Laurel B. Kennedy
Vice President for Student Development Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Communication
Degree(s)
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D. Ohio University
Works
Presentations
- 鈥淚dentifying and Mitigating Students鈥 Financial Stressors鈥 (with Julie Tucker). ACPA鈥擟ollege Student Educators International Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 26-29, 2017.
- 鈥淧residential Session: Is my work making a difference for Independent college and university leaders? Seriously.鈥 Invited discussant at the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 12, 2016.
- 鈥淭oward justice on campus: Confronting a culture of sexual violence.鈥 Invited Discussant at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015.
- 鈥淯nderstanding current campus climate and culture.鈥 Panelists at the GLCA Summit on Campus Climate for Sexual Respect, Columbus, Ohio, December 2014.
- 鈥淐areer advancement to SSAO: Women from nontraditional career beginnings.鈥 Panelist at the NASPA Region IV-East Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 2014.
- 鈥淢ore than a Hunch: Assessing and Evaluating a Medical Amnesty Policy鈥檚 Effectiveness.鈥 (with Julie Tucker). OASPA/OCPA Annual Conference, January 30, 2014.
- 鈥淪tructuring a divisional assessment model: To centralize or not?鈥 (with Julie Tucker). Ohio Student Affairs Assessment Conference, Columbus, OH, July 2012.
- 鈥淔inding comfort with discomfort: Listening as an instrument of change.鈥 (with Erik Farley and Natalie Pariano), ACPA Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, March 2012.
- 鈥淪elf-efficacy, self-appraisals and the freshman male experience: Implications for advising.鈥 NASPA Annual meeting, Boston, MA, March 2008.
- 鈥淢eeting First-Year Students Through Their Work.鈥 (Poster Presentation), Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience, Addison, TX, February 2007.
Communication scholarship:
- 鈥淭he past without the pain: The manufacture of nostalgia in Vietnam鈥檚 tourism industry.鈥 with Mary Rose Williams, in Tai, Hue-Tam Ho (ed.), The Country of memory: Remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press (2002).
- 鈥淰ietnam seeks political stability and economic growth.鈥 Media Development 42(1), 11-13 (January 1995).
- 鈥淭elecommunication.鈥 In Jomo K.S. (ed.), Privatizing Malaysia: Rent, Rhetoric, Realities. Boulder: Westview Press (1995).
- 鈥淐ommunication development in Vietnam: The politics of planning.鈥 Gazette 51(3), 219-253 (Fall 1993).
Service
Community Service
- Licking Memorial Hospital, Newark, Ohio, Board of Directors, Secretary
- Rotary Club of Newark, Ohio, Member