Ed.D. in higher education (mass communication teaching specialization), Texas Tech University, 1984.

M.A. in Journalism (minor in history), University of North Texas, 1977.

Bachelor of Journalism (minor in history), University of Missouri at Columbia, 1971.

August 1987 to present: Department of Mass Communication at University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly University of Louisiana at Monroe). Promoted to professor effective fall 1996 semester. I currently teach a three-course load per semester and serve as major adviser to about five graduate students. I was head of the department from August 1989 to August 1995; my duties included preparing and conducting faculty searches, preparing and managing the departmental budget, developing curriculum, evaluating faculty and program effectiveness, strategic planning, writing grants, advising students, overseeing the operations of the Office of Student Publications, and monitoring the student internship program. I coordinated and wrote the department's self-study in preparation for a site team visit from the Accrediting Council on Education for Journalism and Mass Communications in November 1993. The department subsequently has been accredited since 1994.

June 26 to August 1, 1996: Visiting Professor in Communications, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu.

August 1984 to July 1987: Associate professor and director of journalism, Department of Communication/Theatre Arts, Texas A&I University, Kingsville. As director of the division of journalism, I taught all undergraduate journalism courses and supervised the student newspaper. I was responsible for curriculum development, student advising, facilities planning, and administration of the student publications budget. I directed annual regional University Interscholastic League journalism workshops and competitions for high school students.

August 1980 to May 1984: Assistant professor of journalism, Department of Mass Communications, Texas Tech University, Lubbock. I taught the introductory news writing classes and labs plus a section of the introductory survey course in mass media.

August 1977 to June 1980: Director of student publications and instructor of journalism, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas. I taught three courses per semester, supervised and administered budgets of the student newspaper and yearbook, directed annual yearbook workshops for high school students, and produced an annual recruiting tabloid for the School of Arts and Sciences. I also co-produced a weekly student-directed newscast over a local access channel provided by the local cable television franchisee.

August 1976 to July 1977: Business writer for the Denton (Texas) Record Chronicle. I developed business news, produced a weekly business and industry page, and wrote general assignment stories and features.

August 1975 to May 1977: Teaching assistant in the Department of Journalism, University of North Texas, Denton. I worked in the reporting lab and taught undergraduate sections in the history of journalism, broadcast news, and introduction to mass media.

May 1973 to August 1975: Editor for Times-Chronicle Newspapers in northern Dallas County and southern Denton County, Texas. My first position was as managing editor of a new daily newspaper in Lewisville. After six months I was promoted to managing editor of the five-paper chain, and in the summer of 1974 I was promoted to executive editor. In addition to reporting, editing, and writing editorials and columns, I developed editorial policy, hired editorial staff, administered the departmental budget, and supervised a staff of nine reporters. The newspapers won top regional awards for excellence from the Dallas Press Club in 1974 and 1975.

December 1971 to April 1973: Reporter, wire editor and layout editor, Alice (Texas) Echo-News. Duties included city and county government reporting, news selection and editing from UPI wires, page makeup, photography, and various story assignments.

April 1969 to February 1970: Volunteer social worker and ESL instructor with the Pearl Buck Foundation, Sosa, Korea, and clerical worker with the U.S. Army Safety Office in Seoul, Korea. I worked with Korean staff members in providing support services to Amerasian children while with the Pearl Buck Foundation, and assisted the U.S. Army Safety officer in ensuring worker compliance with environmental safety regulations.

United States Army, June 1966 to February 1969. Military occupation specialty was communications center specialist. I received a top secret/cryptography clearance from the National Security Agency. I saw duty in Okinawa and Korea, reached the rank of sergeant E-5, and received an honorable discharge.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1991-97

Kappa Tau Alpha (national honorary society in journalism)

Louisiana Communication Association

Public Relations Association of Louisiana

Southern States Communication Association

Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication

President-elect of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, 1997-98. This is a progressive elected office: I served as vice-president for 1997-98 and will be president for 1999-2000. I was a member of the Executive Committee of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, 1995-97.

Member of the Faculty Senate at University of Louisiana at Monroe, 1998-present. Committees: chair, newsletter committee; member, faculty welfare committee and elections committee. I represented the ULM Faculty Senate and, by authorization of the Faculty Advisory Council to the Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana system, all faculty senates in the University of Louisiana system before the State Legislature in a successful campaign to amend the Optional Retirement Plan for Louisiana university faculty and administrators during the 1998-99 legislative session.

