SRU faculty and students contribute to PCA convention

Oct. 3, 2023

Slippery Rock University hosted the Pennsylvania Communication Association Annual Convention, Sept. 29-30, at the Smith Student Center, and several SRU faculty and students presented at the meeting, served as panelists or were recognized. The PCA is a statewide professional organization that promotes teaching, research, service and development of all areas of human communication.

Ashley Farrell, a senior strategic communication media major from Springdale, and Jadyn Furge, a senior strategic communication and media major from Gibsonia, were awarded the Voices of Tomorrow College Communicator of the Year award by the Pennsylvania Communication Association. The award recognizes students who excel in curricular and extracurricular communication work, who use communication skills in a service capacity, and who demonstrate promise of future leadership through communication.

Farrell and Furge were nominated because of their leadership as co-presidents of the College Dress Relief. Their social media content promoted CDR’s values of inclusivity, self-expression and fashion sustainability and reflected PCA’s 2023 theme “Sustaining Communities.”

SRU faculty and students who presented or served as panelists at the PCA convention include:

• Aksel Casson, associate professor of nonprofit management, empowerment, and diversity studies.
• Franklyn Charles, assistant professor of strategic communication and media.
• Daniel Dieter, assistant professor of strategic communication and media.
• Tarek Eshak, assistant professor of public health.
• Brittany Fleming, associate professor of strategic communication and media.
• Heather Frederick, professor of political science.
• Zachary Gibson, a senior strategic communication and media major from New Castle.
• Leah Harris, a sophomore history major from Portersville.
• Fadoua Loudiy, assistant professor of strategic communication and media.
• Ariana Mixter, a junior strategic communication and media major from New Brighton.
• Enoh Nkana, assistant professor of elementary education and early childhood.
• Douglas Strahler, associate professor of strategic communication and media.
• Allison Peiritsch, associate professor of strategic communication and media.
• Alessia Zanin-Yost, associate professor, library.