From The Faculty Senate President’S Perspective,
2012
University of Alabama-Birmingham
From The Faculty Senate President’S Perspective, Mark Hickson Iii
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
No abstract provided.
Measuring Classroom Engagement By Comparing Instructor Expectations With Students’ Perceptions,
2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Measuring Classroom Engagement By Comparing Instructor Expectations With Students’ Perceptions, Paul Savory, Amy Goodburn, Jody Koenig Kellas
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
Even instructors who can demonstrate student success in their courses can be challenged to document which practices are most effective in engaging student learning. National surveys designed to assess student engagement do not provide individual faculty with information that can help them assess their individual teaching efforts. This paper highlights a survey designed to help individual faculty members learn about their students and provides a comparison of instructors’ expectations with students’ perceptions. This paper illustrates the value of such a survey through an extended example of the insights that an instructor gained by using it in her course.
Genesis In Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy At The Creation Museum,
2012
Butler University
Genesis In Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy At The Creation Museum, Casey Ryan Kelly, Kristen E. Hoerl
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
This essay analyzes the argumentative structure of the “Answers in Genesis” ministry’s Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Founded by a $27 million grant, the 70,000-square-foot museum appropriates the stylistic and authoritative signifiers of natural history museums, complete with technically proficient hyperreal displays and modern curatorial techniques. In this essay, we argue that the museum provides a culturally authoritative space in which Young Earth Creationists can visually craft the appearance that there is an ongoing scientific controversy over matters long settled in the scientific community (evolution), or what scholars call a disingenuous or manufactured controversy. We analyze the displays and layout …
An Examination Of Privacy Rules
For Academic Advisors And College
Student-Athletes: A Communication
Privacy Management Perspective,
2012
Brooklyn College–City University of New York
An Examination Of Privacy Rules For Academic Advisors And College Student-Athletes: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective, Jason Thompson, Sandra Petronio, Dawn O. Braithwaite
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
This study explored how academic advisors managed revealed private information from college student-athletes. The 37 academic advisors were interviewed to address: What criteria advisors use to judge privacy rules regulating access or protection of shared private information from student-athletes, and how privacy-rule choices function in this context? Academic advisors interviewed represented 21 different institutions of the four NCAA division levels and 10 separate athletic conferences. Using Communication Privacy Management theory as a framework, findings indicated there were two main criteria: motivations and risk-benefit ratios used to develop privacy rules managing revealing and concealing the student-athlete’s private information.
Editor’S Note,
2012
University of Miami
Editor’S Note, Don W. Stacks
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 31, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Building Support For The Introductory Oral Communication Course: Strategies For Widespread And Enduring Support On Campus,
2012
University of Dayton
Building Support For The Introductory Oral Communication Course: Strategies For Widespread And Enduring Support On Campus, Jon A. Hess
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
A strong introductory course is important for many communication departments, for the discipline, and for meeting our obligation to society. This paper utilizes the example of a recent curricular reform that threatened to eliminate a required oral communication course to reflect on strategies departments can use to build widespread and lasting support for the course. The paper reviews the events that led to the challenge and details the department’s response, which offers lessons that may be useful for other institutions. Four lessons include: tailoring the introductory course to the institution’s needs and mission, involvement in university work, making compelling use …
Clarifying Communication Competencies Through An Interdisciplinary Approach To Communication Pedagogy,
2012
Pennsylvania State University, DuBois
Clarifying Communication Competencies Through An Interdisciplinary Approach To Communication Pedagogy, Mary Mino
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
The increased focus on assessment has resulted in a greater demand and pressure for communication programs to validate that students have learned and can apply communication competencies. However, for the most part, communication educators have offered no well-defined guidelines or systematic approaches that have been endorsed unequivocally. Although literature has described Relationship Enhancement (RE) as an extremely successful approach for improving oral communication, it has not been studied by the majority of communication educators. Through its nine basic skills, the RE Approach offers specific guidelines that systematically operationalize how to communicate effectively. This essay shares integrative research that develops a …
Forensics As A Correlate Of Graduate School Success,
2012
Miami University
Forensics As A Correlate Of Graduate School Success, Todd T. Holm, Heather J. Carmack
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Forensics is an extremely popular extracurricular activity in the communication discipline and often provides competitors with skills required for success in graduate school. This exploratory study examines the relationships between forensics competition and success in graduate school. Through a survey of 169 graduate students, we compare graduate students with a forensics background (n = 35) and those without a forensics background (n = 134). The study generates several important findings. First, graduate students who competed in forensics report higher levels success in graduate school and are more likely to present conference papers and publish in academic journals. Second, the level …
Administrating Integration: The Principles Of Integrated Communication In The Institutional Setting,
2012
Purdue University
Administrating Integration: The Principles Of Integrated Communication In The Institutional Setting, Brian G. Smith
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
As an emerging paradigm for communication management, integrated communication, also referred to as integrated marketing communication (IMC), poses challenges to communication administration, particularly when institutes of higher learning face a departmentalized context that may impede integration efforts. This article outlines the principles of integrated communication and illustrates them in a university’s integrated communication efforts. Integration may function as an organic process of interpersonal and social connected.
