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| Linda Bond Jean Parker Eldred Jerry Frye Al Greule Stephen Jeffcoat | Larry King | Pat Spence Elizabeth Spradley Tyler Spradley Jim Towns Sherry Williford | |
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R E G E N T S u Jim Towns
During the 1994-95 academic year, Dr. Towns served as a Regents Professor, an honor bestowed by the SFA Board of Regents. He received the Distinguished Professor Award in 1996 from the Alumni Association. The award is given annually to a university faculty member for outstanding service. His teaching interests have focused on public speaking, interpersonal communication and crises communication. Dr. Towns is the author of 10 books and numerous professional articles and reviews. His publications have included topics in grief recovery, communication theory, crises communication and self-esteem. One of his books, "Solo Flight" has been translated into Africaan. Dr. Towns has made more than 50 presentations at annual conventions of such organizations as the Texas Speech Association, the Southern Speech Association, the Texas Education Agency, the Association of Business Communication and the Western Social Science Association. His articles have appeared in such journals as The Clergy Journal, Journal of Single Adults, Thanatos and Nursing Forum. Dr. Towns has also produced and consulted on numerous videos related to grief and single living. E-mail: jtowns@sfasu.edu P R O F E S S O R S u Jerry Frye Dr. Frye's research interests include: mass communication theory; persuasion; advertising; interpersonal communication; political communication; nonverbal communication; listening; psychotherapy; and professional counseling and therapy techniques. He has taught a variety of these communication courses at five universities including: Texas Christian University, The University of Michigan, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Minnesota at Duluth, and Stephen F. Austin State University.
Dr. Frye has presented 34 convention papers to organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution, Speech Communication Association, New York State Speech Association, Eastern Communication Association, Communication Association of the Pacific, American Culture Association, and the International Communication Association. Dr. Frye was born, raised and attended public schools in Plainview, Texas. He worked for the federal government in Washington, D.C., as a "Post-Doctoral Research Scholar" at the Smithsonian Institution where he was project director of the "American Advertising History Project" in the Social and Cultural History Division of the National Museum of American History. Dr. Frye founded and served as president and CEO of Professional Communication Associates (PCA), a private consulting firm in operation for the past 26 years. The major focus of PCA is interpersonal communication, listening techniques, and corporate communication skills applied to small and large American corporations. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and holds board certification in Texas. Dr. Frye has traveled extensively throughout the United States; foreign travel has included Mexico, Canada, Japan, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. Hobbies include reading, camping, gardening, and tennis. E-mail: f_fryejk@titan.sfasu.edu u Larry J. King Dr. King was born and raised in Nacogdoches. He attended Stephen F. Austin his freshman year of college but completed his degree at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. He has held faculty positions at Olivet Nazarene University, Lamar University, and Stephen F. Austin State University. At Lamar he served as the director of broadcasting and faculty senate president. He was given the Regent's Merit Award for excellence in teaching by the Lamar University Board of Regents. Dr. King has also served as the president of the Press Club of Southeast Texas. He has served as the chair of the SFA faculty senate and received the Teaching Excellence Award for the College of Applied Arts and Sciences. E-mail: lking@sfasu.edu A S S O C I A T E / P R O F E S S O R S u Jean Parker Eldred
The last two years of her doctoral work (1988-1990) were spent as a faculty member in the Communication Department of Mississippi State University. Upon completion of her Ph.D in 1990 she joined the faculty at SFASU. Dr. Eldred presently teaches undergraduate courses in Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Small Group Communication, Political Communication, Psychology of Communication, and a graduate course in Communication Theory. She has a particular interest in the application of new technology in the teaching of courses and stimulating critical thought processes. E-mail: jeldred@sfasu.edu u Al Greule In between obtaining degrees, Dr. Greule worked in radio for eight years He has done He served as president of the Texas Association of Broadcast Educators for two consecutive terms, and is a member of the Broadcast Education Association. As a member of the National Broadcasting Society –AERho for over 20 years, Dr. Greule has served as president of the national chapter of professionals, the Texas District Coordinator and most recently served as the national Vice-President for Alumni and Professional Services. He also sits on the board of the Texas Broadcast Education Foundation. Dr. Greule is listed in Who's Who in Entertainment and has been selected as a participant in faculty-industry seminars by both the International Radio and Television Society and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has also served on the board of the Texas Broadcast Education Foundation. Dr. Greule presently teaches courses in basic and advanced television production, television news techniques (electronic news gathering), broadcast/cable programming and broadcast sales. He also teaches a section of SFA 101, a freshman seminar devoted to only Radio/TV majors. E-mail: agreule@sfasu.edu uGary Mayer Dr. Mayer, who was reared in Los Angeles and Houston, taught at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee, Troy State University in Alabama and East Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Commerce) before coming to SFA in 1992. One of his research interests is American journalism history. Since 1998, he has presented papers at the Western Journalism Historians Conference, a national meeting held at the University of California-Berkeley. He was Research Chair in 2000 and Conference Chair in 2001. He also has presented papers on history and journalistic writing/editing, another interest, at conferences sponsored by the Southwest Education Council for Journalism Mass/Communication. A third research interest is general semantics. Dr. Mayer, a member of the