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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:20:52 EDT
From:         Comserve Support Staff <SUPPORT@RPIECS.BITNET>
Subject:      Announcements of general interest to the Comserve community ...

Four items follow:

   1.  Call for participants in conference on budget cuts in higher
       education and their impact on communication programs
   2.  Speech Communication Association seminar will treat labor discourse
   3.  Comserve's database
   4.  How to drop a hotline subscription

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         |   Call For Participants in a Private Conference:  |
         | Effective Strategies for Dealing with Budget Cuts |
         |               By Bruce Klopfenstein               |
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    Universities around the country have been facing severe budget cuts
that have led to consequences ranging from hiring freezes to elimination
of academic programs, including communication programs.  For some areas,
the worst may be over; for others, a crisis environment is emerging.
Most universities appear to be in for leaner financial times in the next
few years regardless of the short-term budget outcomes.

    Rather than curse the darkness, perhaps we can shed light on dealing
with dramatic budget cuts through a private conference on Comserve.  The
participants should be those who currently or previously have exercised
responsibilities for budgets--both those who have weathered their
school's storms and those who are only now being engulfed by them.

    Before going on with the conference, a measure of interest in
participation must be taken.  Those who wish to participate in a private
conference, please send an email message to Bruce Klopfenstein:

                     klopfenstein@bgsuopie (bitnet)

                 klopfenstein@opie.bgsu.edu (internet)

indicating your interest in participating; your name, title,
university affiliation, and address; and your current or previous
budgetary responsibilities (including those at the greater university
level if applicable).  For example:

Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Telecommunications
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH

Email: klopfenstein@bgsuopie or klopfens@opie.bgsu.edu

    Responsible for department operating budget and budgets for 2 campus
radio stations, 2 additional student organizations, and the department's
foundation account.

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                |    SCA Seminar on Labor Discourse    |
                | By Harold Schlechtweg <CSCHWICH@UGA> |
                |______________________________________|


    The topic, "Labor Discourse in America:  Strategies of Conflict,
Strategies of Cooperation," has been selected for the 1992 SCA seminar
series at the SCA national meeting in Chicago.  Anyone wishing to
participate is encouraged to E-mail Harold Schlechtweg
<CSCHWICH@UGA.BITNET> for a complete seminar description or write Prof.
Ed Panetta, Dept. of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens
GA 30602.  We are asking all participants to present a finished paper or
work in progress.  The seminar will meet Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1992, and
is tentatively scheduled for a 9:30 am to 5:30 pm time slot.  A brief
description follows:

          Labor Discourse in America: Strategies of Conflict,
                       Strategies of Cooperation

    Profound socio-economic and political changes over the past two
decades have marginalized trade unions in American society.  This
seminar seeks to re-evaluate trade unions as a vital voice for community
and social responsibility.  We are seeking seminar participants with
work in progress or finished papers which address the following
questions among others:  what are the communication strategies which
unions might employ effectively in a post-industrial society?  How have
women and minorities pursued their interests through trade union
structures in ways which strengthened the union as a collective?  How
have union political communications addressed the framing of unions as
special interest organizations?  What are the communication dimensions
of corporate campaigns?  We are equally interested in rhetorical studies
which address the historical rhetoric of labor movements and leaders,
especially in terms of contemporary significance.  All methodologies and
theoretical perspectives are welcome, however we are interested in
studies which are of general significance in line with the questions
raised above.

       Seminar Leaders: Ed Panetta, University of Georgia
                        Harold Schlechtweg, University of Massachusetts

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