Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D09985
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This paper abstract is maintained in ACDC storage As part of Document Number D09983, From the files of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Pages 25-61 in Workshop on communications linkages between national programs and international agricultural organizations. Cali, Colombia, April 14-18,1986.
Raises eight questions for ACE members: " 1) Are we glorified clerks or are we scientists? 2) What are desirable forms of publication and information materials? Scientists are demanding longer bulletins. The public is calling for shorter. 3) What should be the professional training of men and women to become agricultural and home editors? One school suggests that all that is needed in our fields is a certain facility -- we are engaged in a science -- home scientists measure success by acceptance in AP and UP. 4) Is there opportunity for research in the field of farm and home editing? 5) What is to be the future of agriculture and what leadership will the college of agriculture, the experiment stations, and the USDA be called upon to give? Together with our institutions, we must begin long-time planning. 6) What place has and will the radio have in carrying to the people the results of research? 7) How shall we measure results in our field? 8) What are we going to do about it?"
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.
Whiting, Larry R. (author / Agricultural Communication, Ohio State University)
Format:
Presentation
Publication Date:
2005-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22334
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Acceptance speech for Professional Award of the International Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) at the annual conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 2005. 2 pages., Identifies some contemporary issues involving agricultural communications programs (academic and communications support) in land-grant universities.
