Communication Organizations
On-Campus
- Communication Studies Club
The Communication Studies Club often sponsors guest speakers, conducts discussions of undergrad student concerns and issues, holds social events and performs community service projects. All of these actions are performed to better our members and offer them opportunities to excel within the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. It's a great opportunity to get involved and meet new people!
The mission of the Communication Studies Club is to provide a forum at the University of Nebraska for interaction among and between students and faculty interested in the study, criticism, research, teaching and application of artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication studies.
Regional
- Central States Communication Association
Central States Communication Association (CSCA) is a professional, academic organization of primary and secondary school teachers, students, college and university professors, and communication professionals.
CSCA was founded in 1931 to promote the communication discipline in educational, scholarly, and professional endeavors. The association, which consists of the 13 Midwestern states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, is governed by an Executive Committee and is legislated by its constitution and by-laws.
CSCA has 22 Interest Groups, Caucuses, and Sections that promote particular communication areas. The association hosts a yearly convention within the 13 states, maintains a website (www.csca-net.org), publishes a newsletter three times yearly, and publishes the journal Communication Studies on a quarterly basis.
National
- National Communication Association
NCA is the oldest and largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education. Founded in 1914 as the National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking, the society incorporated in 1950 as the Speech Association of America. The organization changed its name to Speech Communication Association, in 1970. It adopted its present name in 1997. The purpose of the Association is to promote study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication.
NCA takes the lead in publicizing the discipline's scholarship through press releases and regular contacts with policy makers. When appropriate, NCA offers scholarship to support the development of governmental policy. Where proposed laws are of interest or potential concern, the NCA National Office staff notifies members so that they can make their opinions known to their representatives on Capitol Hill. NCA's sponsors an annual convention, which is the leading outlet for the discipline's scholarship.
NCA's summer conferences bring together scholars working in an emerging area of interest to exchange ideas. NCA publishes nine academic journals, which are the leading publications in their area of specialty.
NCA is a non-profit organization of approximately 7,700 educators, practitioners, and students who work and reside in every state and more than 20 foreign countries.
- Communication and Aging Division, National Communication Association
Research presented within the Communication and Aging Division primarily focuses on communication with, by, and about older adults, and how such communication relates to healthy and successful aging outcomes as we age across the life-span. Researchers in this area often draw on theories of lifespan development, communication accommodation, social identity, and intergroup behavior, to name a few. As such, much of the research on communication and aging merges with research in various intergenerational relationships, middle-aged and older adult relationships, including marital, sibling, parent-child relationships, provider-patient relationships, superior-subordinate relationships, intercultural relationships, as well as relationships within health care organizations and other contexts. The ways in which messages (e.g., in the media, in interpersonal communication) describe and represent older adults and the aging process is a central focus of the division.
