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Communication - June, 2006
from Jerry Baldasty, chair

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Monday, September 25, 2006. Committee meetings start the new academic year; please attend lunch with the new graduate students.

Executive Committee

Newly elected to the Department’s Executive Committee: Kirsten Foot and Crispin Thurlow (each for a two year term) and Patricia Moy (to fill John Gastil’s unexpired term, one year). Lisa Coutu was elected as the alternate member; she will serve if others cannot attend. Leah Ceccarelli continues as a member. John Gastil, as the new associate chair, will remain on the committee as an ex officio member.

Undergraduate Excellence in research, public speaking and journalism

The Department held its annual celebration of undergraduate excellence in communication on June 1. Dr. Matt McGarrity oversaw the public speaking contest finals. Tristie Tajima, speaking on “The Danger of Drilling in ANWR,” received the first place Jody Deering Nyquist Public Speaking Award. Second place went to Thomas Hudson (“The Legalization of Medical Marijuana”) and third place went to Rachel Proctor (“The Promise of Nuclear Power”).

Communication student Alevtina Gall received the Nyquist Award for Original Undergraduate Research for her work on jury orientations. Valerie Holder received the Nyquist Award for Original Undergraduate Theory and Practice. Both students worked on their projects with Professor John Gastil.

The Pioneer Newspaper Excellence in Journalism Awards recognized outstanding work by students: Bridget Budbill (Opinion Journalism), Jason McBride (Legislative Reporting), Tina Chaddick (Visual Journalism), Melissa Santos (Community Journalism) and Rebekah Schilperoort (Feature Journalism).

Gerry Philipsen served as the master of ceremonies, and introduced the three UW Communication alumni who served as the public speaking contest judges: Bettina Woodford (Ph.D, 2002), Nancy Wick (Ph.D., 1997) and LeMar Oleson (BA, 2005). Dave Domke introduced the Pioneer awards.

Thanks to Matt McGarrity, Gerry Philipsen, Mike Henderson, Karen Rathe and Victoria Sprang for their work in organizing the event.

2006 Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

The new members of the department’s Alumni Hall of Fame are:

Rita Brogan (BA, 1972; MA, 1975, Communications). Rita Brogan is the owner and CEO of Pacific Rim Resources, a 40+ person, full-service public affairs and communications agency. The company focuses on civic community and the environment, and has offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C. PRR has won numerous local and national awards in marketing and public relations. It has been listed in 5 of the past 6 years by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the 100 fastest growth privately held businesses in Washington State. Media Inc listed it as one of the 100 largest public relations firms in the US, 2001-2004.

She has been extensively involved in community service, including leadership positions with the Seattle Municipal League, Board of Directors; Downtown Seattle Business Association; Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce; Intiman Theater; International District Urban Design Advisory Committee; Seattle School Levy Campaign; Washington State Women’s Council; Governor’s Task Force on Hunger; Asian Counseling and Referral Service; Pacific Hospital Preservation and Development Authority Governing Council; Seattle-King County Bar Association; Virginia Mason Research Center and Washington Gives. In the 1970s, she worked on the International Examiner, as a reporter and as editor.

Harold Carr (BA., 1955, Communications). Harold E. Carr retired from The Boeing Company after a long career in public relations at the company. His positions at Boeing included: Vice President, Public Relations and Advertising; Director of Public Relations and Advertising; Director of Marketing Communications, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group; Public relations for Minuteman missile program, advance strategic missiles, and Boeing’s role in the Apollo/Saturn moon-landing program. In the early 1980s, Carr coordinated four international sales tours for the Boeing Company’s then-new 767 and 757 jet transports, and the first appearances of those airplanes at the Famborough and Paris air shows.

At Boeing, Carr was responsible for directing the company’s communications (both external and internal) and advertising functions. He was also responsible for the company's historical archive and the company wide weekly newspaper, Boeing News. He also served for 11 years on the company's corporate contributions committee.

