Outlines successful strategies for encouraging parents to stay involved in their children's education: (1) increasing communication; (2) improving participation; (3) encouraging cooperation; and (4) developing partnerships. (LMI)

Addresses the issue of the history of scholastic journalism. Profiles the Florida Scholastic Press Association, an organization of more than 400 student publications and broadcast programs, dedicated to educating, training, and supporting scholastic journalists and advisers. Describes publicity efforts to recognize such an organization. (PA)

Analyzes the rhetorical strategies of the direct action AIDS organization ACT UP using Kenneth Burke's concept of the comic frame. Suggests conditions under which other despised and oppressed groups may respond after having been scapegoated by society. (PA)

Effective communication among stakeholders in public administration internship programs (students, academic institutions, faculty supervisors, host institution supervisors, employers, professional and accrediting associations) increases the likelihood that all will emerge from the experience as winners. The core of this communication is the…

Describes the theory of image restoration discourse as an approach for understanding corporate crisis situations. States this theory can be used by practitioners to help design messages during crises and by critics or educators to critically evaluate such messages. Describes and illustrates the theory's basic concepts. Offers suggestions for…

Notes that organizational communication and organizational learning share a common focus on how message processing occurs in institutional settings and how they affect and are affected by people and relationships. Proposes that the assessment of organizational learning represents an assessment of a subset of communication processes in an…

Discusses two themes developed by recent theoretical work in organizational identification. Contributes to scholarship and practice by illustrating the multiplicity and duality of identification, by introducing a procedure to assess multiple identity structures simultaneously, and by calling attention to the influence of activity patterns in…

This article draws upon ongoing lessons for dealing with campus emergencies from a series of incidents, some high-profile, that occurred at the University of California, Santa Barbara, during the 2000-2001 academic year. (Contains 12 references.) (Author)

Suggests that active learning can benefit students in public relations and integrated communication courses at the graduate level. Describes how three active learning approaches--research and field work, student accountabilities for learning, and student reflection and reflexive exercises--were used in a graduate class project to help a Fortune 50…

Presents a communications model based on the conduit metaphor and examines elements of the model from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Suggests reasons why managers may not be convinced that miscommunication is an important organizational problem. Outlines a research program and explores pedagogical implications of the model. (KEH)

Investigates the persuasive communication of male and female middle managers, focusing on the mediating influence of a manager's power on his or her selection of anticipated compliance-gaining message strategies. Finds no marked differences between the genders in the types of strategies and tactics used to influence subordinates. (KEH)

Analyzes and reviews research related to interviewer and applicant questioning processes in the employment interview. Examines (1) constraints and antecedent factors associated with asking questions in the interview; (2) characteristics of interview questions; (3) and the consequences or outcomes of questioning. Discusses pragmatic implications…

Examines a descriptive model of communication relationships between members of collectives to determine whether perceptions are the result of formal structure, collective interests, or individual interests. Finds structures of perceived communication relationships are similar across organizations, whereas structures in observable communication are…

Asserts that, because bargaining occurs on two levels--the level of the issues to be addressed and the level of the bargaining event itself--it presents a fascinating arena for applying Weick's organizing model. Applies concepts of organizing, equivocality, requisite variety, enactment, and retrospective meaning to the definition, characteristics,…

Uses Karl Weick's view of organizing and traditional rhetorical theory to explore (1) how private organizations need public space within them; (2) how organizations affect the public sphere and are affected by that sense of the public; and (3) how organizational and rhetorical theorists might join in understanding the "privatizing" of…