Announcements

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Special Issue on Enacting Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication

March 2022

Guest editors: Godwin Y. Agboka (University of Houston-Downtown) and Isidore Dorpenyo (George Mason University)

Recent incidents of police brutality and state-sanctioned murder of Black people have amplified the insidious cancer of systemic racism and inequality, injustice, White supremacy, privilege, oppression, bias, and discrimination against minority groups …

Call for Board of Governors (BoG) Nominations 2020

The IEEE Professional Communication Society is managed by a Board of Governors comprising 12 volunteers who work to assure that our society serves its members and the field of technical and professional communication. If you are interested in a higher level of involvement in the society …

ProComm 2020 is going online!

Dear Colleagues, 

In consideration for the safety of our participants, continued challenges to global travel, large gatherings, and reduced academic funding, IEEE ProComm 2020 has switched to a completely online format. While we are disappointed not to be meeting you at Kennesaw, we hope the event …

The June 2020 of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is Now Available

The new issue is now available online.

Research Articles:

Go or No Go: Learning to Persuade in an Early-Stage Student Entrepreneurship Program, by C. Spinuzzi, D. Altounian, and G. P. Pogue

Early-stage accelerator programs teach new entrepreneurs how to identify and exploit venture opportunities. In doing so, they implicitly …

Call for Nominations for IEEE Medals and Recognitions

IEEE is currently accepting nominations for the IEEE Medals and Recognitions, with a nomination deadline of 1 June 2020. 

All of the information pertaining to the awards, online submissions, and guidelines can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/content/ieee-org/en/about/awards/index.html/

Technical Communication Faculty and Program Coordinator Position at Virginia Tech

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech invites applications for a faculty position as the Mechanical Engineering Technical Communication Program Coordinator. This is a non-tenure track contract position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level depending on the qualifications of the candidate.

For details, …

Assistant/Associate Professor, Technical Communication at Mercer University

The Technical Communication Department (TCO) announces an opening for a tenure-track position at the Associate or Assistant Professor level. Applicants’ areas of emphasis should include content strategy, digital/social media, instructional design, technical writing/editing, or usability, as well as expertise in current industry standard tools. Candidates …

Candidates on Slate for 2020-2022 Board of Governors

A slate of seven candidates for election to the ProComm Board of Governors for 2020–2022 has been announced.

Alan Chong, University of TorontoKira Dreher, Carnegie Mellon University, QatarJoyce Karreman, University of TwenteChris Lam, University of North TexasBob Lyons, ConsultantLaura Patterson, The University of British ColombiaDoug Phillips, West Virginia University

The election schedule is as …