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NCA Public Relations Division
2011 Annual Business Meeting Friday, November 18, 11 a.m. Presiding: Katerina Tsetsura, U of Oklahoma
SLIDE 2 Agenda
Approval of 2010 business meeting minutes Reports: Officers and Standing Committees Top papers and PRIDE Awards Reports: Special Committees Action Items:
Convention Paper Guidelines:
NCA PRD Statement of Principles for Reviewing Papers
Elections of Officers Bylaws Update
Announcements
SLIDE 3 Chair’s Report: Legislative Assembly
Three Resolutions:
Representing the Discipline and/or NCA Publicly
Passed with revisions
Public Policy Platform
Passed unanimously
Clarification within job-listings with regard to the
presence/absence of domestic partner benefits
Withdrawn
Communication Currents: Global Outreach Financially NCA is in a good standing (independent audit)
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Chair’s Report
Budget Sponsorship Networking and Social Events Task Forces
Bylaws Communication Channels Paper Reviewing Procedures Graduate Student Involvement
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Membership
Determined as of January 1
2009 = 447 2010 = 458 2011 = 496
SLIDE 6 Fiscal year: July 1-June 30 2010-2011revenue from NCA: $370
Revenues Expenses
$410 (NCA) $600 (Plank Center) $500 (U of Tennessee)
Total: $463.96
$391.04 (PRIDE) $600 (T
$ 55 (Networking Social)
Budget: 2011-2012
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THANK YOU!
Risk, Health & Crisis Communication Research Unit University of T
ennessee, College of Communication and Information School of Advertising and Public Relations
Networking Social Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations University of Alabama Top Student Paper awards
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2011 Highlights
Updated Bylaws Diversified communication channels Developed Paper Reviewing Guidelines Started the graduate student involvement initiative Organized social/networking gatherings Connected with other units
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Vice-Chair’s Report
2011 Program Papers submitted: 72 Papers accepted: 33 Rate: 46% Panels submitted: 12 Panels accepted: 4 Rate: 33%
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Vice Chair Elect: 2012 NCA
2012 - Orlando
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotels Thursday, November 15 - Sunday, November 18, 2012
2013 - Washington, D.C.
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel/Omni Shoreham Hotel Thursday, November 21 - Sunday, November 24, 2013
2014 - Chicago
Hilton Chicago/Palmer House Hilton Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2014
2015 - Las Vegas
Rio Hotel Thursday, November 19 - Sunday, November 22, 2015
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Nominating Committee
ELECTIONS 2011:
Vice Chair-Elect
Four Members of the PRIDE Committee Two Members of the Nominating Committee ELECTIONS 2012: Vice Chair-Elect Secretary (a three-year term) Four Members of the PRIDE Committee Two Members of the Nominating Committee
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PRIDE Awards
SLIDE 13 PRIDE Awards
Best Article: Sommerfeldt, E., &
Taylor, M. (2011). A social capital approach to improving public relations’ efficacy: Diagnosing internal constraints on external
- communication. Public Relations Review, 37, 197-206.
Best PR Book: Ihlen, O, Bartlett, J., & May, S. (2011).
The Handbook of Communication & Corporate Social Responsibility.
Best Textbook: Stacks, D. & Michaelson, D.(2010). A
Practitioner’s Guide to Public Relations Research, Measurement, and Evaluation
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2011 Top Paper Awards
2011 Robert Heath Top Paper Award:
BP’s ‘Voices from the Gulf’ and the Stories They T ell: A Case Study of Neo-PR Authors: Chris T Caldiero, Fairleigh Dickinson University Kathleen C. Haspel, Fairleigh Dickinson University
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2011 Top Student Paper Awards
1.
Applying Dialogic Public Relations Theory to Public Relations Education Joshua Bentley, University of Oklahoma
2.
Online Crisis Communication: A Comparative Study Vaibhavi Kulkarni, Rutgers University
3.
Public Relations and Public Diplomacy: A New Look at Publics, Communication, Political Complexity, and Management Leysan Khakimova, University of Maryland
SLIDE 16 Special Committees
Communication among Members
Volunteers needed
Graduate Student Involvement
Volunteers needed
Paper Reviewing Guidelines
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Action Items
Proposed Paper Reviewing Guidelines Officer Elections Vice-Chair Elect PRIDE Committee members (4) Nominating Committee members (2) Bylaws Update
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Research Chair Nominees
Carl Botan Damion Waymer Maureen Taylor
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Announcements
Mark Fernando, Senior Manager, Communications, NCA: New NCA Website and General Updates Bey-Ling Sha: ICA PRD Grunig and Grunig Dissertation Award PR Journal’s Special Issue on Diversity Others?
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ADDITIONAL INFO
The Executive Committee asks every Division member to
stay engaged with the division. Look forward to coming to Orlando and participating in our sessions.
Please consider a possibility to bring to our panels some
practitioners who are local to Orlando who might be willing to come to the conference to talk about an applied nature of public relations as a means of building better relationships between us academics and practitioners.
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THE FOLLOWING SLIDES IS A REPORT SUMMARY ON ACTIONS/ITEMS
SLIDE 22 At Glance: What PRD has done in 2011 (Chair: Tsetsura)
Task Forces
Bylaws: we updated and revised; bylaws and introduced at the 2011
business meeting; we prepared the final version for vote at the 2012 business meeting.
Communication Channels: we established new communication
channels (Gmail, LinkedIn group, T witter), created e-lists of members
- n Gmail account and are in transition from the
VT listserv to Gmail and eventually the NCA–based listserv.
Paper Reviewing Procedures: Task Force developed and wrote the
statement of principles and Paper Review procedures and proposed to create a new position of Research Chair. All items were approved at the meeting.
Graduate Student Involvement: Task Force was created with students
from Biola U and U of T ennessee to create a FB page for PRD graduate students. The standing committee on involvement of graduate students will continue to explore possibilities in 2012.
SLIDE 23 At Glance: What PRD has done in 2011 (Chair: Tsetsura)
PRD Executive Committee discussed and updated the PR
Division description on the NCA website.
Introduced in 2010 by then Vice Chair Tsetsura, a social
and networking gathering for academics and practitioners was organized for the second time by PRD at the 2011 national convention.
PRD was able to secure the sponsorship from Risk,
Health & Crisis Communication Research Unit University
- f Tennessee for the off-site PRD social get together for
local academics and practitioners at the 2011 national convention.
We continued our strong ties with other Divisions by
submitting collaborative panel proposals and co- sponsoring panels with other Divisions.
SLIDE 24 REPORT ON ITEMS APPROVED/Discussed
2010 business meeting minutes approved Reports: Officers and Standing Committees Top papers and PRIDE Awards Reports: Special Committees Action Items:
Establishment of Research Chair Officer: APPROVED
Elected to the position: Maureen Taylor, U of Oklahoma
NCA PRD Statement of Principles for Reviewing
Papers APPROVED
Elections of Officers: DONE Bylaws Update:
TABLED UNTIL 2012
Announcements
SLIDE 25 RESULT OF DISCUSSIONS and OTHER ITEMS
Shari Veil, Vice Chair-Elect, volunteered to lead the
taskforce for organizing our PRD social with Division members and local PR practitioners at the 2012 NCA
- convention. She will work closely with U of Central
Florida folks (Coombs and Holladay) on organizing this
- ff-site social in Orlando
Vorvoreanu and Tsetsura will continue to work on
transferring the listserv to Gmail and eventually to the NCA-based service.
The Executive Committee will continue to involve
graduate students in life of the Division.
