Resume
Barbara
F. Luebke
Department of Journalism • University of Rhode Island
(401) 874-5490
bfluebke@mail.uri.edu • www.uri.edu/artsci/jor/luebke.htm
With experience in Academic
Affairs as an Undergraduate Studies Dean, Special Assistant to a VPAA and Department
Chair, along with 34 years as a faculty member at a variety of educational institutions,
I am committed to public higher education. Among my classroom and administrative
strengths are creativity, versatility and productivity. The guiding principle
in all that I do is academic excellence.
Professional
Experience
• Professor of Journalism,
University of Rhode Island (July 1999-present)
• Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Fitchburg (Mass.) State College (July
1998-July 1999)
• Special Assistant to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
University of Rhode Island (September 1995-December 1996)
• Professor of Journalism and Women's Studies and chairwoman, Department
of Journalism, University of Rhode Island (1993-1998)
• Associate professor of Journalism and Women's Studies (with tenure)
and chairwoman, Department of Journalism, University of Rhode Island (1989-1993)
• Associate professor and journalism program director, Department of
Communication, Universityof Hartford (Connecticut) (1984-1989)
• Part-time features copy editor, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant
(1985-1989)
• Associate professor (with tenure), School of Journalism, University
of Missouri, and news editor, Columbia Missourian (1983-1984)
• Assistant professor, School of Journalism, University of Missouri,
and assistant news editor, Columbia Missourian (1981-1983)
• Instructor, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and assistant
news editor, Columbia Missourian (1980-1981)
• Instructor, Department of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
(1977-1980)
• Instructor, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and assistant
news editor, Columbia Missourian (1974-1977)
• News editor, DeKalb (Ill.) Daily Chronicle (1973-1974)
• Society editor and news reporter, Antigo (Wis.) Daily Journal
(1972-1973)
• Other: "Professor in the Newsroom," La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune
(July-August 1979); assistant People editor, Columbia Missourian
(May-August 1978); Newspaper Fund copy editing intern, Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal
(summer 1970); reporting intern, Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette (summer
1969)
• The Assessment
Institute (three days), sponsored by the National Center on Postsecondary
Teaching, Learning and Assessment (April 1999)
• American Press
Institute's Journalism Educators Seminar (one week), University of Nevada-Reno
(September 1994)
• HERS-Bryn Mawr
Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration (one month),
Bryn Mawr College (Summer 1994)
• Eighth Annual
Leadership Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication Educators (one
week), sponsored by the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Columbia University
(June 1992)
• ACE Department
Chair's Workshop, University of New Hampshire (February 1990)
• American Press
Institute's Journalism Educators Seminar (one week), Reston, Virginia (October
1985)
• Ph.D. University
of Missouri, May 1981; degree in journalism (history, role of media in society)
with secondary work in sociology and political science; dissertation: "Elias
Boudinot, Cherokee Editor: The Father of American Indian Journalism"
• M.S. University
of Oregon, June 1972; degree in journalism with secondary work in political
science; thesis: "Profiles of The Navajo Times and DinÈ Baa-Hani: A Preliminary
Examination of Two Navajo Newspapers"
• B.A. University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; journalism major, English minor
• Co-author with
Mary Ellen Reilly of Women's Studies Graduates: The First Generation,
Teachers College Press, 1995
• Editor, Missourian
Manual, 3rd ed., University of Missouri School of Journalism, January
1984
• Editor, Missourian
Manual, 2nd ed., University of Missouri School of Journalism, January
1982
• Editor, VDT
Manual, revised ed., University of Missouri School of Journalism, September
1976
Book Chapters
• "Elias Boudinot
and 'Indian Removal' " (chapter solicited) in Outsiders in 19th-Century
Press History, ed. Frankie Hutton and Barbara Straus Reed, Bowling Green
State University Popular Press, 1996.
• American Indian
and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1971-1985, ed. by Daniel
F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins, Greenwood Press, 1986. [I wrote profiles
of three publications: Great Lakes Indian Press, p. 173; Inter-Tribal Tribune,
pp. 224-225; WNASA Newsletter, p. 525.]
• American Indian
and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1925-1970, ed. by Daniel
F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins, Greenwood Press, 1986. [I wrote profiles
of three publications: Dine Baa-Hani, pp. 106-110; Indian Council Talk, pp.
182-183; Navajo Times Today, pp. 277-287.]
• The Art of
Editing, Baskette, Sissors and Brooks, Macmillan, 3rd ed. 1982, 4th ed.
1986, 5th ed. 1992. [I contributed an essay on "editing for stereotypes,"
pp. 127-133 in 5th ed.]
