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Communication Division

Division News and Events

  • Dr. Denise Ferguson was recently elected to the National Communication Association's PRIDE committee for the Public Relations Division. Three PR professors comprise the committee, which annually recognizes the best in PR research. Categories include best book/monograph and best research article.
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  • R.J. Aylward won this semester’s Morris Womack Speech Competition with his persuasive speech, “Forbidding the Police the Power to Seize Cell Phones.” Aylward was a student of adjunct speech professor Thomas Fitzpatrick. Greg Daum oversees the competition, which this semester began with 462 students giving persuasive speeches in 22 Com 180 courses. 
  • Tom Shadyac, adjunct professor of communication, recently took a group of Pepperdine students to deliver bicycles to 5th grade students at Foster Elementary School in Compton. Shadyac has encouraged past Pepperdine classes to support simple ways to improve the environment and live a more modest lifestyle. As a part of that initiative, he has purchased bikes for Pepperdine students. This year Pepperdine students helped raise funds to purchase bikes to deliver to the students in Compton. 
  • Dr. Juanie Walker’s Organizational Communication class completed a "community engagement" analysis project this semester with the Santa Barbara/Ventura/Los Angeles county United Cerebral Palsy Foundation. The multiple method study consisted of a quantitative survey that examined satisfaction with communication, work, and management among staff members as well as qualitative interviews with management regarding the fit of work practices with the organizational mission. Our students also volunteered with UCP clients and worked with a service-learning advocate from Pepperdine's Volunteer Center during the semester.