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Department of Communication

 

Registration and Pre-Registration

Graduate students wishing to register for classes must email Dr. Carr with a list of classes they intend to take. After Dr. Carr approves these classes, you then must register via my.ipfw.edu.

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Travel Grants to Present Conference Papers

Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Grants

The Travel Grant Program is sponsored by the Purdue Graduate Student Government and is open to Purdue graduate students on all Purdue campuses. Application forms and other information are available from Purdue Graduate Student Government .

 IPFW

There are, generally, matching funds available from the Department of Communication, the College of Arts and Scieneces, the Office of Research and External Support, and the IPFW Office of Graduate Studies (through its IPFW OGS Travel Grant). In order to be eligible for these, you need to send the following via email to Dr. Carr at least 60 days in advance of departure:

  • Your name and student status at the time of the conference (only current students will be considered)
  • Your role at the conference (presenting a paper, member of a panel, etc.)
  • The title of your presentation and/or the title of the conference panel in which your presentation will occur
  • The date and time of your presentation
  • The name of the conference you are attending (including dates, location, etc.)
  • Your anticipated dates of travel, including your departure and return
  • Evidence of acceptance in the form of a conference program and/or acceptance letter from the conference organizers
  • The date you submitted an application for the Purdue Graduate Student Government Grant; or, a brief explanation of why you do not plan to apply for this or other outside funds first
  • Your estimated expenses for the conference, including airfare, roundtrip mileage, parking, hotel, conference registration, membership dues, and per diem.

IPFW will do its best to match any outside funding received, including the Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Grant. Especially in cases where there are no matching funds, we cannot guarantee to cover all of your expenses. For evidence of acceptance, a URL of the conference program; or, a PDF or email copy of an acceptance letter should be sufficient. In preparing your estimated expenses including federal mileage rates and per diems, please consult Accounting Services.

Graduate Student Accomplishments

2004

Publications and Submissions

  • Paper submitted for publication: Simpson, J. & Causey, A. Talking about real things: Students’ perspective on addressing race in the classroom.” To Communication Education.

Conference Presentations

  • Cashdollar, J., Causey, A. and Kuhlhorst, M. (2004) panel entitled “Cultural Studies, Media Literacy, and Critical Race Theory: Toward Faculty, Student, and Course Transformation.” at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, from April 23-25.
  • Causey, A. (2004). Strategies for student engagement in the context of diverse issues and perspectives” presented at Pedagogies of Engagement Conference of the Association of American colleges and Universities in Chicago, IL.
  • Dixson, M.D. , Kuhlhorst, M., & Reiff, A. (2004) “Creating effective online discussions: Instructor and student roles” presented at National Communication Association in Chicago, IL.
  • Dixson,M.D., Bermes, E., & Fair, S. (2004) “ An Instrument to Investigate Expectations About and Experiences of the Parent-Child Relationship presented at National Communication Association in Chicago, IL.
  • Szczepanski, S. (2004). "Business as Usual: Online Persuasive Tactics Utilized by Sudan's Ministry of Investment" to the Globalization and Popular Culture group of the annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Cultural Association and Midwest American Culture Association Convent in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 8-10, 2004.

Other Scholarly Activities

  • Causey, A. presented results of 2003 research on race in the classroom to IPFW Diversity Council, Sept. 2004.
  • Melissa Dietrich worked with Dr. Jane Banks summer, 2004 on Multicultural Services Summer Youth Outreach program on Media Literacy and Communication.
  • Showalter, K., Wells, K., Haines, R., and Eracleous, H. worked on a project investigating the role of communication in enacting citizenship in Dr. Hess' course. Briefly, based on Robert Asen's, "A Discourse Theory of Citizenship" {QJS, May, 2004} the students analyzed their efforts in hosting, facilitating, and participating as a participant observer of the 2004 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates. A submission of a panel of papers by graduate students is being prepared.

2005

Publications and Submissions

  • Shaffer, L. (2005). Review of Spaces of intercultural communication: An interdisciplinary introduction to communication, culture, and globalizing/localizing identifites. In Review of Communication.

Conference Presentations

  • Graf, Henry. (2005) “Simulacrum and Postmodern Christendom” to be presented at Central States Communication Association Conference in Kansas City, MO.