Communication Day | Department of Communication at USF

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Communication Day
Communication Day is an annual day of celebration by the faculty, staff, and students that dates back approximately 30 years. Although the individual events vary each year, it includes scholarly presentations or performances by undergraduate or graduate students, inducting the new Lambda Pi Eta members, and since 1989, the Grazier Lecture. The day culminates in an awards’ dinner.

Grazier Lecture
The annual Grazier Lecture is made possible by a generous endowment by Catherine Grazier Coit, who was a major in the Communication department. Ms. Coit made this gift in honor of her father, Allen C. Grazier, who was a great champion of publication education in Florida, serving under two governors. The Grazier Lecturer is selected each year by the faculty of the Department of Communication to honor a distinguished scholar in the field of communication.

Grazier Lecturers

2008: Karen Tracy, University of Colorado
“It’s What’s Right for Children: Ordinary Democracy’s Dilemmas”

2007 Bruce Gronbeck, University of Iowa
2006 Michael Hyde, Wake Forest University
2005 Tom Frentz, University of Arkansas
2004 Donna Nudd, Florida State University
2003 H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr., Arizona State University
2002 Larry Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2001 Marsha Vanderford, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2000 John Stewart, University of Washington (now at Dubuque University)
1999 Paul H. Gray, University of Texas (emeritus)
1998 Alex Harris, Duke University
1997 Mark McPhail, University of Utah (now at Southern Methodist University)
1996 Kristen Langellier, University of Maine
1995 Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1994 Glen Stamp, Ball State University
1993 None
1992 Bob Ivie, Indiana University
1991 Mark Knapp, University of Texas (emeritus)
1990 Sam Becker, University of Iowa (emeritus)
1989 Josh Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire