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Five Years Out

The NCA 95th Annual Convention was "five years out" from NCA’s 100th Anniversary in 2014. Moving toward the Centennial of NCA presented us with opportunities to consider the past, present, and future of our association and discipline.  NCA communities (divisions, sections, and caucuses) and affiliated organizations planned special Five-Years-Out sessions. These sessions addressed five questions: 

    1. What is the historical development of your Knowledge Community or affiliated organization in the discipline and at NCA? 
    2. What are the major themes and contributions of your Knowledge Community or affiliated organization over its history? What is the state of the art?  
    3. Where is your Knowledge Community or affiliated organization headed? What do you want to accomplish by NCA’s Centennial?  
    4. What are the greatest resources you bring to the discipline and what are the challenges to meeting your goals? 
    5. What are your greatest contributions to communities inside and outside of the academy? Where does and where can your Knowledge Community or affiliated organization make a difference? 

/uploadedImages/Advertisements/Routledge_rev-239x105.jpgSelect Five-Years-Out sessions were videotaped and are available below. Videotaping and online archive resources were made possible by Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Routledge, Taylor & Francis is proud to be recognised as a sponsor of the Five-Years-Out program at the NCA’s 95th Annual Convention. Our continuing partnership with the Association ensures broad global dissemination of top-quality research and furthers the development of the communication studies research community worldwide.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 
 
 
 
Settling in Time of Change: On “Five Years Out” in Culture and Communication  Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division  8:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Marquette 
Organizational Communication Five Years Out  Organizational Communication Division  8:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Waldorf 
What Distinguishes/Ought to Distinguish Feminist Scholarship in Communication Studies? Revisiting the Questions Twenty-one Years Later  Feminist and Women's Studies  9:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Marquette 
Five Years Out: Understanding McLuhan  Media Ecology Association  9:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Waldorf 
Five Years Out: Past Presidents Reflect and Respond  First Vice President  11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Waldorf 

Five Years Out: Engaging the Future of Training and Development 

 Training and Development Division  12:30 - 1:45 p.m.  Marquette 
Five Years Out: The Legacy of Family Communication  Family Communication Division  2:00 - 3:15 p.m.  Waldorf 
Five Years Out: Discourses of Stability and Change in Group Communication  Group Communication Division  3:30 - 4:45 p.m.  Waldorf 
Five Years Out for the American Society for the History of Rhetoric  American Society for the History of Rhetoric  3:30 - 4:45 p.m.  Marquette 
Friday, November 13, 2009 
 
 		  
 
Stability and Change in Public Address Research  Public Address Division  8:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Marquette 
Applied Communication Five-Years-Out Panel  Applied Communication Division  8:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Waldorf 
Communication as Social Construction Five Years Out: A Critical Review of the Theoretical and Practical Impact of Social Construction on Communication Studies  Communication as Social Construction Division  9:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Waldorf 
Elementary and Secondary Education Section - Five Years Out  Elementary and Secondary Education Section   9:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Marquette 
A Dozen Or So Years In and Five Years Out: The Critical and Cultural Studies Division and the National Communication Association  Critical and Cultural Studies Division  11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Marquette 
Five-Years-Out Basic Course Division Spotlight Panel  Basic Course Division   11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Waldorf 
 Communiation Apprehension and Competence Five-Years-Out Panel: Ties that Bind and Tensions that Create Growth  Communication Apprehension and Competence Division  12:30 - 1:45 p.m.  Waldorf 
Legacy, Change, and Perpetuity: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead in Communication Teaching, Training, Mentoring, and Programmatic Innovation  Undergraduate College and University Section  12:30 - 1:45 p.m.  Marquette 
Five Years Out in the Instructional Development Division: It's Always Something!  Instructional Development Division  2:00 - 3:15 p.m.  Waldorf 
Mass Communication Five Years Out: Examining the Past, Present, and Future of Mass Communication Pedagogy  Mass Communication Division  3:30 - 4:45 p.m.  Waldorf 
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Communication: Stability and Change from Our Early Beginnings to Five Years Out  The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning  3:30 - 4:45 p.m.  Marquette 
Reflections, Ideas and Future Movement- Theatre Division-Five Years Out  Theater Division  5:00 - 6:15 p.m.  Marquette 
Saturday, November 14, 2009 
 
 
 
Our Foundation and Our Future: Communication Ethics Division Contributions and Challenges in this Time of Change  Communication Ethics Division  8:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Marquette 
Anticipating the Anniversary: The Communication and Law Division Addresses its Evolution Five Years Out  Communication and the Law Division  9:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Marquette 
Five Years Out: The Women's Caucus Leadership Reflects on its Past, Present and Future  Women's Caucus   9:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Waldorf 
Interpersonal Communicaton Five Years Out: Examining the Past, Present, and Future of Interpersonal Communication Research  Interpersonal Communicaton Division  11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Waldorf 
The State of Health Communication: Stability, Change, and Progress  Health Communication Division  11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Marquette 
Five Years Out Panel for Performance Studies  Performance Studies Division  12:30 - 1:45 p.m.  Marquette 
Five Years Out: Exploring the Future of Human Communication and Technology  Human Communication and Technology Division  12:30 - 1:45 p.m.  Waldorf 
Environmental Communication: Twelve Years in and Five Years Out  Environmental Communication Division  2:00 - 3:15 p.m.  Waldorf 
What Will Your Life be Like in Five Years?: Without Freedom of Expression it May Not Matter  Freedom of Expression Division  2:00 - 3:15 p.m.  Marquette 
Service-Learning in Communication: The Impact of a Decade’s Work and Agenda for Five Years Out  New Cell  3:30 - 4:45 p.m.  Waldorf 
 Five-Years-Out Panel on the History (and Future) of the Caucus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Concerns  Caucus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Concerns  3:30 - 4:45 p.m.  Marquette