Save the Date for the 2018 NCA Institute for Faculty Development
The NCA Institute for Faculty Development, also known as the “Hope Conference,” is a small conference that provides undergraduate Communication faculty members the opportunity to solicit feedback on scholarship, build collaborative research and pedagogical relationships, learn about new directions in theory and pedagogy, and develop new course area expertise.
The 2018 conference will be held at Denison University in Granville, OH, July 22-28. Faculty seminars will include "This Ain’t Your Grandparent’s Research Methods: Holistic Research for 21st Century Problems and Issues," led by Christine S. Davis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte); "Communicating about Taboo Topics," led by Mark P. Orbe (Western Michigan University); "Communicating Positive Deviance for Social Change," led by Arvind Singhal (University of Texas at El Paso); "Gender Matters in Contemporary News Media," led by Linda Steiner (University of Maryland); "Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication," led by Elizabeth A. Suter (University of Denver); and "Inventing a Rhetoric of (Black) Suffering," led by Eric King Watts (University of North Carolina). Patrice Buzzanell, Chair of Communication at the University of South Florida, will serve as the 2018 Scholar-in-Residence.
Registration will be open soon.
Questions? Contact LaKesha Anderson at NCA or Suzanne Condray at Denison University.