Joseph Ascroft
319-337-6202
Respondent

Ralph Beliveau
1457B Valley View Drive
Coralville, IA 52241
319-358-7356
beliveau@uwosh.edu

Bio: Ralph Beliveau teaches communication theory, media writing, and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He will complete his Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Hanno Hardt at the University of Iowa. His intersts are in communication pedagogy, media literacy, and critical rhetorical studies. He was an editor of the Journal of Communication Inquiry in 1996-97, and in early 1998.

Relationship to MacLean: I am a distant admirer and witness to many tales. I arrived at Iowa many years after MacLean's experiment, but was intrigued by the small bits of evidence of the program that could be found. My interests in pedagogy led me to dig into the history of the Iowa journalism experiment as a revolutionary approach to training media practitioners. Ultimately media educators intersted in critical pedagogy will need to consider many of MacLean's ideas.

Matthew Cecil
University of Iowa
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
W615 Seashore Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-3341; fax 319-335-3502
email: jci-editor@uiowa.edu

Respondent

Bio: Matthew Cecil is a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He is editor of the Journal of Communication Inquiry, a critical, cultural, and historical journal founded 25 years ago by former students and colleagues of Malcolm S. MacLean, Jr. The journal is student edited and is published quarterly by Sage Publications, Inc. Cecil's dissertation, a cultural history of Federal Bureau of Investigation public relations from the 1930s to the 1970s, is entitled "Modified in the Public Interest: Public Relations and the FBI Myth." Cecil was asked to participate in the conference as an informal respondent.

Won Ho Chang
218 Walter Williams Hall
School of Journalism
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7867; fax 573-884-4875
email: jourwhc@showme.missouri.edu or Won_Chang@jmail.jour.missouri.edu

Bio:Won Ho Chang, professor and director of William Stephenson Research Center at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, received his Ph.D. in 1972. r He moved to Missouri, where he has taught journalism for 28 years. He has supervised 30 dissertations (18 on Q studies), written 10 books, and edited 10 volumes of the Sungkok Journalism Review. Young, his lifetime partner, is the owner and publisher of Nanam International Books.

Relationship to MacLean: Mal was my mentor, who taught me how to work and live.

Robert Cox
email: icahdq@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Hanno Hardt
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-3352; fax 319-335-5210
email: hanno.hardt@uni-lj.si

Bio: Hanno Hardt is John F. Murray professor of journalism and mass communication and professor of communication studies, University of Iowa, and professor of communication, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of several books and many articles in scholarly journals and has taught at the University of Iowa since 1968.

Relationship to MacLean: I was hired by Mal MacLean in 1968 as an assistant professor and participated with him in the reconceptualization of journalism education at Iowa, including the graduate program. We shared a similar educational philosophy, including a running critique of the institutionalized journalism education establishment. He supported my own scholarly interests and created an atmosphere for intellectual activities among students and faculty--an unusual situation in journalism programs.

Jae-won Lee
Department of Communication
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115
216-687-4632
email: j.lee@csuohio.edu

Bio: Jae-won Lee, prior to coming to Iowa City in 1969, worked as a reporter for The Korea Times and completed his master's study at Marquette University as a Fulbright Scholar. Upon completing his doctoral program in 1972, he began teaching at Illinois State University, and in 1973 he moved to the present Cleveland State University. At CSU, he is professor of communication and currently works in the university administration as assistant to the provost.

Relationship to MacLean: I worked as a research assistant under Mal MacLean for three years, and under his supervision I finished my doctoral program in 1972. Owing to his influences, I ended up having a primary interest in the area of news values, especially the role of subjectivity in news reporting and in media behaviors.

Richard Lee
Head
Journalism Department
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
email: Richard_Lee@sdstate.edu

Bio: I have been head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication South Dakota State University for the past 21 years. Before coming to Brookings, I taught from 1968 through 1977 in the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. During the Maryland years I worked summers and part-time on the Washington Star copy desk. I was a doctoral student at Iowa from 1966 to 1968, and finished my dissertation in 1972. I had grown up in a weekly newspaper family-my grandfather, father and I were all editors of the Marissa (Ill.) Messenger. My undergraduate degree is in journalism from the University of Illinois and my master's is in journalism from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Between SIU-C and Iowa, I taught journalism for five years at SIU-Edwardsville.

