March 2016 College News

Faculty Accolades Ann Burnette was a guest speaker at the 2016 Master Teacher Symposium at the McCoy College of Business Administration in February. In August, Ann was honored with the 2015 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, the award given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding performance in teaching. She also presented a lecture, “The Cult of True Womanhood and the 1837 ‘Pastoral Letter,’” at Texas Tech University in March. Stephanie Dailey presented her online Empirical Research Methods course (COMM 3301) at the awards ceremony for the 2015 Award for Excellence in Online Teaching. The award recognizes and rewards superior online teaching, provides models of excellence for fellow faculty, and encourages all faculty to continue to improve and advance their online teaching pedagogy. Sean Horan and co-authors published “The Role of Humor Styles and Shared Laughter in the Postdivorce Recovery Process” in the Journal of Divorce & Remarriage . The article explores implications of humor as an individual resource and shared laughter as a social resource in postdivorce resiliency. Sean is currently working on a study examining how parents and children cope following f looding. This study is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Horan was also the College’s Dean’s Seminar recipient for Spring 2016. He did a presentation on March 23rd entitled: “Connecting Campus & Community: Building A Bridge Between San Marcos & (Inter)national Audiences.” Philip Salem directed “Organizational Communication Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations,” a six-day conference sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies. The conference was from February 11-16 and featured three Sean Horan speaking at the Dean’s Seminar on March 23rd COMMUNICATION STUDIES