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 30, December 6, 1994

Central Florida Future

Education proposal could change the course of American history; Outdoor art class (photo); UCF library receives $10,000 grant (with photo); Grad learns pitfalls of employment services; Inside: A very special Axis Xmas edition; Opinion: What if athletics were mandatory?; Sports: UCF Volleyball team doesn't last long in NCAA Tourney.

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Monday Night Football's 25th Anniversary, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 1994

Monday Night Football's 25th Anniversary, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Monday Night Football. The other networks laughed when ABC announced it was going to take NFL football into prime time. Who would watch? By Monday everyone was suffering from football burnout what with the College games on Saturday, and the double network double headers on Sunday. It just wouldn't work.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 29, December 1, 1994 Dec 1994

Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 29, December 1, 1994

Central Florida Future

Wake of Proposition 187 could wash up on Florida's shores; Publisher takes news on the information superhighway.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 28, November 29, 1994 Nov 1994

Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 28, November 29, 1994

Central Florida Future

UCF men's basketball plunges into new season; UCF student opens unique clothing store downtown.

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Thanksgiving-Day Football, Richard C. Crepeau Nov 1994

Thanksgiving-Day Football, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The History of Thanksgiving and of Football both go back into the Middle Ages, and so it may not be so strange that the two would become intertwined in modern America.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 27, November 22, 1994 Nov 1994

Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 27, November 22, 1994

Central Florida Future

UCF helps budding inventors: The UCF Division of Sponsored Research starts inventors on their way to patents; Gordon's wake devastates Florida's winter harvest.

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Thanksgiving And Football, Richard C. Crepeau Nov 1994

Thanksgiving And Football, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The History of Thanksgiving and of Football both go back into the Middle Ages, and so it may not be so strange that the two would become intertwined in modern America.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 26, November 17, 1994 Nov 1994

Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 26, November 17, 1994

Central Florida Future

Zoot graffiti spreads across UCF campus; Unique interactive BE2000 class puts UCF in the national spotlight; UCF physics professor receives NSF award.

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The Baseball Strike And The Issues, Richard C. Crepeau Nov 1994

The Baseball Strike And The Issues, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

How long has it been now? Two months. Three months. Does anyone remember exactly when the baseball strike began? For the record it was August 12, 1994, some three months and a week ago. Then in early September came word that the season was gone, and the playoffs and World Series were down the drain.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 25, November 15, 1994 Nov 1994

Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 25, November 15, 1994

Central Florida Future

Religious conservatives marshal forces to overthrow Democrats: The resurgence of family values and the separation of church and state mobilize conservatives into regaining control of Congress; Atlantis' sonic booms nimble at Edwards AFB; Fraternity turns cow poo into cash.

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