Category: Announcements

G.I.F.T.S. 2023 – CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Great Ideas For Teaching Students (G.I.F.T.S.) provides an excellent opportunity for faculty members and/or graduate students to share classroom-tested “great ideas” with other educators.  In alignment with the conference theme, submissions are encouraged which promote reflection, examination, celebration, and/or reimagination of Communication scholarship and/or pedagogy and the discipline’s unique positioning for addressing contemporary issues.

G.I.F.T.S. submissions should be emailed as a Word document attachment to: evelyn.plummer@shu.edu no later than July 31, 2023 @ 11:59pm EST.  Selected panelists will be notified via email.  

For more details, please click here to view the call for G.I.F.T.S. presentations for the 2023 NYSCA

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TCNJ Adjunct Position – Fall 2022

The College of New Jersey is seeking an adjunct instructor for 2 sections of COM 117, an introductory class in film studies, for Fall 2022. Applicants should have an M.A. or Ph.D. in Cinema Studies or a related discipline and teaching experience.

Day/Time: Tuesday and Friday, 11-12:20 and 2-3:20

Stipend: $5,850 per course (two sections: $11,700)

Teaching Mode: In person

Course Description: An introduction to basic concepts of film analysis. The class examines how formal elements like cinematography, editing, mise en scene and sound are used to create meaning in film.  It will also consider how genre, authorship, film history,

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2022 NYSCA Conference Program Available

 

It’s with great pleasure that we present the final 2022 NYSCA conference program. This year’s program features an exciting line up of presenters, panels and topics supporting our 80th annual conference theme: “Junctures: Celebrating 80 Years of New York State Communication.” 
 
Questions about the program may be directed to Allison Peiritsch, at allison.peiritsch@sru.edu, and questions about registration may be directed to Jessica Kate Crowell at crowellj@newpaltz.edu.
 
We look forward to seeing you there!
 
FINAL NYSCA 2022 ProgramDownload
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G.I.F.T.S. 2022 – Call for Presentations

Great Ideas For Teaching Students (GIFTS) provides an excellent opportunity for faculty members and/or graduate students to share classroom-tested “great ideas” with other educators.  In alignment with the conference theme, submissions are encouraged which promote reflection, examination, celebration, and/or reimagination of Communication scholarship and/or pedagogy and the discipline’s unique positioning for addressing contemporary issues.

G.I.F.T.S. submissions should be emailed as a Word document attachment to: evelyn.plummer@shu.edu no later than July 31, 2022-11:59pm EST.  Selected panelists will be notified via email.  

For more details, please click here to view the call for G.I.F.T.S. presentations for the 2022 NYSCA conference.

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2021 Call For Proceedings

Research papers presented at the recent 79th Annual Conference (2021) of the New York State
Communication Association – Changing the Conversation/ Conversations about Change – are
being accepted for blind peer review for the conference proceedings beginning immediately. We
urge you to contribute your work. Submissions will be accepted until June 1, 2022.

Please use the following link to learn more about how to submit your presented paper to the NYSCA proceedings:
2021 Call For Proceedings

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NYSCA 2021 COVID Policy

For the health and safety of you, our NYSCA family, the Executive Council of the New York State Communication Association made the careful decision to require masking and proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test for participation in our upcoming conference at Villa Roma. Please see this document outlining the details of the policy. 
 
If you have not already done so, we encourage you to pre-register for the conference to help expedite the check-in process to help avoid lines and crowds waiting at the registration table.
 
Other measures that are in place to help keep NYSCA safe while we
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Adjunct Opportunities at Fordham University, Spring 2021

The Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University is currently seeking experienced instructors to teach a range of undergraduate courses in the Spring semester 2021.
 
LOCATION & MODALITY 
Teaching normally takes place at the university’s Rose Hill campus in The Bronx or Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan. However, the COVID-19 pandemic means that in Spring ’21, instructors will be permitted to choose their teaching modality following a Flexible Hybrid Learning model, meaning that an instructor may choose not to teach in-person. More information on modality choice will be offered to candidates who are invited for interview but
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NYSCA Logo Competition Results

We would like to give a warm NYSCA congratulations to our logo competition winner, Morgan Miller, junior at Slippery Rock University.  We would also like to congratulate our second place winner, Kaitlin Parker, and our two honorable mentions, Etaf Abu Hadda and Lucia Petruccelli.  Thank you to everyone who participated, whether you submitted a logo, voted on your favorite logo, or both.  Please click here to see the full newsletter announcing the new logo.

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