November December 2023 College News

Elizabeth co-chaired and presented on the panel: "Critical Pedagogy as Imagining, Materializing, and Transforming International, Intercultural, and Instructional Communication Practices and Futures." She also presented research on the panel, "Employee- Centered Perspectives on Communication, Health, and Work" and was an invited respondent to the top Teaching and Mentorship panel for the Organizational Communication Division. Nikki Saldivar Hodgson was invited to serve as guest coach for the TXST football game against Troy on October 28th. [2] Marian Houser has been named department chair of Communication Studies. Jeremy Hutchins was elected Texas Speech Communication Association Vice President at the TSCA Convention in Houston. The Texas Speech Communication Association is a professional, academic association committed to excellence in communication instruction, student performance, research, scholarly accomplishment, professional service, and political awareness. TSCA is the largest state professional communication association in the nation. [3] Wayne Kraemer was selected as a Texas State Transfer Champion. Transfer Champions are individuals who positively affect the experience of transfer students. Two faculty members and two staff members at Texas State were honored on campus during National Transfer Student Week (NTSW). Roseann Mandziuk currently serves as Immediate Past President of the National Communication Association. In this role at the annual convention she chaired the Leadership Development Committee and participated in the meetings of the Executive Committee and the Legislative Assembly. She also was a panelist on the program "Ideas of Freedom: Workshop on Gender and Race in Super Bowl Commercials." Josh Miller was selected Vice-Chair elect of the Rhetoric and Communication Theory division of the Texas State Communication Association. He also presented on two panels at the TSCA conference: "Nurturing a Spirit of Advocacy: Forensics Beyond the Academy" and "Finding Fertile Ground: Opportunities for Cultivating Fruitful Partnerships on Campus." [4] College of Fine Arts and Communication | 7 Marek Muller was a guest on the educational National Communication Podcast “A to Z” where they taught about the rhetorical concept of the “ideograph.” Marek also provided a continuing education seminar to veterinary professionals, sponsored by the nonprofit group Our Honor, on how to avoid raced and colonizing language during times of zoonotic disease outbreak. Marek recently began volunteering with the animal rights research and analytics firm Faunalytics as a research library writer, where they translate academic research articles for non-expert audiences.  Mark Paz presented at the National Communication Association conference as a panelist for a Short Course focused on directing the Basic Course in Communication Studies. The course was entitled, "Strategies and Tactics for Cultivating Graduate Teaching Assistants in Communication Programs." He presented on a panel entitled "Helping New Coaches Thrive: A Proposal for a Forensics Teaching and Learning Academy" at the Texas State Communication Association conference. Mark was also a panelist for a webinar organized by the Graduate College entitled, "Once a First-Gen, Always a First-Gen.” The webinar aimed to help first-gen graduate students navigate their path to and through grad school. [5] Manu Pokharel presented “Do more complete wireless emergency alert (WEA) messages work better than less complete messages? Testing a risk communication consensus” at the National Communication Association conference in National Harbor, Maryland. The article was selected to receive a Top Paper Award in the Applied Communication Division. Manu also began serving on the Advising Committee of the newly formed Nepalese Student Association (NSA) at Texas State University. She and her daughter Maira spoke to the Nepali student community at the religious holiday celebration "Dashain Festival" hosted by the NSA at Texas State at the end of October. Lindsay Timmerman was interviewed for the TXST podcast, "Enlighten Me," for the episode titled "Without a Trace: The Ghosting Phenomenon. " FACULTY ACCOLADES Ann Burnette published "Challenges for the second-in- command: Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate," in the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric . Ann also moderated a candidate forum for the race for Place 4 on the San Marcos City Council, sponsored by the San Marcos League of Women Voters. She asked questions of incumbent Shane Scott and challenger Atom Von Arndt. Stephanie Dailey delivered the Dean’s Seminar with a presentation entitled, “Communication in the Context of Work: How Do We Foster Organizational Membership and Belongingness?” Stephanie also welcomed Ms. Jessica Mejía, Marm A.I.D. founder and human rights activist to her Organizational Communication undergraduate class to share how she has used communication in her community organizing efforts. The students enjoyed her inspiring presentation and appreciated asking questions about her work. [1] Elizabeth K. Eger published a report, "Librarians as Conveners to Build Community Resiliency in Rural Texas: A Pilot Project Translating the COPEWELL Framework Through Community Collaboration" with Ph.D. candidate, Rex Long , and M.A. student, Anca Tonciu , and other members of the THRC team. The report describes a pilot project with two rural Texas communities to examine how community collaboration can enhance a model for resiliency planning via libraries. Elizabeth and co-author Rex Long presented their engaged research with stakeholders in Pottsboro, TX, at the Pottsboro Library to local community members and leaders. They shared applied local findings about community resiliency challenges and initial future action steps. At the NCA convention, 1 2 3 Stephanie Dailey welcomed Ms. Jessica Mejia to her Organizaional Communication undergraduate class Nikki Saldivar Hodgson served as Guest Coach for a Texas State football game Jeremy Hutchins has been elected Vice President of Texas Speech Communication Association 6 | November and December 2023 | College News COMMUNICATION STUDIES Communication Studies, Health Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Leadership Studies, Organizational Communication, Persuasive Communication, Political Communication, & Teacher Certif ication in Communication Studies