The museum is open by appointment for tours by schools and other groups. A wide range of panels and scholarly papers represented scholarship in more than 50 areas of communication study. NCA is the oldest and largest scholarly society for the communication discipline. Its membership includes individuals from the United States and more than 25 countries. NCA sponsors six scholarly journals, holds specialized conferences throughout the year, and promotes the work of communication scholars to a variety of constituencies.
Schools build national reputations based upon their work at the conference.
Digest is a new service of the Jim Self Center for the Future at Clemson University's Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs. The digest is a roundup of current news about education topics from national, regional and South Carolina newspapers. The digest also includes access to articles about current topics from education publications. The site is updated weekly. A sample of topics in a recent edition included school finance in New Hampshire, a study claiming school systems are unprepared for Y2K bug, Presidential candidate John McCain's proposal for billions for school vouchers, GOP support for vouchers in new school plan, the increase in home schooling and efforts to end social promotion in the Southeast, and charter schools in South Carolina.