He is a board member of Public Relations Seminar, a nationwide organization for senior public relations executives; member and former president of the San Francisco Academy, an organization devoted to providing advanced training for upper level corporate public relations professionals, and he was designed a “Public Relations All Star,” by Inside PR in 1996. He is also the recipient of the Jay Rockey Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004, Puget Sound Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

His community service includes leadership positions with Goodwill Industries, 5th Avenue Theater, Tyee Club, Seattle-King County Sports Council, Downtown Seattle Association, Henry Art Gallery, PONCHO. He has been president and a member of the Board of Trustees of Museum of Flight.

Tim Egan (BA, 1981, Communications). Tim Egan has been a reporter for the New York Times for the past 16 years. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of team of reporters who did a series on how race is lived in America. He has done special projects on the West, on the decline of rural America, and he has followed the entire length of the Lewis and Clark Trail for a series in the New York Times. He is also a radio essayist for the BBC, one of the regular contributors to the "Letter from America" feature started by the late Alistair Cooke.

Egan is the author of five books. His book on the Northwest, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, has been a regional bestseller for twelve years, and was rated in a poll by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as one of ten essential books ever written about the region. His book on the West, Lasso the Wind, Away to the New West, won the 1999 Governors Writing Award from Washington State, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Sunday Book Review. His latest book is The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.

Patricia Fisher (BA, 1968, Communications). Patricia Fisher, a longtime area journalist, was a mentor to many young journalists – and particularly to young African American journalists. Fisher was the first woman and the first African American to write editorials for the Seattle Times and was a co-founder of the Black Journalists Association of Seattle. When she died in early 2006, the Seattle Times carried this article (Feb. 13, 2006) about her:

Open doors lead to open minds. That's the way Patricia Fisher saw things. And for untold numbers of Northwest journalists, she proved a willing mentor, who not only took on but sought out such responsibilities.

"She opened doors that many journalists were able to step through because she was there and made the difference," said Micki Flowers, a longtime friend and former KIRO-TV reporter who met Ms. Fisher in 1966 when both were students at the University of Washington.

Ms. Fisher, who was both the first woman and the first black to write editorials for The Seattle Times, died Sunday. She was 59 and had multiple sclerosis.

A graduate of Lakewood's Clover Park High School, Ms. Fisher taught English at the UW for seven years before joining The Times as a reporter in 1975. A decade later, she joined the paper's roster of editorial voices with a focus on education and social justice, earning a reputation as caring, courageous and unafraid of controversy.

She always made time to offer advice and encouragement to young journalists, committed to being part of the action she called for.

"Pat doesn't know any strangers," former Times columnist Don Williamson wrote in 1991. "She made room in her life for [those] who needed time, attention and a willing ear."

When Times columnist Jerry Large joined the paper in 1981, "there were not a lot of people of color," he said. "She was always very helpful. She took me under her wing."

In 1987, Ms. Fisher, along with Large and others, co-founded the Black Journalists Association of Seattle (BJAS), the local chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Several years earlier, Ms. Fisher and other local journalists had co-founded the Northwest Minority Media Association, now called Northwest Journalists of Color. But Ms. Fisher's energies were mostly directed at students, and she ignited their journalistic desires through her classroom appearances. "If she saw even a spark of interest, she was there to nurture it," Flowers said.

Randy Y. Hirokawa (MA, PhD, 1977, 1980, Speech Communication). Dr. Randy Hirokawa, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Hawaii, Hilo, is known widely for his expertise in the area of small group communication and decision-making effectiveness. His scholarship has contributed to the development of a theory called the "functional perspective." This theory accounts for group decision-making performance in terms of the role that group communication plays in facilitating or impeding the group's efforts to perform crucial cognitive and interpersonal decision-making functions. This theory has been identified as one of the three most influential theories of small group communication.

His publications include three edited books, 36 refereed journal articles, and 24 book chapters. He has been editor of Communication Studies, an editorial board member for five journals (Small Group Research, Organizational Science, Communication Monographs, Communication Studies, Journal of Applied Communication Research), and served in numerous leadership positions in the National Communication Association. He has been the Van Zelst Lecturer at Northwestern University, the Thomas M. Scheidel Lecturer at the University of Washington and has received the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award (University of Iowa) and the Collegiate Teaching Award (University of Iowa).

Robert Keatley (BA, 1956, Communications). Robert Keatley has had a distinguished journalist career, serving as Editor, South China Morning Post; Editor, Wall Street Journal, Europe; Writer, editor, Wall Street Journal, on international and economic issues; Editor and later publisher, Asian Wall Street Journal; and staff reporter, Wall Street Journal—in San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong, Washington DC. He was editor of the UW Daily.

As a Journal reporter, he made a lengthy visit to China in the spring of 1971 as the first American reporter to receive an individual journalist’s visa following the advent of Ping-Pong diplomacy. He returned the next February with the press group covering the visit of President Richard Nixon. During those years, he also made several trips to China, the Mideast, the (then) Soviet Union and elsewhere with Secretaries of State William Rogers, Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance, as well as with Presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford.

He is the founder and editor of Hong Kong Journal, an online quarterly journal hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This new publication is devoted to articles about political, economic and social issues relating to Hong Kong and its neighborhood, and is intended to provide background information for those concerned about the territory and its development. He is also a director, Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs and a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington, the Hong Kong Club and the Ladies Recreation Club of Hong Kong

During autumn 2005, Keatley taught a course on opinion-writing at the journalism department of Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he also served as a guest lecturer and participated in several conferences co-hosted by the department.

Ted Van Dyk (BA, 1955, Communications). Van Dyk is a veteran journalist and political activist. He worked as chief of staff to Vice President Hubert Humphrey and has been active in national policy and politics for more than 30 years..

At the University of Washington, he served as an editor and columnist of The Daily and received the Bob Doble award as "the most helpful and inspirational" member of his journalism class of 1955.

Van Dyk received his M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1956. While in New York he worked as a sports reporter and editor for the Long Island (N.Y.) Daily Press. He returned to Seattle in 1956 to work as a reporter and editor for United Press and the Seattle Times. In left in mid-1957 for active military duty as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst.

Van Dyk subsequently served as a Soviet specialist and intelligence analyst at the Pentagon; as deputy and acting director of the European Communities' (now European Union) Washington, DC office (1962-4); as senior assistant to Vice President Hubert Humphrey (1964-8); as vice president of Columbia University (1968-9); as president of his own Washington, DC consulting firm (1969-76 and 1985-97); and as coordinator of foreign assistance programs in the Carter Administration's White House and State Department (1977-8). He additionally served as a vice president of the Weyerhaeuser Company (1978-80), president of the Center for National Policy (1981-5), Washington, D.C., and executive vice president of The Milken Institute (l997-9), Santa Monica, CA.

In national politics, Van Dyk served as a senior political and policy advisor to Presidential candidates Hubert Humphrey (1964, 1968), George McGovern (1972), Jimmy Carter (1976), Ted Kennedy (1980), Walter Mondale (1984), Gary Hart (1988) and Paul Tsongas (1992). He has been principal author of the Democratic national platform on several occasions.

Van Dyk is a board member of the Roosevelt Institute, Hyde Park, NY; the Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota; the Jean Monnet Institute, Washington, DC; the Committee for Study of the American Electorate, Washington, DC; and is a member of the national program committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, and coordinator of its Seattle book-study program.

He has over the years published many essays in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and other national publications. Since early 2001 he has been an editorial-page columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and has continued writing periodically for national publications.

Selection process

Hall of Fame members are chosen in a two-step process. Faculty, staff and alumni serve as a nominating committee, and current Hall of Fame members then vote on those nominated.

Please plan to attend the Department of Communication’s Alumni Hall of Fame celebration on Thursday, October 12.

Crowell Fund Run

Many thanks to all who made the Crowell Fund Run such a successful event. Our thanks, in particular, to the Crowell Interns --- Allison Fujimoto, Coma Te, Tom Knoop, Teresa Causin and Jenna Curry – for their very effective organizational work and marketing.

Our thanks, too, to all of the corporate sponsors: Sureshot Café, Big Time, Great Harvest Bread Company, AVE Copy Center, Road Runner Sports, Nissan of the EASTSIDE at Bellevue, Coma Events and Promotions, Solstice, Talking Rain, Vincenzo's, Inner Visions, H&I Automotive, Bulldog News, Lioe's Automotive, University Book Store, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and Dick's.

Many thanks to Jessica Harvey, who served as the graduate student liaison with the Crowell team, and to Victoria Sprang for her work with the team.

Thanks to those who participated in the Fund Run: Giorgia Aiello, Tamara Barnett, Randy Beam, Laura Black, Leah Ceccarelli, Ted Coopman, Ben Crosby, Sheryl Cunningham, Tony Docan, David Domke, Lisa Domke, Will Domke, Kate Dunsmore, Louisa Edgerly, Steve Fox, Irina Gendelman, Kristin Gustafson, Kathy Hall, Jessica Harvey, Julie Homchick, Mark Hungerford, Sue Lockett John, Ralina Joseph, James Joseph, TJ Joseph, Nicole Kim, Gina Martinez, Jean Miller, Tema Milstein, Katherine Oleson, Timothy J. Pasch, April Peterson, Karen Rathe, Sarah Shmuel, Britta Smith, Stephanie Smith, Leah Sprain, Scott Sprain, Victoria Sprang, Clifford Tatum, Barbara Warnick, Lea Werbel, Dru Williams and Jerry Baldasty.

People

Graduate student Angelo Baca organized a showing of Native Voices films recently. The films show included: “History Lessons,” “The Last Great Hunt,” “Lived What I Got To,” “The Repatriator,” and ”A Mormon and Shoshone Experience.”

Communication student Kayla Webley was a national finalist in feature writing in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence National Award Competition for her story “From students to doctors.”

Jerry Baldasty served as co-MC at the Go-MAP annual spring recognition ceremony. He also represented the department at the College’s recent Celebration of Distinction dinner.

Bruce Shapiro is the new Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (effective June 5, 2006). Shapiro has been field director for the Dart Center since 2001, supervising international affiliate programs based in London and Melbourne. Since 1999, he has been a contributing editor for The Nation; he has also worked as a columnist and as associate editor for that publication. He has worked extensively in newspapers – at the New Haven Independent, Gannett Westchester-Rockland Newspapers, Advocate Newspapers (New Haven). He is editor of Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (2003) and author (with Jesse L. Jackson and Jesse L. Jackson Jr.) of Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future. Shapiro writes widely – reporting, essays, commentary for The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Salon.com, the Guardian, Harper’s, New Statesman, American Journalism Review, the Irish Times, and many others. Since 1994, he has been a lecturer at Yale University, teaching investigative journalism. He is the recipient of numerous awards – from NAACP (Image Awards), National Magazine Awards, Society of Professional Journalists. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Shapiro was the unanimous choice of the search committee (which included Dart staff member Robin Brooks and Communication faculty members Doug Underwood and Jerry Baldasty).

Roger Simpson is stepping down as Executive Director of the Center, but will remain as the Dart Professor of Communication. Roger deserves great praise for his remarkable work over the past decade in creating the national and international reputation of the Dart Center as a leader in the study of journalism and trauma.

Graduate student Tim Pasch was honored recently at a Canadian Studies Center reception in recognition of his Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Inuktitut.

Crispin Thurlow will be one of a handful of European professors teaching in a summer workshop "Multimodal Discourse(s): Image and Communication" at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain.

A recent report from Gerry Philipsen describes the great reach of the “Ways of Speaking” spring series during spring quarter. Dozens of faculty and graduate students participated in the Ways of Speaking (which included a lecture, a lecture series, a course and a small conference). The series also brought faculty from eight other universities to UW. Many thanks to Gerry for organizing this ambitious project.

The Department of Communication awarded more than $70,000 in scholarships to students this year. Thanks to Victoria Sprang, Diana Smith, David Sherman and Paul Ford for their work on this year’s event. Pictures and further information.

Recent alumni visitors have included Microsoft manager Joanne Harrell (1976), public relations practitioner Nancy Eastham (1971), Microsoft manager Tom Cohen (1972) and retired reporter and UW Columns writer, Jean Reichenbach (1981).

