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Dancing With Your Dean: When To Lead And When To Follow, Daniel Fallon

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article explores the relationship between theatre department chairs and deans, emphasizing how the unique skills developed in theatre practice translate into valuable administrative qualities. The discussion highlights practical management abilities required to plan and execute production seasons, as well as conflict resolution skills for working with artists. Additional qualities include willingness to take risks, fundraising experience, and theatrical traits such as timing, humor, and perspective that can ease administrative tensions. Theatre chairs are portrayed as capable of providing strategic counsel to deans on curricular and budgetary initiatives, while also offering symbolic resources through box office revenue and the public …

An Investigation Of The Quantity Of Articles Produced In The Communication Discipline: An Institutional Analysis On The Basis Of Highest Degree Conferred, Larry L. Barker, Vernon O. Ray, Kittie W. Watson, Robert N. Hall

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article extends prior research on institutional publication productivity in the communication discipline by analyzing article output between 1980 and 1985 according to the highest degree offered by institutions. Data were collected from ten major journals, with credit assigned proportionally for multi-authored works. Results identify the most productive institutions at the doctoral, master’s, and non-graduate levels, showing that while doctoral-granting institutions produced the greatest volume, significant contributions also came from master’s programs and institutions without graduate degrees. The analysis provides comparative rankings of institutions, highlights differences in productivity across categories, and notes limitations such as the inability to assess publication …

Communication In The Socialization Of The Academic Department Chairperson, Christopher H. Spicer, Ann Q. Staton-Spicer

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines the role of communication in the socialization of new academic department chairs. While most chairs are appointed with little or no administrative training, they must quickly adapt to complex responsibilities involving leadership without extensive authority. Using intensive interviews with four newly appointed chairs, the study identifies a typology of twenty-one communication dimensions across four functional categories: informative, integrative, regulative, and innovative. These include activities such as information seeking and giving, relationship building, exercising authority, and initiating change. Findings show that communication is central to role-making as chairs negotiate expectations, establish credibility, and adapt prior faculty experience to …

Mccarthyism Here We Come Again, Paul Antonie Distler

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article analyzes the origins, goals, and strategies of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a conservative organization that emerged in the mid-1980s as an outgrowth of Accuracy in Media. AIA claims to promote accuracy in higher education but has pursued tactics such as encouraging students to report on faculty, publishing alleged errors, and recruiting volunteers to monitor classes. The discussion highlights how these efforts, framed as correcting bias, often targeted liberal faculty and created controversy by pressuring universities through media exposure and alumni concerns. A case study involving Virginia Tech illustrates how AIA campaigns, though unsuccessful in altering teaching practices, generated …

Coding With Duplicate Program Reviews: An Administrator's Guide, Corwin P. King

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article recounts the experience of a speech communication program undergoing a duplication review by the State of Washington’s Council for Postsecondary Education. The review, aimed at identifying potentially unnecessary programs, required institutions to provide extensive data on need, demand, quality, and productivity. The program at Central Washington University, judged vulnerable due to low enrollments and degree conferrals, was recommended for termination despite evidence of quality and relevance. After appeals and hearings, the university trustees deferred closure and eventually voted to continue the program, aided by changes in state oversight agencies. The discussion provides guidance for administrators facing similar reviews, …

A University Program For Speaking And Listening Across Disciplines, Robert O. Weiss

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article describes the development and implementation of an oral communication competency program at DePauw University. Initiated in response to a university-wide decision to strengthen basic skills, the program established a graduation requirement that students demonstrate speaking and listening proficiency through designated “S Courses” or approved alternatives. The design included faculty training workshops, systematic student assessment, and the creation of a Speaking and Listening Center. Faculty across disciplines integrated oral communication into advanced courses, allowing students to demonstrate competencies such as audience adaptation, critical listening, and effective delivery. Additional provisions included early evaluation of freshmen, counseling, and developmental opportunities for …

