I post the course syllabi here for EDRD 3050 (Agricultural Communications I) and EDRD 4060 (Agricultural Communications II) for easy access for students. I've taken them down for the summer to update them. Students, please...
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Read MoreFormer TV news reporter Prof. Ricky Telg, an agricultural communications and education professor from the University of Florida, co-teaches agricultural communications theory in our online diploma in agricultural communications....
Read MoreAlmost everyone (including me, and CKCO) who wrote or broadcast about the new zoonoses and public health centre that opened yesterday at the University of Guelph led their story or column with "what timing" or...
Read MoreI'm pleased be to a member of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council communications advisory committee. We spend our time trying to help develop communications strategies that will address human resource...
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.