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2010
Roy Schwartzman reports the launch of a new journal:

Dear Colleagues:

We are pleased to announce publication of the inaugural volume of the online version of the Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education (JALHE), available without cost at www.missouriwestern.edu/AppliedLearning/issues.asp.

JALHE, published by Missouri Western State University, serves the international community of scholars engaged in applied learning at institutions of higher education. Its purpose is to advance scholarship on applied learning by providing an outlet for empirical, interpretive, and theoretical work related to this pedagogical practice.

The print version of JALHE is available for an individual and institutional subscription rate of $50/year. Subscriptions are available from the Office of Applied Learning, 203 Popplewell Hall, Missouri Western State University, 4525 Downs Dr., St. Joseph, MO 64507 or
appliedlearning@missouriwestern.edu. Alternately, individual subscriptions are included as part of the Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education registration fee. See links below for conference program and registration information.

Limited back issues may be available by contacting
appliedlearning@missouriwestern.edu, but free access is available to all journal content on the journal website listed above.

Sincerely,

Kelly Bouas Henry, Ph.D. (Missouri Western State University) & Roy Schwartzman, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Founding Co-Editors of JALHE

2009

Mônica Pombo is the assistant chair of the Communication Department at Appalachian State University.

Cathy Ross tells us:  "I've left the classroom after teaching for 25 years.  My new title is Assistant to the Vice President for Learning.  Major responsibilities include serving as liaison between faculty and administration and liaison with SACS, and serving on the Learning Unit planning team.  I do plan to keep close ties with the Communication field."
Kiya Ward (UNC Greensboro) received the Bob & Ann Weiss Top Undergraduate Student Paper Award at the National Association of Communication Centers conference in Philadelphia. Her paper is titled "The X Factor: Building Relationships Within Speaking Center Consultations."
Kiya was also named the Joan and Pete Allan Speaking Center Fellow at UNC Greensboro.
Hema Yarragunta (UNCG) has accepted the position of Assistant Director at UNC Greensboro's speaking center effective August 1st.
2008
Hemalatha R. Yarragunta (UNC Greensboro) received the Huddy-Gunn Top Graduate Student Paper Award at the National Association of Communication Centers conference in Colorado Springs.
Kimberly M. Cuny (UNC Greensboro) received the 2008 National Communication Association’s Von Till Newcomer Award for Communication Centers.
Hemalatha R. Yarragunta (UNCG) received the 2008 National Communication Association’s Outstanding Consultant Award for Communication Centers. 
Roy Schwartzman's (UNC-Greensboro) comprehensive, 575-page hybrid basic course textbook is available from Kendall/Hunt and from Amazon.com. For more information go to: http://roypoet.com/Textbook.html
Kathleen (Kathie) Turner (Davidson College) just had two entries published in the Encyclopedia of American Journalism (Routledge, 2008): "Johnson, Lyndon and the Media" and "credibility gap"
2007
Sandra Hochel and Charmaine E. Wilson (USC-Aiken) recently had a book published. Titled "Hiring Right: Conducting Successful Searches in Higher Education," the book is a very practical guide for those of us involved in searches for new colleagues and administrators. The book is published by Jossey-Bass and is available online from Amazon.com.
Maggie Daniels, former CCA member (and treasurer) and her husband, Matt Michel, welcomed a their child Joshua Ted Michel on April 19, 2007.  Joshua weighed 4lb, 10oz.
Steve Madden is the new chair of the new Communication Department at Coastal Carolina University. His new email is madden@coastal.edu
Kelli Fellows is moving to University of Wilmington to start their new Health Communications Program. Her new email is Fellowsk@uncw.edu
2006
Elena Martinez-Vidal has been hired as Chair of the Humanities Department at Midlands Technical College, Columbia, SC.
2004
John Edwards was nominated to Who's Who Among America's Teacher's 2003-2004. (posted 06/14/04)
Jason Edward Black (UMD) received the Owen Peterson Award in Rhetoric and Public Address at the Southern States Communication Association convention in Tampa, April 2004 for "Marshalling Nationalism: Constitutive Paternalism in the Marshall Court's Indian Trilogy." 
 
Jason also had his article "Re/Claiming Indianness: Performative Rhetoric and the Plymouth Day of Mourning Protests" (presented at the 2003 CCA conference in Raleigh) included in _New Directions in American Indian Research_ (U of North Carolina P, forthcoming). (posted 06/14/04)
2003
Jody Natalle received the 2003 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award at UNCG.
Jody Natalle (UNCG) and Fritizi Bodenheimer (Montgomery College) have published The Woman's Public Speaking Handbook with Wadsworth Publishers.  It is available online at www.wadsworth.com.

 

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