Public Service

Service to the Academic Profession

Department Goal: Serve the academic profession by carrying out professional journal editorial functions, organizational service, consultancies, and other activities.

Our faculty are on five editorial boards.

One faculty member served as the editor of an international journal.

One faculty member served as the editor of a special edition of a national juried publication.

Two faculty members have a monthly column in a state professional newsletter. These columns have been reprinted in regional and national publications.

One faculty member was president of a local professional society.

Our faculty are vice presidents of two local professional societies.

One faculty member was a chair of a division of our national professional organization.

One faculty member was on the board of directors of an international professional association.

One faculty member chairs a division of our national professional organization.

Our faculty are conducting a demographic and psychographic examination of the academic life of communication professionals that is sanctioned and partially funded by our national organization.

Service to the Region

Department Goal: Serve the region through special programs, seminars and/or workshops, consultantships, teacher-training institutes, grant programs, and other intellectual and cultural activities.

One faculty member was the executive producer of 50+ Public Television, half-hour shows.

The faculty consulted professionally with 20 separate organizations.

One faculty member offered the campus a short-course on accountability.

Our faculty offered the campus and the community six theatrical productions.

One faculty member offered organizations a workshop on producing newsletters.

The department created a Professional Advisory Committee to serve as a conduit for feedback and information between the faculty and the professional community.

One faculty member produced weekly Johnson City Council Meetings aired weekly on television.

Service to the Health Sciences

Department Goal: Work with health sciences to provide support courses, programs, faculty collaboration, and other connections needed to enhance this aspect of ETSU’s institutional mission.

The Department of Communicative Disorders terminated their undergraduate major. The department worked with the Department of Communicative Disorders to develop a new concentration in speech communication that would accommodate the undergraduate students who would typically major in Communicative Disorders. The Department of Communication completed the curriculum change process that allowed for the accommodation of students interested in preparing for a graduate program in Communicative Disorders.

One faculty member worked with the College of Medicine to develop a course in Medical Reporting.

One faculty member worked with the College of Medicine in developing the oral competencies of its students.