Relationship to MacLean: Like many others at this conference I came to Iowa going one way and left going another-and Malcolm MacLean was the cause. I didn't know much about communication theory or quantification when I began my first Iowa semester in Professor MacLean's Communication Theory class. But I wasn't alone! During the the next two years I was excited time and again working with Mal on Q-methodology and other research projects. I wanted more than anything to do my dissertation with him-and I did. The answer was in a dissertation quantifying history- E. L. Godkin's nineteeth century editorials. It was a subject that caught both of our interests. And, one of the neatest and most surprising awards I ever received was the Carl J. Nelson Award for Outstanding Work in Communications Research at the University of Iowa in 1968. He had indeed sent me off in a far different direction. What fun he was!

Robert Logan
Associate Dean
School of Journalism
University of Missouri/Columbia
120 Neff Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-4814
email: roblog3222@aol.com

Bio: Robert Logan is a professor, associate dean and director of the Science Journalism Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. Logan has published more than 30 articles in scholarly journals and magazines and is the author of Social Responsibility in Science News: Four Case Studies (Washington: The Media Institute, 1997) and Environmental Issues for the 1990s: A Handbook for Journalists (Washington: The Media Institute, 1995). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and Mass Comm Review. He is on the New York Times college advisory board and on science communication boards established by NASA-Marshall and Vanderbilt University. Dr. Logan was a science writer and news editor at several Midwestern newspapers. He received a B.A. in history from Tulane University, an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Iowa. Before moving to Missouri in 1986, Logan was head of the news-editorial sequence and an affiliate professor of medicine at the University of South Florida. Dr. Logan is a two-time chair of both the Council of Divisions and the Mass Communication and Society Division within the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. In 1991-92, Logan was the chair of the Faculty Council on University Policy and spokesperson for the University of Missouri-Columbia faculty. He became the associate dean for undergraduate studies within the Missouri School of Journalism in August 1993.

Relationship to MacLean: I never met Prof. MacLean; but I talked to him on the phone often as Prof. William Stephenson's research assistant at the U. of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism in 1972-73. Prof. MacLean's encouragement was a core reason I decided to get a doctorate in mass communication and applied to the University of Iowa. On the day I was accepted to the Ph.D. program at Iowa, he called me in the newsroom of the St. Paul Pioneer Press to offer congratulations. He said he enjoyed our past conversations and looked forward to my arrival. Prof. MacLean joked, "At the very least, I need someone around here who understands Stephenson." Sadly, from accounts I received later, our phone conversation was one of Prof. MacLean's last. As many Iowa graduate students in the mid-1970s knew, he died within several hours of our talk. Prof. Stephenson subsequently became a visiting, mass communications faculty member at Iowa from 1974-77. Stephenson, who died in 1989, often told Iowa classes of his professional and personal admiration for MacLean. Prof. MacLean remains an inspiration to anyone who cares about mass communication theory, innovation, and pedagogy.

John Kamp
AAAA
Washington, DC
jkamp@aaaadc.org
Respondent

Jim Ludema
Benedictine University
5700 College Road
Lisle, IL 60532
email: jludema@ben.edu
Respondent

Bio: James D. Ludema is an Assistant Professor of Organization Development at Benedictine University. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Calvin College and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University. Jim has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and has served as consultant to a variety of organizations in the profit, non-profit, and government sectors including British Petroleum, AMOCO, McDonalds, Northern Telecom, Square D Company, Essef Corporation, Bell and Howell, Kaiser Permanente, World Vision, the City of Minneapolis, and many local and international NGOs. Jim's research interests include the human and organization dimensions of global change, business and sustainable development, the power of hope in building communities and organizations, organizational storytelling, and whole system methodologies for strategic change. Publications include Organizational hope: Reaffirming the constructive task of social and organizational inquiry, Partnering to build and measure organizational capacity: Lessons from NGOs around the world, From deficit discourse to vocabularies of hope: The power of appreciation, Building systems that learn on a global scale: An appreciative large-group intervention, Appreciative Storytelling: A Constructive Approach to Organization Development and Change.

Luigi Manca
Professor of Communication Arts
Benedictine University
5700 College Road
Lisle, IL 60532
fax 630-960-4805
email: lmanca@ben.edu

Bio: Dr. Manca has, since 1991, been a professor at Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill., first in the department of literature and communication (which he chaired for five years) and then in the new Communication Arts department. Prior to coming to Benedictine University, Manca was 1984-1988: associate professor and director of the Institute of Communications and Media Arts at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio (1984-1988), associate professor and chair of the Media/Communications Department at Medaille College in Buffalo, N.Y. (1982-1984), and assistant professor (promoted to associate in 1980) in the Communications Department at Loyola University in New Orleans (1976-1982). During 1988-1991, he also served as a one-person journalism department at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska. Manca has conducted research on journalism and communication arts education and on mass communication theory, with special focus on advertising imagery. He is author of several publications, including a book (edited with his wife Alessandra) entitled Gender & Utopia in Advertising (Lisle, Ill.: Procopian Press, 1994, distributed by Syracuse University Press>.

