I am currently in Detroit, Michigan for the Wayne State University Summer Doctoral Seminar on Crisis and Risk Communications. This is the fifth seminar that they have brought in some of the brighest and up-and-coming doctoral students in the field. I am very honored to have been selected to be in this group of doctoral students. The themes of the seminar have changed, but this year it is focused on crisis communications.
What is exciting is the fact that everyone is not only from across the nation – but from different departments as well. I am the only doctoral student that is studying public relations, while others are in either communications departments, or in rhetoric or health communications. We all are at different stages in our program – some just finished comp exams, others are preparing for them, and there are those of us that have to write that little paper. 🙂
I arrived in Detroit and the last time I was in Michigan was back in 2000, where I was heading to a high school recruiting trip to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. We were picked up at the airport and headed to Wayne State University, where we were going to be for our seminar and stay in the dorms. It is a very pretty campus – and I was told by Laura (one of the WSU doctoral students) that there are about 33,000 students that attend the university. Wow! That is very cool!. 🙂
We had a welcome reception with the WSU organizers of the event and met our keynote scholar for the seminar, Dr. Lee Wilkins. Dr. Matthew Seeger welcomed us to the seminar and Dr. Fred Vultee did an excellent job in making us feel welcome and part of the Wayne State University academic community. The next couple of days will be focused on discussion, research questions, and talking about issues that are facing the crisis and risk profession. If you would like to see in real time what we are talking about, we do have an assigned hashtag on Twitter for the seminar – it is going to be listed under as #crisisprep. One of the other doctoral students, Stephanie Kent, and I had a Twitter discussion and came up with this – thanks Stephanie!
Hope you all are having a wonderful day.
Best Wishes,
Karen
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