Chair of the Graduate Directors Interest Group of the Southern States Communication Association, 1997-98; chairman of By-Laws Committee for the Public Relations Division, 1996-97; Membership Committee chair of the PR Division, 1997-present; and member of 1997 convention planning committee for SSCA.

Member of the Community College Transfer Committee of the Association for Schools in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1996-97.

Teaching Standards Co-Chairman, Newspaper Division of AEJMC, 1995-96

State Executive Board member, Public Relations Association of Louisiana, 1993

National Press Foundation Seminar, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1981.

Fellow in Media Management, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Florida, July 9-19, 1989.

Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Newsroom Management Seminar, Houston, Texas, July 15-18, 1990.

American Press Institute Journalism Educators Seminar, Reston, Virginia, October 1991.

Journalism Creative Teaching Award, Texas Tech University, 1982.

Alpha Lambda Delta Outstanding Teacher, University of Louisiana--Monroe, 1988.

"Louisiana Press Reaction to the State Debt Issue, 1977-1982: A Study in Public Opinion Formation by Three Newspapers." Presented to the Western Social Science Association, Denver, Colorado, 1976.

An Analysis of Community Attitudes Toward the Bowie News as a News-Advertising Medium. Masters thesis, University of North Texas, 1977.

"Reacting to Thornburgh's criticism of J-school education: Pro." Presstime, April 1981.

"Journalism Deans Show Congruent Attitudes Toward School Curriculum, Organization." Presented to the Southwest Symposium of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, October, 1982, and published in Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, the journal of the symposium.

Perceptions by Administrators, Educators, and Media Professionals of Factors Determining Mass Communications Curriculum Development. Doctoral dissertation, Texas Tech University, 1984.

"Perceptions Among Educators and Media Professionals of Factors Influencing Mass Communications Curricula," presented to the Southwest Symposium of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, October 1984.

Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism: Biographies of James P. Newcomb, William P. Hobby, George B. Dealey, and Joseph McCarthy. Joseph P. McKerns, Editor. Greenwood Press, 1989.

"Slide-Tape Shows Provide Community Service While Helping Students Develop Professional Skills." Presented to the Southwest Symposium of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism & Mass Communication, Tempe, Arizona, October 1989.

"Frank Putnam of Houston: The Progressive Journalist as Partner in Urban Development." Presented to the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Gainesville, Florida, March 1995.

"Free Press, Fair Trial and the O.J. Simpson Case," presented to the Southern States Communication Association annual convention in New Orleans, April 6, 1995.

"A Descriptive Study of Selected Trends and Practices on Student Newspapers in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana," presented to the Southwest Symposium of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, San Angelo, Texas, October 1-2, 1995.

"Houston's Frank Putnam: A Forgotten Champion of Progressive Reform," published in the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, vol. 11, no. 2 (1996); previously selected as a top three paper at the Southwest Symposium of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, San Angelo, Texas, October 1-2, 1995.

The Southeastern Journalism Conference at Ten: An Agenda for the Next Decade. Invited monograph presented to the Southeastern Journalism Conference annual conference, February 24, 1996, in Jackson, Mississippi.

"Teaching Theory Through Hypertext: A Lesson Plan for Introducing Computer Searching Skills," presented to the Southern States Communication Association annual convention, Memphis, Tennessee, March 30, 1996.

"Teamwork in the Pacific Rim," Panel paper and presentation to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention, Anaheim, California, August 12, 1996.

"Trends, Practices and Perceptions of the Organizational Culture at Southern Collegiate Publications," presented to the Southeastern Journalism Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, February 20-22, 1997.

"The Hero as Mediated Reality in Political Communication: The Ascendance of Everyman" presented to the Southern States Communication Association annual convention, Savannah, Georgia, April 3, 1997.

Book review, In Contempt of Congress (Praeger, 1996), for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Spring 1997 (Vol. 74, No. 1).

"A Study of the Organizational Culture in a Southern Graduate Program" (co-authored with S. Whitfield), presented to the Southern States Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, Texas, April 3, 1998.