Relationship to MacLean: Mal was my father-in-law. He invited me to come to Iowa in 1972 to work toward the Ph.D. in mass communications. After Mal died in 1974, I helped put together the archives with all his writings and, in 1976, edited a special issue of the Journal of Communication Inquiry entitled Essays in Honor of Malcolm S. MacLean, Jr. My doctoral dissertation was an attempt to provide a synthesis of Mal's writings.

Sharon Murphy
308 W. Wolf Road
Peoria, IL 61614
309-693-8322
email: smm@bradley.edu

Bio: Sharon Murphy has held positions as graduate director, dean, and provost and is currently interim chair of the Department of Communication at Bradley University. She has authored Other Voices: Black, Chicano and American Indian Press, co-authored (with James E. Murphy) Let My People Know: American Indian Journalism 1828-1978), and (with Madelon Schilpp) Great Women of the Press, and co-edited (with Donald Wigal) Screen Experience: An Approach to Film and (with Atwood and Bullion) International Perspectives on News. She also worked as reporter, magazine editor, and public relations director.

Relationship to MacLean: Malcolm MacLean chaired my dissertation committee, brought Jim Murphy into the doctoral program at a critical point in Jim's intellectual history, and was for both of us a friend and confidant. He questioned my easy assumptions about teaching and learning. He tolerated my impatience with "the way things were," and helped me think about strategies and tactics in ways I had not done before. He was more comfortable with ambiguity than I was (or am even now), and he made me consider process as well as product. He took a chance on what was considered back then my pretty radical proposal: to begin what we were to call "Urban Journalism Workshops," designed to recruit minority teens into the newspaper business. I later found that we at Iowa were pioneers -- very few such initiatives had yet been tried. Since then I have conducted or sponsored over 15 summer or yearlong high-school ventures and one targeted at professional mid-career individuals. Whether it was loyalty to the ideas he inspired or response to his challenge following Kerner, I remain hooked. Thanks, Mal!

Alex Nesterenko
Director
School of Journalism
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
616-895-3667
nesterea@gvsu.edu

Bio: Alex Nesterenko is a 1973 B.A. graduate of the Iowa School of Journalism's "Simulation Program." Nesterenko continued his education at Iowa, receiving both the M.A. (1976) and the Ph.D. (1979) in mass communication. After his Iowa years, Nesterenko went to the University of Tulsa, where he was chair of the Mass Media Program and assistant chair of the Faculty of Communication. Since 1984, Nesterenko has been director of the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University. The GVSU School of Communications consists of 1,000 student majors, offers undergraduate programs in advertising/public relations, broadcasting, film/video production, general communication, health communication, journalism, photography, and theater, and an M.S. program in communication.

Relationship to MacLean: During my junior and senior years at the University of Iowa, I assisted Harley E. Straus in the photography program and assisted Malcolm S. MacLean, Jr., in the preparation of his 1973 ICA presidential address. Later, while a graduate student at Iowa, I was an assistant to William Stephenson and Albert D. Talbott.

Bradley B. Niemcek
4016 N. Brookridge Place
Peoria, IL 61614
309-686-9210
bradn@fgi.net

Respondent <>P Bio: Brad Niemcek is a former newspaper reporter, broadcast newswriter, public relations practioner and entrepreneur in the field of media services who consults to business clients on marketing communications and teaches public relations courses as an adjunct professor in the Department of Communication at Bradley University. He received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Marquette University (1965) and master's degree in telecommunications from George Mason University (1999).

Will Norton
Dean
College of Journalism
206 Avery
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0127
402-472-8269; fax 402-472-8597
email: wnorton@unl.edu wnorton@unlinfo.unl.edu

Bio: Will Norton, Jr., has been dean at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since August 1990. He is vice president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He served as president of ASJMC from 1989 to 1990. He is a member of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He has made more than 30 campus visits as a consultant, member or chair of site teams of ACEJMC and Board program evaluator. He was graduated from the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in Mass Communications. His other degrees include an M.A. in journalism from Indiana University and a B.A. with honors in history from Wheaton College. He has written articles for publication in journals and popular magazines, has ghost written three books and directed funded research for a dozen newspapers. He has directed 30 M.A. theses to completion. He has served on 60 thesis and more than a dozen doctoral committees. He is a partner in ownership of The South Reporter, Inc., Holly Springs, Miss., a corporation that publishes two newspapers. He was publisher of The Daily Iowan, and was managing editor of Christian Life Publications, Inc. He previously was on the staff of the Chicago Tribune and was sports editor of The Daily Journal, Wheaton, Illinois. Norton is a trustee of The Freedom Forum.

