Term: 2007-2011

Dr. Archibald is currently the director of Translation Studies at McGill University, where he teaches writing techniques for translators, French usage for translators, and translation theory. He has also taught communications and management at McGill. He received a B. A. from McGill; a B. Ph. from Montréal;and L. ès L., M. ès L., Doctorat de 3e cycle from Lille. His research interests are in organizational communication, translation and language policy. He serves as the accredited representative of McGill University’s Office of International Research to the World Summit on the Information Society, and he is a member of several research groups including Orbicom (UNESCO Chairs in Communication) and CAST (Canadian Association of Schools of Translation). A long-standing ABC and MLA member, Dr. Archibald has served on the MLA-ABC Joint Committee since its inception. Dr. Archibald is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Michael B. Goodman, Ph.D., is Professor at Baruch College/ City University of New York, where he is also Director of the MA Program in Corporate Communication. He is Founder and Director of CCI (Corporate Communication International www.corporatecomm.org). He is Adjunct Professor of Corporate Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he was Professor and Director of the MA Program in Corporate and Organizational Communication. He is Visiting Professor of Corporate Communication at Aarhus School of Business (Denmark), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Bangkok University, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

He has published widely, including most recently: Work with Anyone Anywhere: A Guide to Global Business and Corporate Communication for Executives.

He is on the Editorial Advisory Board and Associate Editor for North America of Corporate Communication: An International Journal (UK). He is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society; a Fellow of the RSA (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce), London; a Fellow of The Society for Technical Communication; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Business Communication.

He has been a consultant to more than 40 corporations and institutions on corporate communication, managerial communication, problem-solving, new business proposals, change, and corporate culture.

Term: 2008-2012

Geert Jacobs teaches business communication at the Department of Language and Communicationat Ghent University (Belgium). He has recently co-authored a textbook for undergraduate students
of Business English and he has supervised several on-line learning projects. Since 2002 he’s been co-responsible for Ghent University’s highly successful postgraduate programme in Multilingual Business Communication. Geert received a PhD in Linguistics in 1997 from the University of Antwerp, where he wrote a dissertation on the metapragmatics of press releases. His research focuses on the study of professional and institutional discourse, with a special interest in news production processes and PR. He has recently founded the international NewsTalk&Text research group (NT&T) to promote and pool further efforts in this area. Geert has published research articles in a wide range of international, peer-reviewed journals.Together with Luuk Van Waes and Liesbeth Opdenacker he received ABC’s Outstanding Article Award of the year 2005 in the Business Communication Quarterly.

Term: 2006-2010

Dale Cyphert, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the department of management at the University of Northern Iowa. With degrees in speech communication, rhetoric and public relations, Cyphert's career has included managerial positions in public relations, personnel, retail operations, and workplace training. Cyphert teaches courses in business communication, communication management and administers the MBA program's capstone team consulting experience. She frequently offers short courses to business clients through the college's Management and Professional Development Center.

Term: 2008-2012

William C. Sharbrough, Ph.D. (Louisiana State University) is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and head of the Management & Marketing Division of The Citadel School of Business Administration in Charleston, SC, where he teaches a variety of management and communication courses at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. William has published articles on communication and management issues in a variety of journals including The Business Communication Quarterly/ABCA Bulletin, Journal of Education for Business, and Journal of Systems Management. During his career, he has presented over 35 papers and presentations before academic meetings. He was awarded as an “Outstanding Scholar” by ABC-SWUS in 2000. William’s latest publication is a coauthored article, “Motivating Language in Industry: Its Impact on Job Satisfaction and Perceived Supervisor Effectiveness,” published in The Journal of Business Communication, October 2006,

Debbie DuFrene, Vice President

Southwestern United States 

Stephen F. Austin State University

Term: 2007-2011

Debbie DuFrene is Professor of Business Communication and Chair of the Department of General Business at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where she also serves as Assistant Dean for Assessment.

She holds the bachelors and masters degrees from Nicholls State University, and the doctorate from University of Houston. Debbie has been a member of ABC since 1985 and has served as president, vice-president/program chair, and secretary-treasurer for the ABC Southwest U.S. region. She is a regular presenter at ABC conferences and has published several articles in BCQ, along with a host of other publications. She is coauthor of Business Communication (Cengage, 2008) and Building High Performance Teams (Cengage, 2008) and co-sponsor of the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teaching Award for ABC.

Jackie Jankovich Hartman, Vice President 

Western United States

Colorado State University

Term: 2006-2010

Jackie Jankovich Hartman is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business at Colorado State University where she specializes in Organizational/Strategic Communication and Management at the undergraduate, graduate, and MBA executive levels. Jackie has taught in Colleges of Business for 20 years at both Kansas State and Colorado State Universities. As a proponent of organizational communication, Jackie has been instrumental in starting an organizational communication track for the Western Decision Sciences Institute. She is also an active researcher, with articles published in such journals as Business Communication Quarterly, Empowerment in Organisations, Performance Improvement Quarterly, and The Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice.