NCA 2010: Communication Center Panels
Sunday, November 14-Wednesday, November 17
San Francisco, CA
1. If you build it, they “may?” come: Empirically identifying motivations surrounding the use of communication centers
Time:Sun, Nov 14 - 8:00am - 9:15am
Place:Parc 55 Hotel, Mission II
Session Participants:
Chair: Eunkyong Yook (Univ of Mary Washington)
“The Theory of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior applied: Faculty and student motivators for communication center usage,” Michael King (Univ of Southern Mississippi), Wendy Atkins-Sayre (Univ of Southern Mississippi)
“Student motivation and program improvement,” Jennifer Ellis (MichiganStateUniversity), Rose Clark-Hitt (MichiganStateUniversity)
“CommunicationCenters and Help Seeking: Bridging the motivations to seek instructor and communication center aid,” Michelle Moreau (James Madison Univ), C. Leigh Nelson (JamesMadisonUniversity), Toni Whitfield (James Madison Univ)
Respondent: Deanna Dannels (North CarolinaStateUniversity)
Abstract:
Academic assistance centers provide important services to today’s college and university students. Unfortunately, both students and their professors are either unaware of these services or ignorant to the support they could receive. This panel will present empirically driven research that addresses both students’ and faculty members’ motivation for attending or suggesting communication centers as worthwhile venues of assistance and will discuss strategies for getting communication centers research, such as this, published.
2. Bridging the Communication Laboratory, Basic Course, and Beyond
Time: Sun, Nov 14 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place: Hilton San Francisco, Union Square 25
Presenters:
Luke LeFebvre, College of Southern Nevada
Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway, Wayne State University
Dale Anderson, Wayne State University
Rhonda Troillett and Andrew Pyle, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
William Seiler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract:
The primary purpose of a communication laboratory is to provide students with supplemental assistance as they develop their communication skills and abilities. Communication laboratories are intended to extend students’ learning experiences beyond the classroom. Understanding how to start, maintain, and enhance this resource is critical to its success. Approaches, strategies, and tactics will be discussed to help programs design, institute, and/or enhance their communication laboratories.
3. The SpeechCenter: Helping Students Overcome Speech Anxiety
Scholar to Scholar Presents: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Time:Sun, Nov 14 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Place:Hilton San Francisco, Yosemite Foyer
Session participants:
Marlina Davidson, Univ of Nebraska, Omaha; Kate Rempfer, Univ of Nebraska, Omaha; Karen Kangas Dwyer, Univ of Nebraska, Omaha
4. Building Bridges Between Experiential Communication Education and Social Justice: Exemplars of Communication Activism Pedagogy
Time: Mon, Nov 15 – 8:00am-9:15am
Place: Hilton San Francisco / Union Square 20
Session participants:
Kimberly Cuny (Univ of North Carolina, Greensboro)HermalathaYarragunta (Univ of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Marnie Thompson (Fund 4 Democratic Communities)
Abstract:
There is a continued need for outreach and service partnerships between higher education and communities, with communication programs, such as speaking or communication centers and labs (which typically provide services or support for oral communication activities in students’ coursework at a college or university) poised to move toward educational models of outreach and service that cultivate and support activism in students and community members. Such models, however, should be rooted in proven experiential educational practices that include engagement with and reflection on urgent needs of communal life through activism. Drawing on the communication activism literature, this paper examines the 6-year evolution of outreach turned activism at the speaking center of a mid-sized public university in the Southeastern United States.
5. Centered Outside a Department: Programs, Centers, and Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships in Communication Across the Curriculum
Time:Mon, Nov 15 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place:Parc 55 Hotel, Mission II
Session Participants:
“Engineering professionalism: Bridging disciplinary cultures for student success,” April Kedrowicz (University of Utah)
“Umm, It Sounded Fine to Me? Working with Faculty and Student Mentors on Evaluating Oral Presentations,” Vesta Silva (AlleghenyCollege)
“When Those Who Can’t Do, Teach Speech: Negotiating Institutional Challenges in Integrating Speech Instruction Across Disciplines,” Jon Wiebel (AlleghenyCollege)
“Improving student communication skills: Demonstrating assignment relevance and delivering effective feedback,”Jennifer Ellis (MichiganStateUniversity)
“Communication as Professional Development: Networks, Media, and Communication Outcomes,” Daniel Emery (University of Oklahoma)
Abstract:
Accrediting agencies increasingly rely on communication outcomes as measures of student learning. Communication across the curriculum programs housed in departments often assisted these efforts, but new administrative units dedicated to communication are emerging, changing the teaching, learning and research landscape.