Institute of General Semantics, has written articles for the organization's publications and has participated in its round table, held in New York City. At SFA, he teaches New Writing, Copy Editing and Headline Writing, Communication Law, Advertising Techniques and Procedures, Public Relations and History of Journalism. Dr. Mayer was instrumental in bringing a chapter of Delta Chi social fraternity, of which he is a brother, to the SFA campus. He serves as both Faculty Adviser and Alumni Adviser. His wife, Judy, is a licensed professional counselor in Nacogdoches. Their son, Michael, lives in Lubbock, and their daughter and son-in-law, Michelle and Greg Gleinser, reside in Flower Mound. A grandson, John Michael, born Aug. 17, 2001, shares his birthday with Dr. Mayer and his son. Dr. Mayer enjoys reading, cooking and playing with his pets: Kimball Ross, who's the best of all possible dogs, and four delightful cats: Cleo, Samba Janene (Cleo's mom), Daisy Ruth and Katrina Annette. E-mail: gmayer@sfasu.edu u Wanda Mouton Dr. Mouton taught journalism and photography in secondary schools for Dr. Mouton was recipient of the SFASU Teaching Excellence Award in 2006. She was also the Applied Arts and Sciences College award Dr. Mouton teaches undergraduate courses in news reporting, feature Her primary areas of academic research include community/civic E-mail: wmouton@sfasu.edu
As a member of the faculty at Stephen F. Austin, Ty has written book chapters on public speaking and crisis communication. He is one of the editors of the departmental text for the basic public speaking course and the advisor for the Tau Phi chapter of Lamba Pi Eta. Ty teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in subjects such as: organizational communication, leadership, conflict, human communication, interpersonal communication, media criticism, public speaking, gender, and qualitative research. In addition to teaching, writing and researching, Ty provides consulting services and speaks for local businesses and community groups. Most of all, Ty enjoys his time with his colleague and wife, Elizabeth, and their son. E-mail: tspradley@sfasu.edu
I N S T R U C T O R S u Linda Bond E-mail: lbond@sfasu.edu u Stephen P. Jeffcoat Prior to academia, Stephen Jeffcoat spent a decade working in the Advertising/Corporate Communications Department of a Fortune 500 company in the Dallas area. During that time he developed projects for both national and international accounts.
Stephen is a past member of the IPDA Governing Board and has served on the IPDA Executive Committee as Executive Secretary. He then worked in the position of IPDA Managing Director and is currently serving a four year term as IPDA's President. Jeffcoat is the first person in the history of the organization to have held all three top offices. In 2005, he was named the first ever IPDA Coach Of The Year by a vote of his peers in the forensics community. At SFA, Mr. Jeffcoat is a representative on the Teacher Education Council. Annually, he helps the high school debate community by serving as the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Contest Director for the UIL Regional Tournament held at SFA. Winners of the tournament travel to the State Tournament in Austin, Texas. Previously, he has served on the Faculty Senate, the Financial Assistance & Scholarship Committee and on the New Faculty Orientation Committee. Mr. Jeffcoat has worked for nine years in the fall semester teaching SFA-101, the freshman orientation seminar for first semester college students. He values his time with incoming students and enjoys getting them started on a successful path through college. Seeing his students walk the stage at graduation brings him a great feeling of accomplishment. Stephen's academic interests include speech communication curriculum, the rhetorical aspects of competitive forensic activities and leadership development. When he is not traveling the country for forensics activities, Stephen relaxes by listening to music, working in his woodshop, cooking, watching movies, reading, keeping up with current events, following the visual & performing arts and planning his next adventure. E-mail: sjeffcoat@sfasu.edu
Her professional experience includes: Work as a general assignments and police reporter and feature writer for daily newspapers in Missouri and California; More than 20 years experience as a marketing and public relations practitioner in settings including non-profit community service agency, for-profit hospital, large market public relations agency, international advertising and public relations firm and private consulting business. Instructor of public relations, newswriting and communication skills at university level. She holds a professional accreditation from the Public Relations Society of America and has been named Advisor of the Year by the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association and winner of the Student Life Award by SFA Student Development division. E-mail: pspence@sfasu.edu
Currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Organizational Communication from Texas A&M
Since joining the faculty at SFA, Elizabeth's leadership has led to the Communication Department's Lecture Series. She enjoys the opportunity for faculty to further expose students to contemporary research projects in the field of communication. When not hard at work, Elizabeth's favorite pastime is being with her family - her husband Ty and her son. You just may see them out walking around campus through the arboretum or the other walking trails. E-mail: espradley@sfasu.edu u Sherry Williford Mrs. Williford's professional work includes TV commercial writer and production director at an ABC affiliate, 11 years in radio as traffic director, writer-producer and numerous program hosts such as for consumer, children, and music shows. She taught at Arkansas State before coming to SFA in 1992. Mrs. Williford has served as secretary for the SFA Faculty Senate and was the 1998 Applied Arts and Sciences Teaching Mrs. Williford presently teaches courses in the introduction/history of radio/television, basic audio production techniques, radio and television announcing and oversees the training of students for the campus radio station. E-mail: swilliford@sfasu.edu L E C T U R E R S u Greg Patterson
His teaching responsibilities include courses in photography and graphics. His academic interests include visual communication, digital photography, educational technology in the classroom, and Internet technologies. Since 1993, he has also owned and operated G. Patterson Photographic Studio & Gallery, a successful portrait studio located on Mound Street in historic downtown Nacogdoches. Client services include family portraits, children portraits and high school seniors.