Relationship to MacLean: Malcolm MacLean was my adviser. I interviewed with him before I decided to come to the University of Iowa. I took his and Al Talbott's sbinar for as long as it was offered during my three years at Iowa. Won Chang and I met with Mal regularly during my first year in the graduate program. I visited his home with Won almost every weekend during the fall of 1971. Mal was directing my dissertation efforts when he died in the second semester of the 1973-74 academic year. I had prepared for the dissertation by reading everything available by Mal. So much of what he wrote made so much sense. His writing style was so clear. I found it difficult to understand why he was controversial. Then I would discuss his articles with him, and I understood. There was a lot more theoretical bite in his oral elaborations than in his writing. I thought Mal was years ahead of most educators, but he did not want to waste time on the niceties of marketing and the details of administration. As a result, because of Iowa's uncompromising stance on many issues, the program was not viewed as innovative by the accrediting body, and the school lost accreditation. I found Mal to be a principled mentor who was superior to most of his counterparts. His peers were among the elite of higher education. I cherish my memories of him.

Kit O'Toole
121 Carroll Ave., Aot, B-6
DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 754-0237
email: kotoole@niu.edu or kotoole72@yahoo.com

Bio: Kit O'Toole is a Ph.D. student in English (concentrations: rhetoric, composition and WAC) at Northern Illinois University. She is also the social sciences writing consultant as part of NIU's Writing across the Curriculum program. She received her B.A. in Literature and Communications from Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois, and her M.A. in Writing at DePaul University, Chicago.

Relationship to MacLean: I was invited by Luigi Manca, my advisor at Benedictine University, to be a respondent representing writing centers and theory.

Gail W. Pieper

Adjunct Professor
Communication Arts
Benedictine University
5700 College Road
Lisle, IL 60532

Coordinator of Technical Editing and Writing
MCS Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439
630-829-6258 630-252-7222
fax 630-960-4805 630-252-5986
email: pieper@mcs.anl.gov

Bio: Dr. Pieper received her bachelor's degree in classics from the University of Connecticut and her master's degree and doctorate in classical philology from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She is managing editor of the Journal of Automated Reasoning and coordinator of technical writing and editing in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory. She has taught university classes in technical writing, ancient Mediterranean literature, Greek and Latin, editing, public relations writing, and mass communication. Her research and teaching interests range from technical writing and editing to classical literature.

Relationship to MacLean: I am co-organizer of the MacLean conference. My Advanced Editing students edited the unpublished papers of MacLean now on the Web.

Keith Sanders
School of Journalism
University of Missouri/Columbia
213 Walter Williams
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7685; fax 573-882-4823
email: keith_sanders@jmail.jour.missouri.edu

Bio: Keith P. Sanders is professor of journalism at the University of Missouri, where he teaches mass communication theory and research. He is executive director of Kappa Tau Alpha, national honor society in journalism/mass communication. He was associate editor of Mass Comm Review from 1981 to 1991 and continues on the editorial board of its successor, Mass Communication & Society. He was on the editorial board of JOURNALISM MONOGRAPHS from 1973 to 1980. He served four years on the elected AEJMC Standing Committee on Research. In 1987 he received the Trayes Professor of the Year Award from the MC & S Division. At Missouri he has been O.O. McIntyre Distinguished Professor, chair of the Editorial Department and interim associate dean for graduate studies/research. He is listed in Who'�s Who in America.

Relationship to MacLean: Mal served on my dissertation committee (I considered him co-chair). I also took a comm theory class and an advanced research course with him. He introduced me to Q Methodology and, more importantly, convinced me of the value of "theoretical" research for professional communication application. His openness to competing ideas was addictive. After I left Iowa, I learned even more from him--discovering that my education had raised more questions than answers (which of course was exactly his purpose). We corresponded frequently, particularly as I was trying out how to teach research methods to a class of 50+ graduate students. Our correspondence led to me serving on a dissertation he was advising (by Charles Self, who had been an MA advisee of mine) and even more interaction.

Peter Seely

Benedictine University
5700 College Road
Lisle, IL 60532
email: pseely@ben.edu

Bio: Peter Seely has been a college educator for over 20 years. He received his M.A. in Communications from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1979. He has published a number of works in popular culture, and has additional expertise in television production and mass media law. He has been affilliated with the national program the Media Workshops since 1986, and was the program director from 1994-97. In 1997 Mr. Seely hosted a national conference on television violence, and has had several published opinions on issues of media developments and public policy. He currently serves as the Chair of the Communication Arts Department at Benedictine University.