We consider the implications for research in teaching and learning as it emerges from these new contexts, bridging professional programs and cross-disciplinary partnerships for competency assessment, assurance of learning, and the promotion of communication scholarship.
6. Communication Centers as the Golden Gate of Oral Communication: Great Ideas For The Center (G.I.F.T.C.)
Time:Mon, Nov 15 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Place:Parc 55 Hotel, Lombard
Session participants:
Chair: Kyle Love (ColumbiaCollege)
Kimberly Cuny (Univ of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Libby McGlone (ColumbusStateCommunity College)
Christina Hopkins (ColumbusStateCommunity College)
Casey Maugh (Univ of Southern Mississippi)
Kathleen Turner (DavidsonCollege)
Eunkyong Yook (Univ of Mary Washington)
Susan Wilson (DePauwUniversity)
Marlina Davidson (Univ of Nebraska, Omaha)
Kate Rempfer (Univ of Nebraska, Omaha)
Elizabeth Strangio Harris (San JoseState Univ)
Shannon Doyle (San JoseState Univ)
Mary Von Till (San JoseState Univ)
Abstract:
This is a forum in which directors share ways in which communication centers can build and reinforce bridges within the college community and beyond through partnerships, programming, training, coursework and marketing. This session, presented in a traditional GIFTS format, will be filled with substantive, fast-moving, interactive presentation with handouts.
7. Communication Centers Section Business Meeting
Time:Mon, Nov 15 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Place:Parc 55 Hotel, Lombard
Find out more about the CommunicationCenter section, plans for the spring National Association of Communication Centers conference, and officer elections.
8. A Scholar to Scholar Roundtable: Communication Centers Spanning the Continent: Visual Ideations and Models
Time: Tue, Nov 16 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Place: Hilton San Francisco / Yosemite Foyer
Session participants:
Russell Carpenter (Eastern KentuckyUniversity)
Kyle Love (ColumbiaCollege)
Mary Von Till (San JoseStateUniversity)
Eunkyong Yook (Univ of Mary Washington)
Abstract: The purpose of this session is to introduce the audience to various configurations and uses of space and technology for communication centers. Visual examples of communication centers that literally span the continent will be shared. Also, examples of communication centers more than a decade old that started in a small seminar room closet, to a brand new multi-million dollar communication center under construction will be provided. The presenters will share multimedia presentations, still pictures, blue prints, and equipment requirements of their communication centers, as well as contact information for follow-up questions from novices to the area of communication centers. This session will hopefully provide momentum to the rising phenomenon of new communication centers sprouting around the nation and introduce newcomers to the group of NCA section scholars who are finding the scholarly exchange mutually beneficial.
9. Spanning the Divide between College and Career: Communication Centers, E-portfolios, and the Capstone Experience
Time:Tue, Nov 16 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Place:Parc 55 Hotel, Stockton
Session Participants:
Chair: Claire Deal (Hampden-SydneyCollege)
Karen Sindelar (CoeCollege)
Vicki Nelson (CurryCollege)
P. Anand Rao (University of MaryWashington)
Barbara Sims (AldersonBroaddusCollege)
Mary Von Till (San JoseStateUniversity)
Abstract:
Our panel examines one strategy – multi-media or “e-portfolio” development – that Communication Centers employ to prepare students in Capstone classes across disciplines for post-graduate life. Engaging in the process of creating a multi-media portfolio allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of their discipline as they strengthen their skills in oral communication, critical thinking, creativity, and technology. Using instructional handouts and examples of successful e-portfolio projects, we will explore e-portfolio development, implementation, and assessment.