Publishing Revisited...

Publishing is important...they say. I intrapersonally reply, "Important eh? I need to research something that has future implications in my life and in the lives of others... Can publishing accomplish this?"

Sure it can, publishing is important. Important enough for me to spend 7:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. polishing my faculty evaluation packet with current publications.

Believe it or not, I have almost 10 publications "in process". Now the term, "in process" is relative and can be misconstrued, thus begins the clarification process... For me, the term "in process" means that I have a Word 2007 document for the following topics (included by not limited to):

1. Engaging business and professional speaking students in a small group-based business plan competition.

2. Supports for and barriers to on-time graduation as perceived by Hispanic American undergraduate students attending historically black colleges and universities and historically white colleges and universities.

3. Student engagement and the high school science classroom.

4. Service learning and the intercultural communication classroom.

5. Communication among African American undergraduate students and academic advisers.

6. Undergraduate students’ perceptions of the future implications of facebook and myspace.