“'Difficult Dialogues, Difficult Choices': Re-envisioning NCA in an Era of Academic Backlash, Dwindling Financial Support, and a Whole Lot of Frustration"
Rich West, Ph.D.
Emerson College
Saturday, November 17, 2012
NCA is at a crossroads. This challenging
intersection requires us to reframe and retool many of our past practices and
recast our association in a different light. The Presidential Address, ““'Difficult Dialogues, Difficult Choices':
Re-envisioning NCA in an Era of Academic Backlash, Dwindling Financial Support,
and a Whole Lot of Frustration,” delivered by NCA
President Rich West, identifies several of the difficult conversations that lie
ahead for both NCA, in particular and the communication field, in general, as
our membership and academic institutions evolve. Always candid, usually
humorous, and sometimes an agitator, Rich West shares his perspectives and
positions on how NCA must "adapt to become adept" during these
changing times.
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"Finding Our Way and Finding Our Voice"
Lynn H. Turner, Ph.D.
Marquette University
Saturday, November 19, 2011
In the NCA Presidential Address, “Finding Our Way and Finding Our Voice,” Lynn H. Turner, Marquette University, explores the challenges and limits of voice and how voice is dependent upon many things, including authority to speak, willing listeners, and civil intent. She applies these ideas to our association and raises several questions including: 1) can an association of 8000+ members have a "voice"? 2) how can voice be exercised on an association level? 3) what do we have to do in order to have our voice be heard?
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The 2011 Presidential Address and Award were sponsored by SAGE Publications.
“Moving Toward NCA’s 100th: What Ties Carry and Keep Us Together?”
Dawn O. Braithwaite, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
As we reflect on the history of NCA and plan to celebrate our upcoming centennial in 2014, we find ourselves part of a discipline of vitality and breadth. A study of our association’s history helps us understand our diversity as scholars and teachers. At the same time we must also ask, what are the ties that carry and keep us together? Around what do we cohere as an association, discipline, programs, and as individual members of NCA? Dawn O. Braithwaite will reflect on these questions in her Presidential Address.
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