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Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University, served as its director March 2002-2010. Previously, she was founding dean of the College of Communications and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, director of the journalism and mass communication program at Kent State University and a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Louisiana State University and Syracuse University. She is president of the Arab-U.S. Association of Communication educators and is a member of the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). VanSlyke Turk is past president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) and of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). In 2006, AEJMC recognized her as its Outstanding Woman in Journalism Education. She has been chair of AEJMC's teaching standards committee, Council of Divisions and the Public Relations Division. VanSlyke Turk is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society and past chair of the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society of America's College of Fellows. She was named Outstanding Public Relations Educator of PRSA in 1992, and in 2005 she shared the Pathfinder Award from the Institute for Public Relations with THIS IS PR co-author Doug Newsom for her lifetime contributions of research. She is associate editor of Journalism Studies and member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Journal, Public Relations Review and Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly. In addition to this text, she is co-editor of a collection of international case studies published by the Institute for Public Relations. Dean Kruckeberg, Ph.D., APR and Fellow PRSA (Public Relations Society of America), is executive director of the Center for Global Public Relations and a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Previously, he was a public relations professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa and coordinator of the Public Relations Degree Program and the Mass Communication Division. He is a charter member of the Commission on Global Public Relations Research and a senior fellow of the Society for New Communications Research. Since 1997, Kruckeberg has been co-chair of the Commission on Public Relations Education. For the PRSA, he served for two years on the national board, is a member of the PRSA Advocacy Advisory Board, has been chair of the Educator's Section (now Academy), was Midwest District Chair of PRSA, and was co-chair of the national Educational Affairs Committee of which he remains a member. He is former National Faculty Advisor of the Public Relations Student Society of America and former Advisor to Forum, the national newspaper of PRSSA. He is a past chair of the Public Relations Division of the International Communication Association, former Head of the Public Relations Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and former Chair of the Public Relations Division of the National Communication Association. Awards include PRSA's outstanding educator in 1995; 1997 recipient of the Pathfinder Award from the Institute for Public Relations; 1997 State of Iowa Regents Faculty Excellence Award; 1998 Wartburg College Alumni Citation; and 2006 recipient of the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Research Prize. In addition to this text, Kruckeberg is co-author of the book PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNITY: A RECONSTRUCTED THEORY.