Forum response: sustaining ourselves as scholars

In our classrooms, the trauma-informed practices and student-centered pedagogies can be read as resistance to enduring and outdated pedagogical practices as well as a "back to normal" or "business as usual" approaches to the ongoing effects of COVID-19 (Cartee;Raptis). As the COVID-19 pandemic and its lingering effects have shown us, long-term sustenance of ourselves and others as learners, teachers, scholars, and human beings is perhaps most worthy of our focus when cultivating a meaningful career - more so than traditional measures of productivity and success. Hosek and Verhoff complement these institutional and classroom-level considerations with their essay on crafting a sustainable career, emphasizing personal agency. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Communication Education is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

What communication skills do other disciplines value most? A communication across the curriculum needs analysis

This study sought to gain insight into how faculty in other disciplines perceive communication skills as well as to conduct a needs analysis that can help us to develop resources to support faculty who are integrating communication assignments into their disciplinary courses. Survey data were collected from 232 faculty at three large, public universities, and qualitative follow-up interviews were conducted with 12 faculty across institutions and disciplines. Results showed that there is wide variation in the complexity with which our colleagues define communication. Group and interaction skills were among the most valued communication skills, along with a variety of presentation skills. While explanatory and argumentation skills were highly valued, they are also areas where growth is needed. Online and mediated communication skills were rated as least important in the survey that was completed prior to COVID-19, but were discussed as an emerging need in the interviews conducted during the pandemic. [ FROM AUTHOR]