Deadline for proposals: March 13
Using a name like "Speech Communication" to describe our discipline sometimes hides the multiple coursework and faculty backgrounds that make up our departments As a professor in a "Speech Communication" department you may be teaching public speaking and/or you might be teaching students in speech pathology and audiology, mass communication and journalism, business and corporate communications. Your "Speech Communication" department might include faculty with backgrounds in broadcasting, theatre, and/or technology who teach courses from the communications arts tradition at the same time that they teach in their own specialty areas. CLASP chose the theme of this year's colloquium "Speech Communication: The Umbrella Discipline" to celebrate the diversity of courses, faculty, and departments that fall under a name like "Speech Communication."
The "umbrella" theme also fits nicely with the announcement that CLASP will be heading up the University Faculty Senate Speech Communication Discipline Council. At this year's colloquium, we will discuss this new avenue for expressing our concerns and begin the process of finding faculty representatives for the Discipline Council.
Nothing is more recognizable, and essential, to New Yorkers than an umbrella. The Speech Communication Umbrella represents the extensive range and number of courses we cover collectively at our campuses. This Speech Communication Umbrella brings faculty together beneath its reach who might not otherwise connect so that they can draw from one another's experience and knowledge. Finally, the Speech Communication Umbrella makes it possible for us to have an impact on the countless ways that communication is done within the classrooms and offices in New York City and beyond. So won't you consider joining us on April 1, 2011 at Baruch College to explore our discipline's diversity?