Refereed Articles
• "Commentary: On
Backlash Against Academic Women's Studies," with Mary Ellen Reilly, in NWSAction,
vol. 6 no. 2 (Spring 1995)
• "Commentary: No
More Content Analyses," Newspaper Research Journal, 13: 1&2 (Winter/Spring
1992), pp. 2-9 (accepted April 1991)
• "Out of Focus:
Images of Women and Men in Newspaper Photographs," Sex Roles, 20:3/4
(February 1989), pp. 121-133
• " 'First Woman'
Stories: A Sign of Progress or More Special Treatment?" Women's Studies
In Communication, 9:1 (Spring 1986), pp. 30-35
• "News About Women
on the 'A' Wire,' Journalism Quarterly, 62:2 (Summer 1985), pp. 329-333
• "UMC Research
on Women and the Media: An Annotated Bibliography," Ideas/Research You
Can Use from the Missouri School of Journalism, 1:4 (1985), pp. 19-27
• "The Jesus Speech:
An Assignment for Novice Newswriters," Journalism Educator, 40:2 (Summer
1985), pp. 34-36
• "Elias Boudinot,
Indian Editor: Columns From the Cherokee Phoenix," Journalism History,
6:2 (Summer 1979), pp. 48-53
• "Sizzle Quiz,"
Journalism Educator, 32:4 (January 1978), pp. 14-15
Non-Refereed Articles
• " 'First Woman'
Stories Strain for Significance," op-ed page, The Hartford Courant,
November 18, 1984
• "Two Polls on
Investigative Reporting," The IRE Journal, March 1982
• "Perils of Publishing,"
Grassroots Editor, December 1981, pp. 9-10, 14-15
• "Sell the Sizzle,"
Quill, April 1976, pp. 24-25
Reports
• "When Is a Reporter
Not a Reporter?" Freedom of Information Center Report No. 384, January
1978
• "The Commercial
Speech Doctrine," Freedom of Information Center Report No. 372, May
1977
• "A Self-Managing
Press? Don't Stop the Presses!" the Foundation for National Progress, San
Francisco, 1977
• "Textbook Censorship:
New Aspects," Freedom of Information Center Report No. 349, February
1976
• "Women's Studies
Graduates: The First Generation," with Mary Ellen Reilly, National Women's
Studies Association Conference, Ames, Iowa (June 1994)
• "Making News:
A Strategy for Challenging the Media," New England Women's Studies Association
annual conference, Kingston, Rhode Island (April 1990)
• "Celebrating Diversity,"
The Senior Year Experience conference, Atlanta, Georgia (March 1990)
• "Out of Focus:
Images of Women and Men in Newspaper Photographs," University of Hartford
Humanities Center public lecture (April 1986)
• "Where Are the
'Second Woman' Stories?" annual convention of the Eastern Communication Association,
Providence, Rhode Island (May 1985)
• "Elias Boudinot,
Father of American Indian Journalism," annual conference of the Society for
Historians of the Early American Republic, Indianapolis, Indiana (July 1984)
• "News of Women
on the UPI 'A' Wire: Preliminary Findings," Midwest Regional Conference of
the National Women's Studies Association, Columbia, Missouri (April 1984)
• "Elias Boudinot,
Cherokee Editor," Conference on American Indian Journalism, (presentation
invited) Madison, Wisconsin (April 1982). [Proceedings published as Native
American Press in Wisconsin and the Nation, ed. James P. et al., University
of Wisconsin Library School, Summer 1982, pp. 121-131.]
Funded
Grant Proposals
• $75,000 from the
Freedom Forum to bring a Professional in Residence to the Department of Journalism
for the 1998-99 academic year (May 1998)
• $2,000 from the
URI Partnership for the Coastal Environment to publish Ram ScOpe, a magazine
created to showcase journalism studentsº work (Spring 1998)
• $2,115 from URI
Foundation to support creation of "THE SOURCE: Preparing Tomorrowºs Journalists
and Providing News to Rhode Island," a World Wide Web-based site (April 1998)
• $300 from URI
Faculty Development Fund to attend Journalism Educators Seminar, Reno, Nevada
(September 1994)
• $850 (with M.E.
Reilly) from URI College of Arts & Sciences to support research for Women's
Studies Graduates: The First Generation (Fall 1991)
• $500 (with M.E.
Reilly) from URI Faculty Development Fund to support research for Women's
Studies Graduates: The First Generation (Fall 1991)
• $400 from URI
Faculty Development Fund to present paper at The Senior Year Experience Conference,
Atlanta, Georgia (March 1990)
• $176,000 from
The Champlin Foundations to computerize the Journalism Department's Reporting/Writing/
Editing Lab (November 1989)
• Humanities Fellowship,
University of Hartford; release time to prepare "Images of Women in Newspaper
Photographs" (August 1985-June 1986)
• Women's Research
Institute, Hartford College for Women; office space, library privileges and
staff support for research project, "Images of Women and Men in Eight Connecticut
Newspapers" (1986-87)
My teaching specialty
is editing, but only at the University of Missouri were my responsibilities
almost exclusively in that area. I have taught most courses in the "traditional"
news-editorial journalism curriculum. I developed and taught the first online
journalism class at URI. I have taught a general education "Introduction to
Mass Media" course in small- and medium-sized settings and to Native Americans
in a weekend degree program. I also have taught a graduate-level mass media
course. I designed an introduction-to-the major course at URI called "Foundations
of American Journalism," which includes a bit of journalism history, philosophy,
ethics, sociology and literature. I helped design and obtained permanent-course
status for "Women and Media" at the University of Missouri. At the University
of Hartford, I helped design and team-teach several summer workshop courses;
the one I am most proud of is "Celebrating Diversity," which I proposed and
taught with a colleague from political science. Also at Hartford, I designed
a literature of journalism course called "Perspectives on Reporting," which
I brought with me to URI and now teach regularly. I was in the first wave of
faculty to teach URI's new introductory course required of all first-year students.
Journalism is, by its nature, hands-on, but I believe in experiential learning
in all of my classes. For example, in Fall 1996 my "Women and Media" class conducted
original research. When I taught "Feature Writing," my classes produced supplements
that were published by the student newspaper. Finally, I also should note that
I was major professor for numerous master's degree students at the University
of Missouri, served on graduate committees at the University of Hartford, and
serve on master's and Ph.D. committees at URI. See more about my courses on
my web site.
• Recognized for
teaching excellence by Dean of Arts and Sciences (2007)
• Who's Who Among
America's Teachers (2004-2005)
• Scholar in Residence,
Women's Research Institute, Hartford College for Women (1986-87)
• National Teaching
Award in Newspaper Design/Graphics, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St.
Petersburg, Florida (June 1986)
• Humanities Fellow,
University of Hartford (August 1985-June 1986)
Association of Arts
and Sciences Deans, 1998-1999
Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1975-present
• Task Force on
Minority Affairs; three-year term; designed, conducted Textbook Content Survey
• Subcommittee on
the Status of Women; one-year term
• Correspondents
Fund Committee; one-year term; evaluated applications, allocated scholarships
• Newspaper Division
member; judge for convention papers competition, 1991-present
• Commission on
the Status of Women member; judge for convention papers competition, 1992-present
Association of Schools
of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1989-1998
• Elected to Publications
Committee, 1992-94
Investigative Reporters
and Editors, 1989-1998
New England Women's
Studies Association, 1990-1995
URI Association of Professional
and Academic Women, 1989-present
• Elected to Steering
Committee, 1991-94
• Named by President
to Search Advisory Committee for Athletic Director
• Named by Faculty
Senate to Search Advisory Committee for Provost/VPAA
• Named by President
to chair Search Advisory Committee for Vice President for Business
and Finance
• Named by Provost
to chair Search Advisory Committee for Registrar
• Named by Dean
of Arts and Sciences to chair Search Advisory Committee for Department
of English chair
• Named by Provost
as member of Search Advisory Committee for Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Senate
Appointed to
the Senate in January 1992 to fill three-semester vacancy; elected to own seat
in May 1993
• Elected vice
chairperson of the Senate for 1992-1993
• Elected chairperson
for 1993-1994
• Re-elected
chairperson for 1994-1995
Elected to the Senate for
2004-2007
• Elected to Executive Committee 2005-2006
• Elected vice chairperson 2006-2007
Curricular Affairs Committee
(2002-2005 term, 2005-2008 term; chair 2004-2008)
Athletics Advisory Board