Aca News

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This issue reports on the April 1988 Executive Committee meeting in Las Vegas, where members approved initiatives including a proposal to change the organization’s name to the International Association for Communication Administrators, development of cooperative projects with allied associations, and plans for new editions of the Directory of Communication Media in Higher Education. Additional actions included acceptance of a budget for 1988–89, approval of policies on tenure and promotion guidelines, and preparation of new publications such as the Handbook for Theatre Department Chairs. The report also outlines convention programming for the upcoming New Orleans meeting, highlights joint sessions with the …

The Administrative Waltz: Dance Lessons For Deans And Department Heads, Robert G. Everding

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article uses the metaphor of a dance to explore the relationship between deans and department heads in higher education. It emphasizes that effective administration requires cooperation, trust, and recognition of shared responsibilities, with each partner adapting to the other’s style while following the broader rhythm of institutional goals. Practical advice is offered for department heads, including the importance of keeping deans informed, respecting their leadership style, and avoiding unnecessary conflict. Deans are urged to establish clear goals, communicate transparently about resources, and foster an environment of support and accountability. The discussion critiques the increasing trend toward corporate models of …

Different Strokes, Clarence W. Bahs

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines the debates surrounding promotion, tenure, and merit decisions in higher education, emphasizing their emotional and professional impact on faculty and administrators. It argues that while teaching, research, and service remain the universal standards, their application varies widely across institutions and disciplines. Using the example of a theatre and dance program, the discussion highlights how criteria are adapted to reflect program needs, such as valuing creative contributions in production alongside research and teaching. It also underscores the importance of collaboration, community service, and the recognition of program uniqueness. The article concludes that academic evaluations should account for institutional …

Truth In The Classroom, Bob Yowell

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article discusses the activities of Accuracy in Academia and offers practical suggestions for protecting faculty from challenges to classroom teaching. The group monitors lectures and textbooks for perceived liberal bias and has pursued lawsuits against professors, raising concerns about academic freedom. The discussion emphasizes precautionary measures such as focusing lectures on subject material, avoiding unsupported personal opinions, prohibiting unauthorized recordings, and limiting classroom access to enrolled students. Additional strategies include maintaining detailed syllabi, discouraging disruptive students, and documenting classroom activities for protection. Faculty are advised to notify department chairs and legal offices if targeted, ensuring institutional awareness and support. …

Evaluating Faculty For Promotion And Tenure, James Roever

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews the book "Evaluating Faculty for Promotion and Tenure," (1987) by Richard I. Miller. Published by Jossey-Bass.

Fostering Minority Access And Achievement In Higher Education, Patti P. Gillespie

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews the book "Fostering Minority Access and Achievement in Higher Education," (1987) by Richard C. Richardson Jr. and Louis W. Bender. Published by Jossey-Bass.

Newsletter: Network News, Jacksonville Women's Network

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

A newsletter for Jacksonville Women’s Network with information on the JWN board, members and events. Date: August, 1988

Phonological Processes And Syllable Structure In Tainae, Terry Bruce Carlson

Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this thesis is to present the phonological processes generating surface forms from underlying segments in Tainae, a Non-Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea.

All phonetically occurring segments in the language are examined in varying environments, e.g., in word-initial position, word-medial position, and word-final position. Chapter Two, Consonants in Tainae, concentrates on the consonants on the language, separating them into classes such as bilabial stops, alveolar stops, velar stops, fricatives, etc. Within each of these classes the various consonants which appear on the surface are compared with one another in scope of distribution and regarding which possible phonological …

The Effectiveness Of Feedback Procedures On Machine Set-Up Time In A Manufacturing Setting, Connie J. Wittkopp

Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment package designed to improve and maintain set-up time in the extrusion department of a rubber manufacturing company. Subjects were exposed to various behavioral techniques including training and a feedback system in the form of both written and verbal supervisory comments with an emphasis placed on improving performance through use of videotaping. An attempt was made to maintain treatment gains by teaching supervisors how to give information concerning set-up performance to their employees. Results indicate that average weekly set-up times for each machine were significantly below baseline …

Recidivism After Youth Imprisonment In Relationship To Criminal Career: A Twenty Year Follow Up Study, Helmut F. Janssen

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of early biographical factors on the future development of the juveniles and focusses on recidivism and factors influencing the development of a criminal "career." It includes a twenty year follow-up period, studying 500 juveniles released from two juvenile prisons of West Germany in 1961.

