{"id":2234,"date":"2024-05-20T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2024-05-21T21:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T02:00:46","slug":"a-note-from-the-chair-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"A Note from the Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JMC was busy in SP \u201924. Our updated curriculum is nearly ready for primetime. <em>The Murray State News<\/em> has a new vitality, both in-print and online. And several JMC faculty members have been recognized for their significant contributions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leigh Wright and Dr. Marcie Hinton were inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. The Murray State News received a Student Leadership Award from MSU\u2019s Office of Multicultural Initiatives. And Dr. Debbie Owens received the 2024 Dr. Steve Jones Faculty Excellence Award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be Dr Owens&#8217; last semester with us, as she is retiring after years of dedicated service to her students, the department, the university and \u201cthe academy.\u201d Dr. Owens sometimes spoke of &#8220;the academy\u201d to remind us that we are part of something much larger than a single university. And I always appreciated that perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these pages you can read about her career, about Professor Emeritus Roger Haney\u2019s new publication, and Dr. Hinton\u2019s students\u2019 latest study abroad experience. You can also read a Q&amp;A with Public Relations alumnus Heather Mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, thank you to Eliza Thomas, who is finishing her first year as editor\/publisher of <em>The JMC Journal<\/em>. I am really glad that she is including content about retired JMC faculty and our alumni as well as current students. We are all proud MSU-JMC Racers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMC was busy in SP \u201924. Our updated curriculum is nearly ready for primetime. The Murray State News has a new vitality, both in-print and online. And several JMC faculty members have been recognized for their significant contributions.&nbsp; Leigh Wright and Dr. Marcie Hinton were inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. The Murray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[40,18,33],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facultystaff","category-jmc-dept","tag-featured","tag-murray-state","tag-murray-state-jmc","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}