We had a very successful
conference in Sacramento! My
thanks to everyone who contributed to our conference, especially Local Host
John Williams and his Sacramento area colleagues, Interest Group Program
Planners, Executive Director Connie Conlee, and my assistants Nancy Eckstein
and Paul Turman.
Like many of you, I was inspired
and challenged by our Keynote Speaker Jody Kretzmann of the Asset-Based Community
Development (ABCD) Institute at Northwestern University.
He challenged us to look at the positive resources within communities
and to examine critically just what we in academia believe we have to offer
our communities. Dr. Kretzmann
challenged us to ask and to listen to what community members say, avoiding the
assumption that we know what they need. If
the data Kretzmann reported are correct, our assumptions about what they need
from us are often wrong.
I am looking forward to serving
as your President this year. One of the issues we will be looking at is how
best to disseminate information to the membership via the WWW and the WSCA
newsletter. I certainly welcome
your ideas. You will soon see
some innovations in services, including a new and shorter web address, as well
as online membership and registration and payment options via credit cards.
This will make renewing your membership and registering for conventions
much easier! I want to hear from you if you have concerns about WSCA or ideas
that will make our association better: dbraithwaite@unl.edu
I should tell you that we appear
to be fairly healthy in terms of membership and finances.
That is good news, but we do not maintain health without our collective
efforts. It is important that
each of us continue to support WSCA through our own membership, helping
colleagues and students to become members, and by our individual contributions
to WSCA: our scholarship to conferences and journals, sharing our teaching and
pedagogical insights via conference panels and workshops, supporting WSCA
through attending and participating the annual conference.
We will never be able to remain healthy without successful annual
conferences and active members. President
Elect Sandra Petronio and Local Host Betsy Bach are planning a wonderful
conference for 2001. Please plan
to submit panels, workshops, and your competitive papers and continue to
support WSCA. To me, 2000 looks bright!
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COME
TO COEUR d’ALENE!!!!!
Convention 2001
Sandra
Petronio
WSCA President-Elect
The
2001 WSCA convention will be an exciting experience. The convention theme,
“Translating Our Scholarship into Practice” promises to produce a
number of insightful programs, workshops, and paper presentations. You are
encouraged to be innovative in your approach to submissions for the 2001
convention. The topic has import for teachers, researchers, and practitioners
alike. Please urge your colleagues, students, and friends to use this year’s
convention as a forum to showcase their ideas.
As
in past years, people continue to comment that WSCA is one the most rewarding
conventions people attend. Please spread the word and introduce at least one
new colleague or student to WSCA. Show them the advantages the rest of us have
already discovered. Tell them about the quality of the papers and level of
scholarship they will find, tell them stories about the camaraderie, and tell
them about the commitment to having fun while working hard those who attend
WSCA convention enjoy.
For
the 2001 convention, we have many wonderful things to look forward to and
several challenges. To meet some of the challenges, the President-Elect will
organize panels that address imperative needs for social justice and ways to
encourage diversity among faculty, students, and administrators. Concerning
diversity, we will look outside the academic community and celebrate the
contributions that diversity brings to our culture.
Also
in the works is a plan to dedicate a time and place so that schools may
promote their graduate programs. Dr. Kristin Valentine and Dr. Robert McPhee
have volunteered to organize this new feature for the convention.
We
are working to make each and every person feel welcome to Coeur d’Alene in
2001. As we obtain information about specifics regarding the convention and
convention site, we will make it available to you.
In
the mean time, please plan to submit your scholarship to the 2001 convention
and attend the convention. Local host, Betsy Bach, has many exciting
adventures awaiting us at this site. The room rates are spectacular, there is
inexpensive transportation from Spokane to the hotel, and lots to do once you
get there. We look forward to seeing you!!!!
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New
Master’s Degree Program at
Arizona State University West
The
Department of Communication Studies in the College of Human Services at
Arizona State University West proudly announces the inaugural year of its
Master of Arts program.
The program focuses on advocacy in social and organizational contexts
as a means of preparing students to advocate for groups, communities, issues,
clients, and organizations.
For more information please see our website at
http://www.west.asu.edu/HumanSvcs/cmaster/homepage.html,
or contact Dr. Richard Morris, Director of Graduate Studies, at 602-543-6652.
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Search
for Editor of WSCA News
The
Western States Communication Association is pleased to announce a search for a
new editor for our newsletter and our web page.
The Editor of the WSCA News also maintains our website and aids
in the dissemination of public information concerning the association.
This enlarged responsibility for the Editor is part of an effort to
consolidate public relations under one person in the association.
Interested candidates are invited to visit the Association's website
and talk with Professor John Cagle, the current editor.
Candidates should be available for informal interview sessions with
members of the Publication Committee during the 2001 Convention in Coeur
D'Alene, where the final selection will be made. Candidates
should send a letter of application and resumé to Craig Smith, Chair,
Publications Committee, Communication Studies Department, California State
University, MHB 717, Long Beach, CA
90840-2407.
The letter of application should address how much departmental and/or
university support the candidate will receive; it should also address any
experience or expertise the candidate possesses in newsletter writing, public
relations, and web site operations.
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2000
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD SPEECH
HONORING
JODY NYQUIST
at
FEBRUARY 2000, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA
Paul
A. Mongeau
Miami University
I
am pleased to be here today to be able to present this award.
