Jerry Crawford II

Academic Degrees

• B.S., Mass Communications, Virginia Commonwealth University
• M.S. Special Education Technology, Virginia State University
• Ph.D., Mass Communications Media Studies, Howard University

Honors

• Gretchen and Gene Budig Teaching Professorship, University of Kansas, 2020
• New Faculty Facilitator Award, 2008 - KU Learning Communities
• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010 - Center for Teaching Excellence
• John Katich Award for Creativity, 2014 - School of Journalism
• Mortar Board Award, 2018 - University of Kansas Torch Chapter

Research

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Accreditation of Journalism Schools

Publications

• Crawford, J., Boyles, J., Hernandez, T., Chen, L., Cheng, H., & Perlmutter, D. (2020). “Opportunities and Challenges: Professional development programming in media & communication education”. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.​ (Winter Special Issue).
• Crawford, J. (2020). “High School Journalism Advisers and Diversified Newsrooms”. Broadcast Education Association’s Journal of Media Education (JoME). (Vol. 11 – Number 2, pp. 31-38). https://en.calameo.com/read/0000917898a07ac2096e4
• Crawford, J. (2017). “HBCUs: Accreditation, governance and survival challenges in an ever-increasing competition for funding and students”. Journal of Research Initiatives. February, 2017.​​
• Crawford, J. (2014). “Leaders in journalism education: Administrators at ACEJMC Accredited programs and non-accredited HBCU programs critique the standards”. Journal of Research Initiatives, (Vol. 1, Number 2). http://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/jri/vol1/iss2/10/or http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16203
• Crawford, J. (2014). "Marlen Livezey: Challenges and successes of establishing a journalism department at the nation's first HBCU". Journal of Media Education, BEA (Volume 5, Number 1)
• Reinardy, S. and Crawford, J. (2013). "Assessing the Assessors: JMC Administrators Critique the Nine ACEJMC Standards". Journalism & Mass Communication Educator (Volume 68, Number 4)
• Crawford, J. (2012). “A link to the future: A pilot study look at how Historically Black Colleges and Universities with journalism and mass communications units use the Internet in recruiting”. Contemporary Issues in Education Research (Volume 5, Number 2)
• Crawford, J. (2012). “The challenges and successes of department governance: A look at HBCU journalism and mass communications unit administrators”. Contemporary Issues in Education Research (Volume 5, Number 3)
• Crawford, Jerry and Barbara Hines. (2010). “Earning Accreditation and Preparing Students for Future Challenges: Journalism Education atHistorically Black Colleges.” Journalism Education, Training and Employment, chapter 3, Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
• Crawford, J. (2012). “Choosing higher education: How freshmen and first-year journalism and mass communication students used the Internet in their decision”.

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