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Teaching College of Fine Arts and Communication winner and University finalist for the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and for the Dean's Teaching Award. Dr. King teaches human information processing (listening), communication ethics, communication research, and communication education. In recent years, King has made substantial progress in involving students in community groups, projects and activities. Communication Inquriry is a new course developed by King that involves undergraduate students in individual research projects. This fall, King will be teaching a graduate course in communication and social cognition. |
Research Widely published in leading academic journals, including Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Communication Quarterly, Communication Education, Journal of Writing and Technical Communication, and others, Dr. King maintains an active program of scholarly research and publication in the areas of information processing, message generation, and communication education. Many of Dr. King's conference papers have won distinction as top papers by the National Communication Association and the Southern States Communication Association. In a study published by the Online Institute of Communication Research, Dr. King ranks in the top 3% of published communication scholars in terms of productivity. |
Service Dr. King served as Chair of the Speech Communication Department (1991-1996) and as Chair of the TCU Faculty Senate (1992-1993). Dr. King has served extensively in TCU committee assignments and in positions within professional associations. Longtime member and current chair of the TCU mediator’s committee, King has received training as a mediator (in compliance with Title 7, Chapter 154, Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and consistent with the Texas Mediation Trainer Roundtable Annotated Standards) and frequently mediates disputes for TCU HR. He has served as a reviewer for Communication Education, Communication Theory, Western Journal of Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and several other journals. |
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