The Graduate Studies Committee:
1. Maintains ongoing forum discussions with committee members about topics related to graduate studies issues.
2. Promotes and administers the Margaret Baker Graham Research Grant.
3. Promotes and administers the Graduate Student Travel Grant.
4. Establishes and updates guidelines, rules, regulations, criteria and rubric for assessing applications. Ensures they are made available on website and emailed to ABC members.
5. Lists Research Grant and Travel Grant winners in ABC newsletter and on the website.
6. Encourages graduate students to join the Association and participate in its conferences. Annually assesses and reports how graduate students who attend the annual conference heard about the conference.
7. Annually assesses and reports statistics on member status of previous Graduate Student Travel Grant recipients.
8. Develops publishable research related to graduate programs and graduate studies in business communication.
9. Gathers and disseminates curriculum information about graduate-level courses and programs related to business communication, especially at the doctoral level.
10. Encourages graduate students and graduate faculty to join the Association, participate in its conferences, and submit articles to its publications.
11. Organizes a panel/roundtable on graduate studies issues for the annual conference.
12. Works with the Research Committee to assess the status of business communication as an academic discipline and foster the perception of business communication as a discipline with a strong research base.
13. Requests committee members additions/drops by first logging into ABC and then completing this Committee Update Request form.
Committee Chair 2024
Matt Baker
Committee Members
| End of 3-Year Term |
|
| Tatiana Andrienko-Genin | 12/31/2026 |
| Matt Baker | 12/31/2026 |
| Tatiana Batova | 12/31/2025 |
| Stephen Carradini | 12/31/2024 |
| Rachael Dolechek | 12/31/2024 |
| Janis Forman | 12/31/2026 |
| Ashley Patriarca | 12/31/2024 |
| Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt | 12/31/2026 |
| Chenxing Xie | 12/31/2025 |
Recent Prior Chairs
Abigail Koenig, University of Louisville, 2022
Stephen Carradini, Arizona State University, 2018-2021
Matthew Sharp, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2015-2017
Quinn Warnick, Virginia Tech, 2010-2014
Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Elon University
Community Page
Members of the Graduate Studies Committee can access the committee’s forum and file library on their Community Page.