Announces the beginning of NPAC "the day after Labor Day" at Michigan State University, with Stanley Andrews as executive director. Provides biographies of Andrews and new associate director, Frank Byrnes.
Akers, Cindy (author), Doerfert, David (author), West, Lindsay, M. (author), Davis, Chad (author), Fraze, Steven (author), and Burris, Scott (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-02-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25602
Notes:
Retrieved March 19, 2007, Presented to the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Annual Meeting, Mobile, Alabama, February 3-6, 2007. 14 pages.
Recommendations from the Professional Development Committee of AAACE. They include sabbatical leaves, exchange appointments, short-term media experience (unpaid leave from college position). "Members of the association were emphatic in their statement that editors should be given the same privileges of sabbatical leave as other college workers and that they should develop their jobs and positions so that they would have a rank equivalent to that of any professorship on the campus."
Summary of findings from a survey among agricultural communicators on professional work, interests, educational background, training needs and qualifications for training others.