First, I would like to thank my fellow committee members for their
work: David Natharius (last year’s award winner by the way) and Peter
Andersen.
Second,
I would like to recognize the members of the audience and those on the podium
who have received this award in the past.
I was wondering if you could stand and receive our acknowledgement one
more time.
Looking
at our award winner’s vita made me feel positively lazy.
This year’s Distinguished Service Award winner has served WSCA on
the:
Membership
Committee
Placement
Committee
Steering
Committee
Nominating
Committee
Nominating
Committee for Executive Secretary
Task
Force on K-12 Concerns
Public
Relations Committee
As
a Legislative Assembly Delegate at Large
Interest
Group Secretary, Vice-Chair, and Chair
As
Second Vice President, First Vice President, President Elect, President, and
Immediate Past President (for two years…and, yes, that is a hint)
This
year’s award winner has served other professional associations in a similar
manner.
In
addition to service to WSCA and the discipline, our honoree has made many
conference presentations and published numerous journal articles and book
chapters. She has received
multiple teaching awards, top paper awards, received 30 grants totaling nearly
two million dollars, and currently serves as her institution’s Assistant
Dean of the Graduate School and director of the Center for Instructional
Development and Research. She has
supervised student multimedia presentations many community groups including
the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, Big Brothers, March
of Dimes, Northwest AIDS Foundation, Planned Parenthood, and WSCA.
Finally, she has given scholarly addresses and keynote addresses in
such exotic locales as Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, British Columbia, Alaska and
other locales that might not be quite so exotic.
Does
this person ever sleep?
The
primary nominator says about this year’s award winner:
“She really got
things done and improved the professional experiences and preparation for so
many graduate students and young faculty.”
She
goes on to reminisce about helping our winner put together the program for a
WSCA conference. “I
remember spreading out cards with all the program proposals on her dining room
table and trying to help her develop a schedule that avoided conflicts between
programs and people’s assignments (I’m sure that the Association uses
computer technology to do this now, but we didn’t have that option back
then!)”
Actually,
if you look on the WSCA web site, you will see Dawn’s “big board” and
Buddy the proofreading beagle to see that things have not advanced that far!
Our
honoree is also an avid skier, placing highly in national competitions. Peter Andersen says about our recipient, “You
can quote me on her skiing style "The woman does not stop and does not
turn. She points the boards down the hill and goes for it. If you want to ski
with her, you have to ski the same way."
This
style is referred to these days as “extreme.”
It certainly appears that this adequately describes the professional
life of this year’s WSCA Distinguished Service Award winner, Jody Nyquist of
the University of Washington.
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ETHICS
OF SUBMITTING PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
Dawn
O. Braithwaite, WSCA President
We
had some issues arise when I was Primary Program Planner that made me realize
the need to highlight ethical issues surrounding submitting papers and
proposals to WSCA, other conferences, and publications.
Senior scholars can help by mentoring students and new scholars
concerning these procedures. See
the complete handout on “Submitting Papers to Conferences” on the WSCA
Website. If you have questions
about any of these procedures, please contact your Interest Group Chair or a
WSCA officer for advice. We are available to help you!
SUBMITTING
ETHICALLY
·
Competitive papers or programs may not have been accepted and presented
previously at another conference before submission or presentation at WSCA,
with the exception of a student-only conference.
·
Competitive papers may not have been accepted for publication (in
press) or published at the time of submission, with the exception of a
student-only publication).
·
Submit each paper or program proposal to one interest group only.
·
Debut Paper authors are scholars who have not presented a paper at a
state, regional, national or international conference, or published in any
academic journal." All authors of a co-authored paper must meet these
eligibility requirements to be considered a Debut Paper.
SUBMISSION=
AGREEMENT TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
·
Submitting a paper or agreeing to be on a panel is a commitment to
attend the conference. Failure to do so damages the credibility of the person
who did not attend, their department, the panel organizer, and the interest
group sponsoring the panel.
·
If you have a co-author on a paper, it is not necessary for all authors
to attend.
·
When serious, unforeseeable life events prevent attendance, be sure to
inform the panel organizer, interest group chair, and the chair of the panel
as far in advance as possible.
DELIVERING
PAPERS TO RESPONDENTS
·
If your competitive paper is accepted, you normally have a chance to
edit the paper, if you wish, and send it to the respondent (usually interest
group chairs send competitive papers to the respondent).
·
Whether a competitive paper or panel, send the paper to a respondent
less than three weeks before the conference.
Do not expect the respondent to read your paper right before the
conference or at the conference.
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Editor's
Notes
by John A. Cagle
Our hope to make the newsletter a useful tool for
WSCA and our members to communicate with one another. There is also a print version mailed
to members.
The website version, WSCA News on the
Web, has "late-breaking" news between the print editions, and it
is of course in color. If members or interest groups have webpages of interest, we can put
links on our homepage to them.
WSCA News generally comes
out three times a year: April, October, and January--not exactly a calendar year, but
facilitative of our convention schedule. Material is cordially invited, especially
scatalogical humor or anecdotal narratives or germane editorials, although reports on the
activities and vicissitudes of our interest groups and members may well be more
appropriate. The October 2000 deadline is about September 16th,
2000.
Comments and suggestions to me, johnca@csufresno.edu, are welcome, either for the
print or electronic versions of the WSCA News.
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