From a data set originally created in 1966, which included 290 variables, 29 variables, including individual and social characteristics as well as variables dealing with prior experiences with sanctioning, were ultimately used for this study. In addition, some new variables were created from the variables of …

Choice Responding In Pigeons Exposed To Sequences Of Fixed-Ratio Schedules: Effects Of Multiple Components, Susan Goeters

Masters Theses

The present study used a discrete-trials procedure to examine choice in pigeons presented with two- to five-component sequences of fixed-ratio schedules of reinforcement. Results of the first phase indicate that the majority of choice responses were allocated to the schedule containing the shorter initial fixed-ratio component regardless of the number of components assayed. These findings support the notion that temporally prior reinforcers minimize the effects of subsequent reinforcers and overall response requirements. Phase two findings indicate, however, that under some conditions, fixed-ratios other than the first, lawfully, although weakly, influence choice.

An Analysis Of Four Empathy Variables As Predictors Of Marital Satisfaction, Teck Seong Chee

Masters Theses

The objective of this study was to determine if empathy was predictive of marital satisfaction, and which, if any, of the four empathy variables from Davis' Interpersonal Reactivity Index (1980), would serve as predictors of marital satisfaction. Correlation and regression analyses were used to evaluate the relationships of fantasy, empathic concern, perspective taking and personal distress with marital satisfaction. Variables of secondary interest included those of sex. birth order, length of marriage and age married. Both Individuals and couples were used as units of analysis.

Empathic concern and perspective taking were found to be predictors of marital satisfaction. No significant …

The Octofoil, August/September/October 1988, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

In This Issue, Paul Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Press Conference - Christians, Vladimir Shibaev Et Al.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Religion And Perestroika In The Ussr, Aleksandr Ogorodnikov

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Christian-Marxist Dialogue In Budapest, G Clarke Chapman

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

1988 August, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for August of 1988.

Studying Situations And Identities Using Experiential Sampling Methodology, Peter J. Burke, Stephen L. Franzoi

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

This paper explores a central question in social psychology: How are particular meanings of particular identities selected in a situation? This question was examined in a field setting, using experiential sampling techniques in which participants carried an electronic timer for two days as they engaged in their normal activities on a college campus. When the timer signalled them, participants responded to a questionnaire concerning who they were with, what they were doing, what identities and roles they were involved in at the time, and what their perceptions were of the situation. From the work of Burke and Reitzes, which postulates …

A Review Of Surveys Of Professional Practice In Psychology Since 1961: Trends And Future Challenges, Geoffrey E. Buck

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Psychology has enjoyed tremendous growth and increasing professionalization in the years following WWII, with the major thrust of this growth being in professional practice. This period has also witnessed a rapid transformation in the educational and sociopolitical underpinnings of professional training and practice. Many authors have studied the growth of practice by periodically surveying practitioners and commenting on a wide variety of demographic, professional and practice-related characteristics. This paper reviews these surveys, noting trends in the characteristics of the human resource pool and the factors both within and external to the profession that have contributed to the shape of those …

Ua11/2 Press Release - Four Finalists In Search For Wku's Eighth President, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Press release regarding four finalists in WKU presidential search. They were Thomas Bond, Martha Layne Collins, George Frederickson and Thomas Meredith.

Letter To Diana Osbaldiston Regarding Aall Reimbursement, July 28, 1988, Hazel Johnson

Correspondence

A letter from Hazel Johnson to Diana Osbaldiston asking Osbaldiston to send a reimbursement payment to AALL to cover charges from the SEAALL breakfast meeting.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 20 No. 71, July 27, 1988

Central Florida Future

Local health club closes; Magazine writing offered; UCF administration tackles costly asbestos problem.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding photocopying, teaching evaluation, retreat, student information system, Junior Black Faculty Educational Program, affirmative action, academic advising and summer school.