December 5, 2019
Caitlyn Reinauer is NCA’s Academic and Professional Affairs Manager. Working within the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs, Caitlyn supports the association’s public engagement efforts and produces many of the reports and resources available on the NCA website.
Caitlyn earned her B.S. in Political Science with a minor in Communication from East Carolina University. During her time at ECU, Caitlyn worked for Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and City Councilwoman Marion Blackburn. Prior to joining NCA, Caitlyn worked as an intern for a Government Relations firm in Washington, DC. Before serving in her current role at NCA, Caitlyn was the association’s Academic and Professional Affairs Associate and the NCA Administrative Assistant.
When she is not busy in the NCA National Office, Caitlyn enjoys spending time with family and friends, staying active, and following politics.
The official newsletter of the National Communication Association: Issue #10, Dec. 2024
In a Los Angeles Times article, Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University, offers an explanation for why presidential candidates are more comfortable using profanity than in previous years. In a Deseret News article, Dawn O. Braithwaite, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses research on the changing state of marriage in America. In...
CSCA 2020 Undergraduate Honors Research Conference The 2020 Central States Communication Association (CSCA) President’s Undergraduate Honors Research Conference (UHRC) will be held Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, during the 88th annual CSCA convention in Chicago, IL. The UHRC offers undergraduate students an opportunity to share their original research...
NCA recently joined 15 learned societies in endorsing an American Sociological Association statement on Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs). According to the statement, SETs play a prominent role in how faculty in North America are evaluated. However, the use of these evaluations in personnel decisions can be problematic. SETs can...
Travis Dixon is a Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Dixon has received five top paper awards and a top article award from the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Dr. Dixon is the author of numerous publications on media effects and stereotyping,...
In September, NCA hosted Communicating About Climate, an NCA public program held on the campus of the University of Montana. More than 60 people attended the program, which focused on the role communication plays in educating, informing, and persuading publics about climate change. Panelists also discussed obstacles to communicating about...
NCA’s Committee on International Discussion and Debate (CIDD) promotes international understanding and the practice of communication through discussion and debates between students from the United States and other nations. This fall, Niamh Thompson, from Glasgow, Scotland, and Dan Scanio, from London, England, visited 14 host U.S. campuses to debate with...
This fall, NCA published two new reports about the Communication discipline. The 2018-2019 Academic Job Listings in Communication Report is an annual analysis of college and university position advertisements to fill academic positions in Communication, using data from job postings in the online NCA Career Center, the CRTNET listserv, and...
NCA is pleased to announce six Advancing the Discipline grants, which together will provide more than $25,000 in funds to the following members for projects to be completed in 2020: NCA also congratulates Rocío Galarza Molina, Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey México, who is the recipient...