Married to Cindy Patterson, they have three children, Jessica, Daniel and Nathan. E-mail: gpatterson@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Towns has spent his entire professional higher education career at SFA. A popular keynote speaker at various events, he has appeared on television and as a presenter at workshops and seminars throughout the United States as well as in Canada, England and Europe.
Publications as author/co-author/editor include five books and 25 articles-book chapters-book reviews. His publications have appeared in the Speech Association of Minnesota, Speech Education, Communication Journal, Resources in Education, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Political Communication Review, Journal of Black Studies, Speech Monographs, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
Ph.D., The University of Oklahoma; M.A. in Religion, Southern Nazarene University; M.A. in Communication, Southern Nazarene University; B.A., Southern Nazarene University
Dr. Eldred worked in government, major business corporations, and higher education before, during, and after obtaining her bachelor's and master's degrees in Psychology. In 1985 she entered the doctoral program in Communication at the University of Oklahoma and was awarded one of the ten Regents Fellowships given to students in graduate programs within the state. While at the University she taught classes and co-directed the University's forensics program.
freelance video work in both corporate video and entertainment including ESPN and FOX Sports. Since 1993, he has produced and directed the football coach's program for the local ABC station KTRE-TV.
WANDA MOUTON worked as a reporter, photographer, editor, free-lance writer and public relations specialist for 10 years. During that time she won awards from the Texas Press Association and Texas Press Women for writing and layout design.
Currently, R. Tyler "Ty" Spradley is completing his dissertation in the field of organizational communication. His studies include conflict, culture, gender, and leadership within disaster response and emergency management organizations. Ty is interested in the negotiated constitution of collective mind, identity and collaboration through organizational discourse within incident management processes and training processes. Since joining the faculty in 2002, Ty has presented research projects at national and regional conventions of the National Communication Association, the Southern States Communication Association, the Popular/American Culture Association, and the Popular/American Culture Association of the South. 
ns business since graduating from Texas Tech and the University of Texas at the Permian Basin. She has written for Women’s Wear Daily and W, USA Today, Family Circle, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, Sunset Magazine and more. She hosted a live television talk show in West Texas and has been in hundreds of TV and radio commercials, and given countless speeches and workshops.
Mr. Jeffcoat teaches courses in public speaking, persuasion, interpersonal communication and argumentation & debate. He also serves as the university's Director of Forensics. In this role he is responsible for overseeing SFA's Debate Team and for administering the Waldo Miller Debate Scholarships. Under his guidance, the SFA Debate Team has received numerous awards. Highlights include four straight IPDA Varsity Division Team National Championships during the 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05 seasons and two IPDA Open Division Team National Championships in 2002-03 and 2005-06. Four of his students have won the IPDA National Championship Tournament, one in 2001, one in 2003, another in 2006 and most recently in 2007. Additionally, many SFA debaters have been ranked in the top ten nationally at the close of the debate season including several 1st place rankings. In April of 2004, the IPDA National Championship Tournament and Convention was held on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University. Each year in March, college debaters from across the country travel to SFA's campus to attend the Pineywoods Debate Tournament hosted by SFA Debate and PI KAPPA DELTA. Mr. Jeffcoat serves as the advisor for SFA's TX ALPHA MU chapter of PI KAPPA DELTA. 
In addition to serving as a lecturer in the Department of Communication, Ms. Spence is the university's Director of Student Publications with responsibility for The Pine Log, SFA's twice-weekly student newspaper; the Stone Fort yearbook and The Myriad, an annual literary magazine. Her teaching responsibilities in the department include Advanced Newswriting, Special Problems in Communication and supervision of professional internships in journalism and public relations.
Elizabeth Spradley is interested in communication research in risk, emotion, volunteerism, and health professions. Previous research works have focused on rhetorical studies of presidential speeches and have been presented at conventions of the National Communication Association, the Southern States Communication Association, and American Culture and Popular Culture Associations of the South. In addition to being the former national debate champion of the International Public Date circuit, Elizabeth has published a chapter on credibility in the association's debate textbook. 
Excellence Award receipient.
After receiving his bachelor's degree in journalism from Stephen F. Austin State University, Mr. Patterson invested eight years working for SFA's Public Affairs office as university photographer. Upon completion of his master's degree, he spent two years teaching photography part-time for the Department of Communication. He has been part of SFA's full-time faculty since the fall semester of 1996.
He is a member of Texas Professional Photographers of America (TPPA) and Professional Photographers of America (PPA). He is a PPA Certified Professional Photographer, one of less than 150 in Texas.