Communications Professionals

Deans, directors, and chairs work closely with communications professionals to maximize visibility and contribute to their academic unit's reputation. Together, you collaborate on strategic communications, crisis management, and telling the institution's story through print and digital platforms. To augment a dean’s International Council for Arts Deans membership, a Communications Professionals thought community has been formed. The affinity group is designed to create a network for communications professionals working in the visual and performing arts, design, and creative industries in higher education. The Communications Professionals network engages throughout the year to share challenges and successes, best practices, strategies, research, communication models, and trends that support communications efforts in the creative, higher education space. 

Benefits of membership in ICfAD’s Communications Professionals thought community include, but are not limited to: 
  • a network of colleagues who specifically work in the arts, design, and creative industries in higher education communications for professional development, information sharing, peer review, exchange and mentorship – Communications Professionals Helping Communications Professionals 
  • online conversations and programs for sharing information and best practices
  • on-going communication through a listserv information exchange
  • opportunities for surveying colleagues related to communications programs, addressing issues, and best practices
  • opportunities to advertise communications searches in ICfAD's Career Center

Online discussions and programs are the third Thursdays of January, February, March and April at 1:00 Eastern / 12:00 Central / 11:00 Mountain / 10:00 Pacific. Invitations for each meeting will be sent. Registration is free for members of each affinity group or $80 per session for non-members.

Join this affinity group now. The ‘bundled’ annual membership of an arts academic unit may include a communications professional’s membership. To join or renew this thought community via a ‘bundled’ membership structure, please see the form on this webpage Or, Click here to add your Communications Professional(s) if your academic unit chooses to use ICFAD’s ‘a la carte’ membership structure. Either way, your institution's communications staff are invited to participate in this thought community designed to support them. If you prefer to share your p-card information by phone for either, please call (561) 514-0810 or e-mail [email protected] for additional information.

Group Leadership: Marina Gomberg, Director of Communications + Marketing, College of Fine Arts, The University of Utah [email protected] and Jamie Clift Rager, Communications Manager, FSU College of Fine Arts, [email protected]

Members are invited to Login here, to review recordings of previous programs.