{"title":"Residing in the Periphery while Teaching in the Center of Nonprofit Management Education: Perspectives from a Strategic Communication Professor","authors":"Richard D. Waters","doi":"10.18666/jnel-11723","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay describes my experiences as a nonprofit management education professor whose academic and professional backgrounds come from strategic communication. I highlight the teaching, service, and research stresses that I’ve experienced as a professor who doesn’t share the same theoretical perspectives as program directors and department chairs who come from public administration, business, and social work backgrounds. I write about these tensions not to vent or air dirty laundry but to encourage nonprofit management education programs to recruit tenured, tenure-track, and adjunct professors who have different backgrounds and actively bring them into key roles within the program in regards to strategic planning, evaluation, and administration.","PeriodicalId":43170,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18666/jnel-11723","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay describes my experiences as a nonprofit management education professor whose academic and professional backgrounds come from strategic communication. I highlight the teaching, service, and research stresses that I’ve experienced as a professor who doesn’t share the same theoretical perspectives as program directors and department chairs who come from public administration, business, and social work backgrounds. I write about these tensions not to vent or air dirty laundry but to encourage nonprofit management education programs to recruit tenured, tenure-track, and adjunct professors who have different backgrounds and actively bring them into key roles within the program in regards to strategic planning, evaluation, and administration.