"Marching into the Millennium: Public Relations and the 21st Century (with T. Walters, L. Walters & Xiaoan Wang), presented to the 41st annual conference of the Western States Social Science Association, Fort Worth, Texas, April 23, 1999.

"Public Spectacles, Private Acts: Bill Clinton's Successful Apologia of Transcendence and Redemption" (co-authored with S. Whitfield). published in the Louisiana Communication Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (summer 1999).

Project Administrator, U. S. government grant to operate visitors center at U.S Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1989 - 90.

Project Administrator and co-author, public awareness grant for Track-A-Tot program, developed for Region VIII Interagency Coordinating Council in Northeast Louisiana, October 1989 through May 1990.

Author and administrator, $5,000 Gannett Foundation library enhancement grant, November 1990.

Author, $20,000 grant from the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission to develop a Safety Restraint Compliance Campaign, July 1991 (for the period October 1, 1991 through September 30, 1992.

Author and Coordinator, Research grant from KNOE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana, to conduct focus groups of audience attitudes toward television news, fall 1994.

University of Louisiana at Monroe Faculty Development Grant (research) for $2,450, awarded for calendar year 1999.

Research paper referee for Southeast Journalism Colloquium and history and newspaper divisions of AEJMC, ongoing since 1991.

Moderator, research paper session, AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Stone Mountain, Georgia., March 28, 1992.

Lead, Emerging Technologies panel, and moderator for two paper sessions, AEJMC annual convention, Montreal, Quebec, August 5-8, 1992.

Research panel moderator, AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 12-13, 1993.

Panelist, Southeastern Journalism Conference, Monroe, Louisiana, February 1994.

Respondent, paper session on emerging technologies, University of Southwestern Louisiana Communications Mini-conference, December 4, 1994.

Moderator for Newspaper Division research paper session and participant in roundtable discussion concerning the Louisiana Board of Regents' mandate requiring accreditation of journalism and mass communication programs, AEJMC annual convention, Washington, D.C., 1995.

Editorial reviewer for American Journalism, published by the history division of AEJMC, 1995.

Judge for refereed paper submissions to newspaper and history divisions of AEJMC for 1996 convention.

Moderator for two panels at 1996 SSCA convention in Memphis, Tennessee.

Host to 1996 Southwest Symposium of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication at Monroe, Louisiana, November. 8-9, 1996.

Moderator, graduate student paper session, University of Southwestern Louisiana Communications Mini-conference, December 6, 1997.

Coordinator, History Papers Competition, Southeast Colloquium of AEJMC, March 12-14, 1998, and moderator of a newspaper division research paper session.

Moderator, research panel, University of Southwestern Louisiana Communications Mini-conference, December 1998.

Moderator, panel on foreign correspondence, Southeastern Journalism Conference, Lafayette, Louisiana, February 27, 1999.

Pre-publication/revision reviewer for various texts, including the following:

Communications Today, a proposed text by Worth Publishing Co. (1991);

Public Opinion (proposed sixth edition), by Bernard Hennessey, Brooks/Cole, 1994; Creative Editing for Print Media by Dorothy A. Bowles and Diana L. Borden, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998;

Mass Media Research: an Introduction, by Roger D. Wimmer and Joseph R. Dominick, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998;

Writing and Reporting News (A Coaching Method) by Carole Rich, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998;

Reporting for the Media by Fred Fedler, et. al., Harcourt Brace and Co., 1999.

Chairman of the College of Liberal Arts Computer Utilization Committee, 1988-89.

ULM representative to the Association for Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1991 to 1997.

Chairman of the Publicity Committee, Downtown Development Council of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce, 1992-1993.

Member of the Downtown Monroe Lions Club, 1994 to present.

Faculty Adviser, Delta Sigma Phi social fraternity, 1992-97.

Media affairs analyst, KNOE-TV, when requested.

Elections Correspondent, Associated Press, 1989 to present; correspondent for Voters News Service, 1996.

Adviser, ULM chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha, 1987 to present; ULM chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, 1989-91 and 1997-1998.

Chairman, School of Communication Graduate Studies Committee, 1995-97.

Member of the College of Liberal Arts Promotion Committee, 1997, and member of the School of Communication tenure and promotion committees, ongoing.