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This article reports on the latest developments in speech associations and communication discipline in the U.S. as of 1985. American Theatre Association convention will take place in Toronto Sheraton Centre in Ontario, while the National Forensic League will be held in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has received two grants. They include a three-year $220, 000 grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to develop graduate programs in electronic communications and a three-year grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Collegiate Education to develop a similar program for undergraduates. James Roever has been appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph, while Philip Amato, professor at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, has been named chairman of the Department of Computer Applications. Beginning in the Fall 1985, Clarkson University in Postdam, New Work, will offer a Master of Business Administration degree to communication majors. The program is intended primarily as a terminal degree for students wishing to enter the workforce. |