Respondent

Charles C. Self
Professor and Head
Department of Journalism
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX 77843
409-845-4611
email: c-self@tamu.edu

Bio: Charles C. Self is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Journalism. He has been at Texas A&M since January 1991 and was head of the department at A&M until September 1999. He was previously Chair of Journalism for five years at te University of Alabama. He is president-elect of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and past president of the Southwest Education Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. he is also chair of the AEJMC/ASJMC Cooperative Committee on Alliances, an educator group that promotes cooperation between journalism organizations and journalism educators. He was founding editor of the Journal of Communication Inquiry and has authored an editing textbook, 28 articles, 18 book reviews, and numerous grant proposals and research presentations. His research interests include new media technology, news credibility, international communication policy, and communication theory and philosophy. He has conducted international comparative studies in England, Germany, Japan, and France and established international programs with Germany, China, and Mexico. He has taught broadly across the curriculum, including courses in reporting, editing, mass communication and society, and communication theory. He was reporter, editor, and writer for United press International, daily and weekly newspapers, and public relations organizations before entering academia. Self received his Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Iowa in 1974, M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1971, and B.A. in English and political science (international relations) from andrrews University in 1966.

Relationship with MacLean: Mal MacLean was my teacher, my advisor, and my friend. He was my dissertation advisor at the time of his death. I had taken several of his classes. I had worked with him on college projects. I had come to the University of Iowa from the University of Missouri as a visiting instructor. I had a professional background and was hired to teach skills courses. Mal MacLean helped me discover the borad sets of assumptions underlying everything I was doing as a professional. I decided I wanted to remain at Iowa and complete my doctoral work. Mal helped me sort through that decision. He challenged me to find new answers in new ways. He literally changed the direction of my life.

Albert D. Talbott
Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
319-335-3458; fax 319-335-5210
email: al-talbott@uiowa.edu

Derek H. Willard
Associate Vice President for Research
201 Gillmore Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-3714
derek-willard@uiowa.edu

Research Project Participants

Leonard J. Barchak
Professor of Communication Research
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA 70609
318-475-5040

Richard W. Budd
120 Cypress Creek
Williamsburg, VA 23188
757-226-4180
email: rwbudd@regent.edu

Alex S. Edelstein
7744 58th Ave. N.E.
Seattle, Washington 98115
Respondent

Brent Ruben
Professor and Executive Director
Rutgers QCI
Office of Organizational Quality and Communication Improvement
4 Huntington Street
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(732) 932-1420, fax (732) 932-1422
email: ruben@qci.rutgers.edu

Ed McLuskie
Professor
Department of Communication
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725
208-385-3320
email: emclusk@bigfoot.com or emclusk@boisestate.edu

Bio: Ed McLuskie received his Ph.D. under the direction of Hanno Hardt, with a thesis using Marxist-inspired epistemology as a vehicle for criticism of the field. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Florida Atlantic University, and, since 1981, at Boise State University. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1997.

Relationship to MacLean: I had no idea who Mal MacLean was when I arrived for the Ph.D. program in 1971. But when the fall semester started, he gave me a crash course in basic epistemological questioning, as he rendered me speechless after answering what I thought were "obvious questions" about what I "saw" in the newspaper he was pointing to. Thus he hooked me with the strategy of "stupid" questions as a way to unmask perceptions we take for granted. I took courses -- more informal the formal -- with him for nearly two years; had he not died shortly after my comprehensive examinations with him and others of my committee, MacLean would have co-chaired my committee, at the suggestion of Hanno Hardt.

Mary E. Trapp
Department of Mass Communication
California State University/Hayward
Hayward, CA 94542
510-885-4095
email: mtrapp@csuhayward.edu

Bio: Mary Trapp received a bachelor's defree from the University of North Dakota and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa School of Journalism. Her areas of interest include free expression theory and history, mass communication history, and public opinion. Prior to going to CSUH in 1985, she taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Boise State University. At CSUH she served as department chair for six years and as associate dean of arts, letters, and social sciences for three years.

Relationship to MacLean: I was a graduate student at Iowa from 1969 to 1973. Mal was on my M.A. and Ph.D. committees, I spent many stimulating hours with other students and faculty gathered in Mal and Nora's living room or around their kitchen table. mal tried his best to teach me quantitative research methods. I'm sure I disappointed him with my lack of appreciation for factor analysis, but he never held it against me.

David Turner, O.S.B.

Benedictine University
5700 College Road
Lisle, IL 60532

Possible interest: Education research