(2007-2010 term / chair effective January 2007; 2004-2007 term; 1995-1998
term; 1990-1993 term)
Students Rights and Responsibilities
Committee, 2000-2004
Chair, Academic
Standards and Calendar Committee for 2000-2001 and 2001-2002
University College/General
Education Committee, 1990-1993
Other
• Faculty Athletics
Representative to the NCAA, January 2007-present
• Online Learning Committee (2006-present)
• URI Athletics Hall of Fame Committee (2006-present; 2002-2004)
• Chair, Academic Standards Subcommittee of NEASC Accreditation
Steering Committee (2006-2007)
• Joint Strategic Planning Committee (2005-2007)
• Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Early Registration (2006-2007)
• Presidential Task Force on Campus Security (2000-2002)
• Gender Equity in Athletics Task Force (1996-1997)
• President's "Open Spaces" planning group (Summer 1996)
• Chair,
Organization and Governance Subcommittee of NEASC Accreditation Steering Committee
(1996-1997)
• Fiscal Integrity
Subcommittee of NCAA Certification Steering Committee (1996-1997)
• Student
Commencement Speaker Selection Committee (March 1996)
• Liberal
Arts Core Committee (1995-1996)
• President's
ad hoc Advisory Committee; developed Program Contribution Analysis planning
tool (April-August 1995)
• Discussion
Leader, annual Women's Leadership Summit at URI (April 1995)
• Freshman
Seminar Advisory Committee (1995-1998)
• Joined Psychology
Department chairman and Women's Studies Program director in organizing "Fit
to Serve: Gays, Lesbians and the Military," a daylong conference at the University
of Rhode Island; we raised $6,000 to bring to campus six of the most important
scholars and participants in this debate (April 1992)
• Public Relations
subcommittee of Centennial Planning Committee (May-December 1991)
• College
of Arts & Sciences Scholastic Standing and Petition Committee (elected) (1991-93)
• URI Graduate
Faculty, and member of master's and Ph.D. comprehensive, thesis and dissertation
committees (1990-present)
• Women's
Studies Advisory Committee (1989-1998)
• Speakers'
Bureau volunteer (1989-present)
Department
• Coordinated intrdisciplinary
Public Relations major (2004-2007)
• Initiated department's
Web site (www.uri.edu/artsci/jor) and supervised its development (1997); webmaster
since 2000
• Developed, wrote
and produced Journalism Department's first Student's Handbook (Summer 1995)
• Organized faculty
retreat that resulted in revised Mission Statement, Statement on Collaborative
Learning, identification of Student Outcomes and creation of Assessment procedure
(Fall 1994)
• University College
advising of (80 to 100 first- and second-year majors (1991-present)
• Organized faculty
retreat that resulted in major curriculum revision (Fall 1989)
• Chair of all departmental
search committees (1989-1998)
University of Hartford
Women's Studies Steering
Committee (1985-89)
Arts & Sciences Committee
on Academic Standing (1987-89)
Arts & Sciences Honors
Committee (1986-87)
Arts & Sciences Graduate
Committee (1985-86)
"Semester in Washington"
Advisory Committee (1985-89)
Coordinator Massaro Award
writing competition (1985-89)
University of Missouri
University Women Studies
Committee (1983-84)
Chair, School of Journalism's
75th Anniversary Committee (1983-84)
Journalism School Graduate
Admissions Committee (1982-84)
Journalism School Graduate
Studies Committee (1980-84)
Chair Editorial Department
Advisory Committee (1981-84)
Editorial Department Promotion
and Tenure Committee (1983-84)
Editorial Department Curriculum
Committee (1980-83)
Co-advisor to Sigma Delta
Chi journalism fraternity (1981-82)
Journalism Alumni Newspaper
Editor (1981-82)
University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire
Journalism Department Curriculum
Committee
Founder of campus chapter
of Kappa Tau Alpha, journalism honor society
"Stereotyping in the Mass
Media, Community Outreach speaker
Selected Professional Service
• Interviewed on
WRNI radio about OJ Simpson book (Nov. 20, 2006)
• Judge, Metcalf
Diversity in the Media Awards (2006)
• Reviwer, Creative
Editing 4th ed. for Thomson Wadsworth (2006)
• Reviewer, America's
Best Newspaper Writing 2nd ed for Bedford/St. Martin's; quoted in promotional
material (2006)
• Judge, Air Combat
Command's Print Media Contest (2005)
• Reviewer, editing
text manuscript chapters for Allyn and Bacon (2003)
• Judge, New England
Associated Press Newspaper Editors Association Cyber Site Contest (March 2000)
• Judge, Providence
Journal-Bulletin Scholastic Journalism Competition (1990-present)
• Reader for the
women's studies chapter in Lingua Francaºs The Real Guide to Grad School,
rev. ed. (fall 2000)
• Rhode Island Press
Associationºs annual Media Day, session moderator (October 2007, November
2002; November 1999)
• "Accuracy in Reporting
on Science: Case Study," annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Seattle (February 1997)
• Newport (R.I.)
