September 5, 2019
What is NCA? “It is an indispensable community of thousands of Communication scholars and teachers from across the nation and all around the world,” says NCA Executive Director Trevor Parry-Giles, who narrates our new video about the National Communication Association. Check it out and be sure to share it with your colleagues and students!
The official newsletter of the National Communication Association: Issue #18, Sep. 2025 Essential association news, publications, and convention updates Issue #18, September 2025 In This Issue: Convention News: – Get […]
Dr. Xiaoli Nan is a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at the University of Maryland-College Park. Dr. Nan researches in the areas of persuasion and health message design as well as the role of traditional and emerging media in...
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...
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...