Many thanks to Sheryl Cunningham, Kate Dunsmore, Sarah Shmuel, Dru Williams, Kristin Gustafson, Amoshaun Toft, Stephanie Smith and others for organizing the recent Gradaute Student research poster session.

During spring quarter two of Karen Rathe’s classes and an independent-study seminar (led by Karen and Kathy Gill) worked with Pioneer Newspapers, which owns a number of small dailies and weeklies in the western states. The goal was to “revision” one its dailies, the Klamath Falls Herald and News. A major class assignment for COM 460-B (Publication Design) involved redesigning section covers for the paper. In COM 362, Community News Lab, the students brainstormed numerous ideas for a new interactive feature for the paper. Finally, an independent-study group conducted individual research that looked into the future of the newspaper and what it means for Klamath Falls and similar-sized markets. Ideas explored included how e-paper (electronic paper) will change the face of newspapers; ways of building community online and off; and ways to re-brand the newspaper to a younger generation of readers.

Jerry Baldasty’s communication history course during spring quarter focused on the 1970s history of the International Examiner, an Asian Pacific American newspaper based in Seattle’s International District. The students gave a public presentation of their work on the Examiner on June 6. Among those attending the presentation were Nhien Nguyen, editor of the Examiner, as well as several of the people who had served as oral history resources for the class: Ron Chew, Doug Chin, Gary Iwamoto, Alan Lau, Sharon Maeda, Bob Santos and Mayumi Tsutakawa. Other guests included Asst. Dean Janice DeCosmo and Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange, UW’s interim vice president for minority affairs. Many thanks to Paul Ford for his creative work with the students.

In the media.

From the UW Daily, May 23, 2006.

Study of black TV fills academic gap:
UW professor publishes dictionary of African-American shows and stars
By Lynette Suazo

All it took was flipping through the pages of a few books at Elliott Bay Book Co. to make UW professor Kathleen Fearn-Banks realize there was not enough written about African-Americans on television. Now, years later, she is the author of the first Historical Dictionary of African-American Television, published by Scarecrow Press.

Fearn-Banks, a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), has a background in television. She was a PR manager for NBC for 21 years, as well as NBC's first African-American publicist and its second female publicist when she was hired in 1969. Before that she was a writer, producer and reporter for Channel 2, a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles.

Though it only took Fearn-Banks two years to write the dictionary, it contains about 23 years' worth of research. "It was tedious; it was the kind of book you don't finish until you send it out to the publisher," she said.

The dictionary includes brief biographies of black actors like Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington and Flip Wilson. TV shows featured in the dictionary include Amos 'n' Andy, All of Us, The Cosby Show, Family Matters and many others. It also illustrates the contributions of news and sports broadcasts to African-Americans' presence on TV.

Students worked on some of the research included in Fearn-Banks' book. Communication Studies librarian Jessica Albano helped Fearn-Banks train all the undergraduates who assisted her in the research process.

"The dictionary fills a gap in the scholarship of African-American popular culture," Albano said. Fearn-Banks also credits doctoral student April Peterson for her research assistance. Peterson's dissertation, which investigated issues of interracial romance and domestic workers on television, was inspired by Fearn-Banks' work.

Though Fearn-Banks said she does not have any concrete plans to write another dictionary, she is reading and collecting information in case she has a change of heart. Right now she is conducting an academic study with people of all races.

With that project, she is trying to find out the primary things people remember about the television they have watched throughout their lives. She is especially interested in the thoughts people had when they didn't see many minorities on TV. Fearn-Banks is also working on an in-depth biography of comedian Flip Wilson. Her dictionary is available now at UW libraries, the University Book Store, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

In University Week, May 25, 2005

Urban Archives: Listening to the city
By Peter Kelley

A city, or any public space, speaks in many ways.

In its architecture and design, certainly, but there are other messages, too -- angry graffitti, stern warnings, war protests, confessions of love, the stoic whispers of signs fading slowly on the sides of old buildings.

Three UW graduate students -- Irina Gendleman, Tom Dobrowolsky and Giorgia Aiello -- feel that such images, whether text or improvised art, are like snapshots of our collective experience and history, and worthy of collection and study.