From The Perspective Of A University President,
2012
Clayton State University
From The Perspective Of A University President, Thomas J. Hynes Jr.
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
No abstract provided.
From The Dean's Perspective,
2012
University of Memphis
From The Dean's Perspective, Richard R. Ranta
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
No abstract provided.
Complete Issue, Volume 31, Issue 1,
2012
University of Central Florida
Complete Issue, Volume 31, Issue 1
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the complete issue for Volume 31, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
Editor's Note,
2012
University of Miami
Editor's Note, Don W. Stacks
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 31, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
The Effect Of Recruitment Messages On Undergraduate Beliefs About The Communication Major: A Quasi-Experiment,
2012
Eastern Kentucky University
The Effect Of Recruitment Messages On Undergraduate Beliefs About The Communication Major: A Quasi-Experiment, Eric B. Meiners, Karen L. Rudick
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Despite the importance of attracting talented and qualified undergraduates into the major, the subject of recruitment for communication has received little attention. This study examines the effectiveness of a one-shot informative recruitment message on students’ beliefs and attitudes toward the communication major. As part of a quasi-experiment using a Solomon four-group design, two upper-division majors presented recruitment presentations addressing the benefits of, and misconceptions toward, the major to 130 students enrolled in introductory public speaking classes. Post-tests revealed that students exposed to the message reported significantly more favorable attitudes toward communication than those who had not seen a presentation (n …
A Sense Of Belonging: New Technologies' Effect On Recruitment Practices Of Graduate Programs,
2012
Purdue University
A Sense Of Belonging: New Technologies' Effect On Recruitment Practices Of Graduate Programs, Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, Emily C. Simmons
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
College recruiting has changed drastically as a result of new technology such as interactive Web sites, blogs, social media, and on-line videos. This study surveyed 144 college undergraduates about their attitudes and interests in enrolling in their institution’s graduate program as well as different types of recruitment technology. Video, printed handouts, and Web sites, were explored to assess their effectiveness as recruitment tools and discover how views of effectiveness are constructed. The study found video is perceived as the most interactive and influential recruitment tool and Web sites are the most credible, trustworthy, and user-friendly recruitment tool. This study allowed …
Assessing Organizational Image Through The College Open House: A Tool For Success,
2012
La Salle University
Assessing Organizational Image Through The College Open House: A Tool For Success, Andrea M. Pampaloni, Andrea Vadaro Tucker
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This study evaluates how effective colleges and universities are in presenting an accurate and positive organizational image via their open house events. The Open House Assessment for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) © was developed to determine how institutional characteristics identified by potential members as influential to their decision to affiliate with a school were made relevant through the organizational image presented by the school. Open house events at twenty-four colleges and universities were assessed using the tool. Findings indicate that there are overall modifications to open house events that might benefit all schools, suggesting that the tool can be an …
Adapting Assessment For The Field Of Communication,
2012
University of Michigan-Flint
Adapting Assessment For The Field Of Communication, Marcus Paroske, Sarah Rosaen
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
It has now become a universal mandate that communication programs conduct assessment of whether students attain selected learning outcomes. However, approaches to assessment unique to communication beyond the basic public speaking course are rare in the literature. This paper defends a “meta-assessment” approach to communication assessment as a key to negotiating the unique attributes of the field of communication, especially in heterogeneous academic departments and programs. It further argues that this approach can benefit assessment of similar, interdisciplinary academic programs.
Evaluating Basic Public Speaking Course Student Presentations: Some Assessment Considerations,
2012
Pennsylvania State University DuBois
Evaluating Basic Public Speaking Course Student Presentations: Some Assessment Considerations, Mary Mino
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Evaluating basic course students’ presentational speaking skills accurately and effectively has always been a challenging and vitally important instructional task. Considering the communication discipline’s need to clarify and to improve communication course assessment, this essay compares the effectiveness of four valid presentational speaking forms. In order to explain the need for this comparison, first, the essay emphasizes for basic public speaking course instructors the significance of increasing students’ understanding of communication competence both in theory and practice. Second, the essay supports a rationale for examining the effectiveness of presentational evaluation forms using a comparative analysis as the basis of this …
Best Practices In Faculty Evaluation,
2012
Colorado State University
Best Practices In Faculty Evaluation, Sue Pendell
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
No abstract provided.
Helping Junior Faculty Achieve Success In Promotion And Tenure,
2012
University of Dayton
Helping Junior Faculty Achieve Success In Promotion And Tenure, Jon Hess
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
No abstract provided.
