Dr. Chad Stebbins Webster Hall, Room 337A 417-625-9736 E-Mail - stebbins-c@mssu.edu

Spring 2008 Office Hours: Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday -

Dr. Chad D. Stebbins teaches Mass Communication and is adviser to The Chart. Dr. Stebbins is a former editor of The Chart, having completed his Bachelor' Degree in Business Administration at Missouri Southern, working at The Joplin Globe part-time while still a student. He went to Central Missouri State University for a Master's Degree in Mass Communication, and returned to Missouri Southern as an instructor in Journalism. He completed his doctorate in Mass Communication at Bowling Green State University. His book, All the News is Fit to Print: Profile of a Country Editor, was published by the University of Missouri Press in the spring of 1998.

Spring 2008 Courses:

Not teaching in Spring 2008

Courses Taught At MSSU:
Comm 100 Oral Communication
Comm 111 Newswriting
Comm 150 Desktop Publishing
Comm 220 Practicum in Communications
Comm 234 Media Career Exploration
Comm 330 Advanced Practicum in Communications
Comm 331 Adv. Newspaper Practicum
Comm 333 Copy Editing
Comm 335 Feature Writing
Comm 350 Sports Writing
Comm 380 International Media Seminar
Comm 450 Community Journalism
Comm 498 Multicultural Journalism Seminar
IntS 101 International Semester Perspectives

Research Interests:

Professional Memberships:
Advisory Council, Center for the Study of International Communications (based in Paris)
International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE)
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
College Media Advisers (CMA)
Missouri Press Association (MPA)

Honors/Awards/Recognition
Named the  Distinguished Four-Year Newspaper Adviser  by College Media Advisers, 1999.
Recipient of the Distinguished Dissertation Award, Bowling Green State University, 1995-96.
Nominated for the national Nafziger-White Dissertation Award by Bowling Green State University, 1995.
Received merit bonus from the Missouri Southern Department of Communications for 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1994-95, 1996-97, 1997-98, and 1998-99.

Publications & Presentations

•  The Transfer Advantage , with Nils Rosdahl, seminar presented at National Student Media Convention, Dallas, Texas, November 2003. (national)
•  Iraqi Coverage: Some Papers Stuck to Local Issues  Publishers  Auxiliary, June 2003.
•  Assessing Study Abroad s Effect on an International Mission  with Kimberly S. Gray and Gwendolyn K. Murdock, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, May/June 2002. (national)
•  Campus Case Studies: Missouri Southern State College  with J. Larry Martin, Promising Practices: Spotlighting Excellence in Comprehensive Internationalization, 2002. (national)
• Panel Discussion on Student Learning for a Global Age, annual meeting of the American Council on Education International Collaborative, Washington, D.C., January 2002. (national)
• Presentation on the Missouri Multicultural Network, with Stephanie Goad, to the International Forum on Internet Communication Development in the New Century, co-sponsored by the Beijing Broadcasting Institute and the British Broadcasting Corp., Beijing, China, April 2001. (international)
•  My Savior, The Staff Handbook", with Lance Speer, seminar presented at National Student Media Convention, Atlanta, Ga., October 1999. (national)
•  Weekly Journalism Offers Excitement, Bizarre Situations, Sense of Community  Grassroots Editor, Fall 1999. (national)
• Pioneer Broadcaster Award Presentation, Southern Video Showcase, November 1999. (college)
•  Propaganda and Journalism  Student Voice Conference, Hvar, Croatia, October 1999. (international)
• All the News Is Fit to Print: Profile of a Country Editor, University of Missouri Press, 1998. (national)
•  Small Paper Aims for Success with Coverage, Technology  1997 Community Newspaper Showcase of Excellence, Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media. (national)
•  Feature Stories Bring a New World to Readers  1996 Community Newspaper Showcase of Excellence, Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media. (national)
•  All the News Is Fit to Print: A Biography of Country Editor Arthur Aull  a paper presented to the Biographical Research Across the Disciplines panel discussion, AEJMC, Anaheim, Calif., August 1996. (national)
•  An Exploratory Study of Relationships, News Releases and the News Media  with William Covington Jr., Stuart Esrock, and Jeffrey Harman, a paper presented to the Central States Communication Association, Indianapolis, Ind., April 1995. ERIC reference number ED390103. (regional)
•  Converting from Evening to Morning   A Successful Marketing Approach  article in Editor & Publisher, January 29, 1994. (national)
•  An Analysis of Sports Metaphors  a paper presented to the Midwest Regional Popular Culture Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, October 1991. (regional)
•  A City Page Belongs in the Campus Paper  article in College Media Review, Summer 1989. (national)

 

Back to the Faculty Staff page

Back to the Home Page