Judy Vanslyke Turk

Judy VanSlyke Turk is the Director of the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University and was founding dean of the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to that, she was dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, director of the journalism and mass communication program at Kent State University, and a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Louisiana State...See more

Judy VanSlyke Turk is the Director of the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University and was founding dean of the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to that, she was dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, director of the journalism and mass communication program at Kent State University, and a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Louisiana State University and Syracuse University. Dr. VanSlyke Turk is past president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. She has represented AEJMC on the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and served two terms as a member of AEJMC's elected Standing Committee on Teaching Standards. She has been chair of the Teaching Standards Committee and is former chair of AEJMC's Council of Divisions and its Public Relations Division. Currently, Dr. VanSlyke Turk is a member of the Commission on Public Relations Education. She was a member of the Public Relations Society of America's Strategic Planning Committee and the Task Force on the Future of Public Relations. She is past chair of PRSA's College of Fellows and a PRSA Outstanding Educator. She is co-editor of Journalism Studies, a refereed scholarly journal, and was co-editor of a book of international case studies published by the Institute for Public Relations. She has consulted and lectured on public relations and journalism/mass communications in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Newly Independent States, the Baltics, the Middle East and Asia. See less