Dr. Roger Conaway (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University) serves as Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Speech Communication. He teaches Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Listening, and Freedom of Speech. Dr. Conaway is Pirtle Professor of Communication, 2008-2009. Research interests include business communication, intercultural and organizational communication, and interviewing. Dr. Conaway is the co-author of Results-Oriented Interviewing: Principles, Practices, Procedures, 1999 (Allyn & Bacon) and Communicating Globally: Intercultural Communication And International Business, 2007 with Sage Publishers. Professor Conaway is the Current President of the Association for Business Communication. In 2008, Dr. Conaway received the Association for Business Communication Southwest Region "Outstanding Researcher Award." In 2002, he received with William J. Wardrope the Irwin-McGraw-Hill Distinguished Paper Award from the Federation of Business Disciplines. He has presented over 30 professional papers at international, national, and regional conferences and conducted workshops in the areas of interviewing, and intercultural diversity.

Dr. Marsha Little Matthews (Ph.D., The University of Oklahoma) serves as Assistant Professor of Journalism. Dr. Matthews teaches Writing for Mass Media, Writing for Public Relations and Advertising, Principles of Public Relations, Public Relations and Advertising Campaigns, and Media Design. Research interests include meaning making, creativity and loss, the relationship of meaning making and critical thinking, and sense making in public relations/communication campaign development. Articles have appeared in the Journal of the Philosophy and History of Education. She serves as a faculty Senator representing the College of Arts and Sciences and also serves as Secretary for the University Faculty Senate.