Category Archives: Strategic Communications

Professor Cai teaches gender communication and leadership skills to diplomats

Professor Deborah Cai, chair of the Strategic Communication Department, was one of the trainers for a three-day training program for Afghan and Italian diplomats on gender communication and leadership. The program was sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry and the training program was conducted by Women’s Campaign International in Rome.

More than 20 Italian and Afghan diplomats, both men and women, participated in the training. Cai, along with Susan Ness, a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission; Kerri Kennedy, executive director of Women’s Campaign International; and U.S. Ambassador Meryl Frank, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, led the leadership training sessions that covered issues such as competence, power, strategic vision and media management.

The Afghan participants were chosen through written and oral exams and an interview from more than 700 government employees wishing to attend the program.

“At the conclusion of the program one woman said that she returns to Afghanistan with courage, and that she hopes to share that courage with other women,” Cai said.

Associate Professor Pompper publishes research

Associate Professor Donnalyn Pompper, STRC and MMC, has published “Masculinities, the Metrosexual, and Media Images: Across Dimensions of Age and Ethnicity,” in the special issue, “Fiction, Fashion, and Function: Gendered Experiences of Women’s and Men’s Body Image,” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.

Click here to read the study.

Assistant Professor Feistman to receive PRSA education award

Assistant Professor Gregg Feistman, STRC, will be this year’s recipient of the Philadelphia Public Relations Society of America’s Anthony Fulginiti Award for Commitment to Education.

The award will be given the night of Dec. 7 at the Philadelphia chapter’s annual Pepperpot Awards for the best public relations campaigns of the year.

The award is named after Professor Tony Fulginiti who, in 1976, established a PRSSA chapter at Rowan University, wanting his public relations students to learn and grow in a professional setting and establish Rowan as a key institution in the public relations realm. This chapter is now one of the most successful in the country.
The Anthony Fulginiti Award was established to honor a public relations professional who shares Fulginiti’s commitment to the future of public relations. Each year, one person is honored who excels in education, either through their mentoring/teaching, their efforts to help shape the careers of future PR professionals, or their contributions to PRSSA.

Oct. 20: Ogilvy & Mather recruiting

Wednesday, Oct. 20
5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Tuttleman 300AB

Ogilvy & Mather will be on campus Oct. 20 from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. to recruit students for its internship program in Tuttleman 300 AB.

Don’t miss this important opportunity to learn about career opportunities within a global ad agency. After the information session, Ogilvy recruiters will accept resumes until Dec. 1. They will return to campus in January to hold one-on-one interviews.

StratComm’s Deborah Cai to serve as director of Temple London in summer 2011

Deborah Cai, professor and chair of the Strategic Communication Department, will serve as director of the Temple London program in summer 2011.

An expert in intercultural communication, Cai will teach a course that looks at communication through the study of London neighborhoods, including African London, Arabic London, East Asian London,  Chinese London,  Irish London and Turkish London. Through films, museums, historical exploration and face-to-face visits, students will explore how culture — their own and that of others — influences the way they communicate.

Professor Pompper has article published in Journal of Research Practice

An article by Professor Donnalyn Pompper, STRC and MMC, has been published in the open access online Journal of Research Practice. The article is titled “Researcher-Researched Difference: Adapting an Autoethnogrpahic Approach for Addressing the Racial Matching Issue” and appears in a special issue dedicated to Autoethnography as Research Practice; it can be accessed here.