Abstract
With the following article, the question I want to open for readers of the Iowa Journal of Communication--not only as professional educators, but as parents and citizens of Iowa -- is whether there may be some way that the confluence of these two difficult problems might represent an opportunity. Are there some practicable ways in which faculty in general, communication scholars in general, perhaps rhetoricians in particular can take the lead in reconciling the apparently contrary imperatives of the public research university? And thereby, perhaps, make our centrality more apparent, our situation more secure? I know that serious thinking has already been given to this subject on all three Iowa Regents' campuses, and in many other places within and beyond our borders. But perhaps it is time to share more of these ideas, critique and refine them for the mixed purposes of the research university. As a beginning to this dialogue, I offer this distillation of some of the faculty-driven initiatives (which have largely been generated across departments) at the University of Iowa. I call on our readers to respond: high school and community college teachers are explicitly and enthusiastically included in the invitation.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
26
Issue
2
First Page
43
Last Page
43
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Antczak, Frederick J.
(1994)
"Colloquium: Teaching, Communications, and the Public Research University,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 26:
No.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol26/iss2/5
Copyright
©1994 Iowa Communication Association
