/news-archive/tag/leadership-lecture/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/03/27/applied-communication-department-host-alumni-reunion-awards-ceremony-leadership-lecture-april-19/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:00:41 +0000 /news/?p=69906 ... Applied Communication Department to host alumni reunion, awards ceremony, and leadership lecture April 19]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Applied Communication will host its first alumni reunion and awards ceremony in conjunction with its final leadership lecture for 2017-18 on Thursday, April 19. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock campus and local community members are invited to attend the festivities to help celebrate the work of faculty, staff, students, and alumni over the past year. To kick off the evening, alumni and students will gather for a meet and greet at 5 p.m. in the upper concourse of the Donaghey Student Center. A Mexican fiesta buffet will be served. Following the reunion, the awards ceremony will commence from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Several awards, including the Distinguished Student Scholar Award, Alumni Making a Difference Award, and the Community Partner Award, will be presented to students, alumni, and community members for their contributions to the department both in and outside of the classroom. Donations to support the Dr. Allan Ward Student Success Endowed Scholarship will be accepted prior to and during the evening鈥檚 events. To wrap up the night, Dr. Andrew Pyle, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock alumnus and assistant professor of communication at Clemson University, will give the final lecture in the 2017-18 Leadership Lecture Series. His presentation, 鈥淔ostering Positive Communication to Prevent Self-Inflicted Crises,鈥� will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. During his talk, Pyle will draw from concepts and ideas found in his recent work, which examines the ability of organizations to induce self-inflicted crises due to lack of preparation, preventative measures, and poor organizational culture. His topic will cover the successes and failures of self-inflicted crisis management and the practices organizations could implement to cultivate positive communication in their establishments. Lecture attendees are encouraged to bring a $20 donation, and students a $5 donation with their identification cards. Parking will be available in the University Parking Deck. For more information, contact Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter, department chair and professor in the Department of Applied Communication, at axchathamca@ualr.edu, or to click here to purchase tickets.  ]]> /news-archive/2018/02/14/dr-gerald-driskill-lead-upcoming-leadership-lecture-feb-22/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:20:37 +0000 /news/?p=69339 ... Dr. Gerald Driskill to lead upcoming Leadership Lecture, Feb. 22]]> Join the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Applied Communication for its upcoming Leadership Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 22, led by Dr. Gerald Driskill, graduate program coordinator of the department. The lecture will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Donaghey Student Center Room G. Members of the Little Rock community are invited to attend and are encouraged to bring a $20 donation. The cost for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty, staff, and students is $5 with their identification cards. To kick off the evening, Driskill will begin with the discussion of his topic, 鈥淟eadership and Community Transformation: Co-Creating Counter Narratives.鈥� His goal is to bring to life a perspective that counters the norm of individualism and non-cooperation in the American culture. 鈥淐ounter narratives in literature focus in on stories that correct missing, incomplete, inaccurate, or even damaged stories,鈥� Driskill stated. 鈥淪o, for example, one colleague of mine has been doing work in rural communities with the narratives about poverty. The narratives about how to get out of poverty are often missing, inaccurate. People have their stereotypes and prejudice against someone in poverty. Some of their work was about creating counter narratives and being able to empower those community members to share those stories and live those stories, to show there are pathways that we can navigate, and that it鈥檚 not impossible to identify positive stories of change within such communities.鈥� Driskill earned his master鈥檚 degree in human communication from Abilene Christian University and Ph.D. in communications studies from the University of Kansas. He is the co-author of 鈥淥rganizational Culture in Action: A Cultural Analysis Workbook,鈥� and has published articles in the Journal of Applied Communication, Communication Studies, Communication Teacher, and the Journal of Communication and Religion. For more information, check out Driskill鈥檚 interview about the lecture, or to register for the event, click here. ]]>