Daily News critique (May 1996)
• Founding member
Rhode Island Partnership for Research on Women and Gender (Fall 1995)
• "The Training
of Journalists" presentation to Leadership Rhode Island (Spring 1995)
• Organized workshop
on „Media Relations¾ for wastewater treatment plant supervisors, sponsored
by State Office of Training and Development (February 1995)
• "Using Inclusive
Language," presentation at Girl Scouts weekend retreat (February 1994)
• Manuscript Review
for the journal Women and Criminal Justice (September 1992)
• Co-director, New
England Newspaper Association convention newspaper (April 1992)
• Manuscript review
for Marine Technological Society (September 1991)
• Panelist, "The
Humanities: Keep Pace or How To Find Its Place in the Ever Changing General
Education Requirements," symposium sponsored by Rhode Island Council on the
Humanities (April 24, 1991)
• Co-organizer of
a Workshop for Journalists Reporting on Municipal Affairs (March 18, 1991)
• Presented "Agenda-Setting
and the Media," URI Honors Colloquium (February 12-14, 1991)
• "Journalism Education
at URI," presentation to the Rhode Island Press Association board of directors
(February 9, 1990)
• Participant in
research project, "It's Lonely at the Top: Women Administrators Too Few and
Far Between," conducted by Judy VanSlyke Turk, then director of journalism
at Kent State University (March 1990)
• "Contemporary
Research on Women and Media," presentation to Women in Journalism class, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst (April 1989)
• "Sexism in Connecticut
Newspapers," presentation to the Women's Research Institute, Hartford College
for Women (March 1989)
• "Can Men and Women
Be Friends?" public program presented by University of Hartford Women's Studies
Steering Committee (October 1988)
• "When Science
Crosses the Copy Desk," Gatekeepers Workshop for News, Copy, Feature and Wire
Editors, Science Journalism Center, Columbia, Missouri (Nov. 5-7, 1987)
Date Rape Workshop for
sororities and fraternities, program presented by University of Hartford Women's
Studies Steering Committee (November 1987)
• "Can I Have It
All? Will I Want It When I Get It?" presentation for "A Dialogue on Women's
Lives" sponsored by American College Personnel Association, Connecticut College
Personnel Association and Women's Network of the University of Hartford (October
1987)
• "Women in Media:
The Rise to the Top," panel sponsored by Hartford College for Women (February
1987)
• Editorial Board,
Native Press Journal (1985-1988)
• Reviewer, Mass
Communication Division of Eastern Communication Association, 1985 paper competition
• Participant, Journalism
Education Symposium sponsored by New England Newspaper Association, Vermont
Press Association, Burlington Free Press, St. Michael's College, Winooski,
Vermont (October 1984)
• Judge, Science
Writers Award of the Missouri Dental Association (Spring 1984)
• "Images of Women
in the Media," public program at University of Missouri Women's Center (April
1984)
• Managing editor,
IRE Journal (September 1983-July 1984)
• "Reading the Fine
Print: Sexism and the Media," public program at University of Missouri Women's
Center (January 1983)
• Workshops on editing
for Brazilian journalists, University of Missouri (Summer 1982)
• Judge, IRE annual
competition (1982-1984)
• "Editing for Stereotypes,"
seminars for Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Summer Editing Workshops (1980-1984)
• Judge, Inland
Daily Press Association public service award (1980-1984)
• Screening judge,
J.C. Penney-Missouri magazine writing contest (Spring 1981)
• Reviewed prospectus,
"Sex Roles and Mass Media: Issues and Conflicts," Iowa State University Press
(1981)
• Invited to conduct
workshops on stereotyping in the mass media for Iowa Conference on Multi-Cultural,
Non-Sexist Approaches to the Language Arts Curriculum, Ames, Iowa (March 1978)
• Faculty member,
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund summer editing "crash courses" (1976, 1977)
Selected Community Service
• Organized campus
"Walk to D'Feet ALS" (Fall 2007)
• Appointed by Rhode
Island Gov. Lincoln Almond to URI Convocation Center Steering Committee (1998)
• Founding member,
URI Women's Basketball Booster Club; founding editor of its newsletter (1995)
• Moderated "Meet
the School Committee Candidates Night" sponsored by League of Women Voters
of South Kingstown/Narragansett (October 1994)
• "Using Inclusive
Language," presentation to area Girl Scouts at their Weekend Retreat (February
1994)
• "Adopt-A-Family"
program of the Women's Resource Center of South County (1992-present)
• Moderated Institute
for International Sport Seminar presentation (August 1990)
• "Images of Women
in the Media," presentation to Hartford chapter of the Older Women's League
(May 1987)
• Coordinator, Christian
Science Monitor international video conference, West Hartford, Connecticut
(April 1986)
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