James E. Reppert, associate professor of mass communication at Southern Arkansas University, has been selected for participation in a McGraw-Hill Higher Education Public Speaking Seminar, to be held March 5-6 in San Francisco, California.
Reppert was one of 12 communication educators chosen to participate and serve as group leaders in a series of discussion assignments focusing on public speaking. Educators will also provide McGraw-Hill publishers input on producing more effective instructional materials for college speech courses.
He has served as a manuscript reviewer for more than a 12 college textbooks in broadcast journalism (writing and production), mass communication, and speech. Reppert teaches Introduction to Public Speaking, Advanced Public Speaking, Argumentation and Debate, and Introduction to Mass Communication.
He has been named Scholar of the Year (1997-98), Teacher of the Year (2000-01 and 2006-07) and Undergraduate Mentor of the Year (2007-2008) by the Kentucky Communication Association, the first out-of-state educator to receive each award.
Reppert has made more than 100 presentations at regional and national conventions of professional associations and been selected for 17 faculty seminars in media and communication.
A member of the SAU faculty since 1987, Reppert holds a bachelor’s degree in university studies from North Dakota State University and a master’s degree in communication studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
