Duo conducts communications workshop for extension agents
Dr. Bob McGaughey and Bob Valentine, faculty members in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, conducted a workshop for Kentucky extension agents and their staffs Dec. 8 at Barkley Lake Park.
The agents and staffs were from District 7, which covers the Purchase and Pennyrile regions.
McGaughey and Valentine covered problems and solutions on effectively communicating with meetings, telephones, face-to-face, e-mail and other social media.
The two also taught the first course of the Professional Master of Business Administration (PMBA) program in Henderson this fall.
McGaughey, a retired professor and former chairman of the JMC Department, has been a member of the faculty since 1969. He has been named both the Max Carman Outstanding Teacher and the Distinguished Professor by the MSU Alumni Association.
In 1987 he was named the Frank Stanton Fellow (Distinguished Broadcast Professor by the International Radio and TV Society.
Valentine, who joined the faculty in 1974, teaches advertising and the beginning course for all of the majors in the JMC Department. He was selected as the Regents Teaching Award winner for the College of Business in 2009.
He is known for his portrayal of Mark Twain, Thomas Edison and, most recently, Nathan B. Stubblefield. His portrayal of the Murray inventor has appeared over educational television stations across the country. This summer he lectured on and performed as Mark Twain in Regensburg, Germany.
McGaughey and Valentine have been conducting workshops and speaking at meetings/conventions on communications since 1978.