Judy VanSlyke Turk, professor in the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University, served as its director March 2002-2010. Previously, she was founding dean of the College of Communications and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, director of the journalism and mass communication program at Kent State University and a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Louisiana State University and Syracuse University. She is president of the Arab-U.S. Association of Communication educators and is a member of the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). VanSlyke Turk is past president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) and of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). In 2006, AEJMC recognized her as its Outstanding Woman in Journalism Education. She has been chair of AEJMC's teaching standards committee, Council of Divisions and the Public Relations Division. VanSlyke Turk is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society and past chair of the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society of America's College of Fellows. She was named Outstanding Public Relations Educator of PRSA in 1992, and in 2005 she shared the Pathfinder Award from the Institute for Public Relations with THIS IS PR co-author Doug Newsom for her lifetime contributions of research. She is associate editor of Journalism Studies and member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Journal, Public Relations Review and Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly. In addition to this text, she is co-editor of a collection of international case studies published by the Institute for Public Relations.
