Engaging
21st Century Communication Students
Best
Practices for Communication Scholar-Teachers
June 7 - 10, 2001
This NCA summer conference explored seven effective
practices that address critical issues and trends in higher education in
the 21st century. Attended by well over 100 NCA members, teams of
experts addressed the following seven topics, presented best practices,
and developed much needed resources for each topic:
1.
Integrating Service-Learning into the Communication
Curriculum
2.
Incorporating Distance Education into Communication Studies
3.
Implementing Communication Studies into General Education
4.
Implementing Communication Across-the-Curriculum Programs
5.
Creating and Funding Communication Laboratories
6.
Fostering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
7.
Preparing Future Communication Faculty
The conference accomplished three major goals:
·
Models and strategies of best practices that address each
issue were shared with on-site attendees
·
Challenges related to the seven critical issues were
examined by experts on each topic in concert with the conference
attendees and related resources were developed for dissemination beyond
the conference
·
Conference proceedings, resources, recommendations for
each of the seven issues were developed and are provided by NCA
at www.natcom.org.instruction/summerconf
For each of the seven topics, the proceedings
include the following resources:
·
Contact information for experts on the topic, including
e-mail addresses and e-mail discussion lists
·
A set of essential facts about the topic, what any
interested colleague should know
·
A set of frequently asked questions and answers to those
questions
·
A set of guiding principles for pursuing or engaging in
the topic most efficaciously
·
Recommended readings on the topic
·
Other resources
The NCA National Office acknowledges and thanks the
many planners and presenters without whom this conference would not have
enjoyed the success it did.
