NCA Public Relations Division 2011 Annual Business Meeting Friday, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

NCA Public Relations Division 2011 Annual Business Meeting Friday, November 18, 11 a.m. Presiding: Katerina Tsetsura, U of Oklahoma

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

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unanimously  Clarification within job-listings with regard to the presence/absence of domestic partner benefits  Withdrawn  Communication Currents : Global Outreach  Financially NCA is in a good standing (independent audit)

Chair’s Report  Budget  Sponsorship  Networking and Social Events  Task Forces  Bylaws  Communication Channels  Paper Reviewing Procedures  Graduate Student Involvement

Membership Determined as of January 1  2009 = 447  2010 = 458  2011 = 496

Budget: 2011-2012 Revenues Expenses  $410 (NCA)  $391.04 (PRIDE)  $600 (Plank Center)  $600 (T op Student Papers)  $500 (U of Tennessee)  $ 55 (Networking Social) Total: $463.96 Fiscal year: July 1-June 30 2010-2011revenue from NCA: $370

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

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

Vice- Chair’s Report  2011 Program  Papers submitted: 72  Papers accepted: 33  Rate: 46%  Panels submitted: 12  Panels accepted: 4  Rate: 33%

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

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

PRIDE Awards

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

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

2011 Top Student Paper Awards Applying Dialogic Public Relations Theory to 1. Public Relations Education Joshua Bentley, University of Oklahoma Online Crisis Communication: A Comparative 2. Study Vaibhavi Kulkarni, Rutgers University Public Relations and Public Diplomacy: A New 3. Look at Publics, Communication, Political Complexity, and Management Leysan Khakimova, University of Maryland

Special Committees Communication among Members  Volunteers needed  Graduate Student Involvement  Volunteers needed  Paper Reviewing Guidelines 

Action Items  Proposed Paper Reviewing Guidelines  Officer Elections  Vice-Chair Elect  PRIDE Committee members (4)  Nominating Committee members (2)  Bylaws Update

Research Chair Nominees  Carl Botan  Damion Waymer  Maureen Taylor

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?

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.

THE FOLLOWING SLIDES IS A REPORT SUMMARY ON ACTIONS/ITEMS

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 on 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.

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 of 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.

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

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 off-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.