And that's why they started the Urban Archives project, which has grown to become an ongoing digital archive, and so interested its undergraduate participants that many keep working for no credit, for the fun of continued discovery.

"This started out of an interest in studying public spaces as mediums of communication," said Gendelman, a graduate student and teaching assistant in communication, who is herself a public art muralist. She did her master's work at the UW on "Communication Outlaws: Graffiti Control in Public Space," and also met Dobrowolsky there, whose interest is in ghost signs, or the outsized advertisements and messages from decades past fading on city buildings.

"So we've been working on this -- basically, the idea is to collect and figure out what text exists in the streets and sort of classify them, as a botanist would study plants.

"When we started out, we just jumped in and started collecting everything we could, but now we're focusing on some specific elements, like graffiti, to give us direction. But we're not limited to that."
Indeed not: In fact, their image collecting went so well, the students now have worked with UW Libraries to create a special digital archive of the hundreds of images they have found. .

…. But as fascinated as Gendelman, Dobrowolsky and Aiello are about the content and collection of Urban Archives material, they all are interested in it from a teaching perspective, too.

"Working with undergrads is great for us, too,"said Gendelman, adding that many students have continued working on the project for more than a single quarter. "This has been an amazing pedagogical experience -- many students do more work than we assign them."

Giorgia Aiello got the opportunity to create her own class when she was awarded a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship in 2004, so she designed a class in visual communication. Then she taught a Special Topics class in the Comparative History of Ideas program, which attracted more students, who studied the Aurora Avenue and Fremont areas of Seattle in a way that is consistent with the Urban Archives project. Enrollment has remained strong, as they mentor students through directed research credits.

At first, Aiello said, some students tend to question the seriousness or even academic legitimacy of studying buildings and graffiti. "But then they start researching and they get excited. Amazing, it's a pattern.?

And these are not mere passing observations; the students work as research assistants in their own classes, and use ethnographic methods, photography and archival research as they gather an ever-expanding collection of images from Seattle and beyond.

The Urban Archives project started small but continues to grow. As Gendelman, Aiello and Dobrowolsky said in the mission and goals of the project, "Our mission is to grow this body of knowledge of public space through an archaeology of the city.?

The three graduate students remain enthusiastic about their project and how it can help create a greater understanding of the living history that is all around and within Seattle.

Of the project and the ghost images he studies, Dobrowolsky said, "I don't see much difference between what somebody writes on walls as a political project and these kinds of advertisements, going all the way back to cave paintings."

The City of Seattle, like any public space, speaks in many ways -- and the UW's Urban Archives project, it seems, is listening.

Committee assignments for 2006-7

Standing Committees

Executive Committee
Ceccarelli, Moy, Thurlow, Foot, Gastil (ex officio)

Graduate Committee
Moy, chair; Howard, Beam, Kielbowicz,
McGarrity, Fortine

Professional Development Committee
Ceccarelli, chair; Foot, Moy

Undergraduate
Coutu, chair; Chan, Philipsen, Neff,
Sherman

Technology
Gastil, chair; Howard, Lagos, Gill, Pelc, Ford

Faculty Development
Kielbowicz, chair; Giffard, Underwood, Fearn Banks, Philipsen

Journalism
Simpson, chair; Rathe, Kaplan, Baldasty

Development, and Alumni Outreach
Baldasty, chair; Neff, Bennett, Henderson, Simpson, Thurlow, Sprang

Ad Hoc Committees

Search: Race/ethnicity
Domke, chair; Joseph, Thurlow, Fearn-Banks, Bonus

Search: Rhetoric
Ceccarelli, chair; Manusov, Kaplan, Chan, Philipsen

Search: Digital media
Giffard, chair; Beam, Rathe, Gill, Underwood, Ford

Interdisciplinary outreach
Howard, Foot, Gill, Baldasty

Space
Domke, Joseph, Manusov, Fearn Banks

Committee appointments were made by the chair in consultation with the associate chair and with the chair designate (due to the department’s new conflict of interest policy). Divisional Dean Judy Howard recently appointed Valerie Manusov to serve as chair designate for 2006-7.

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