Students?gain invaluable real-world advice & make career-building contacts when some of the region?s leading communication professionals visit classes during Communication Career Week. ?Our students also get the opportunity to shadow members of the International Association of Business Communicators for a day of education in the real world of public relations?and?business communication. Those who make the cut can hone their argumentation skills competing on a debate team that has won multiple state?and?national championships in recent years.?

If expert guidance is what you want, Henderson State is the place for you. ?You will find our communication faculty to have an engaging classroom manner that seeks to stimulate independent thought and effective communication skills among students. Outside of class, they are extremely accessible, devoting many hours to mentoring and advising.?

Henderson Communication professors have international reputations within their specialties, as evidenced by invitations to deliver the keynote addresses at a number of academic conferences?and?being quoted in national and international newspaper articles. They have published articles, books [one?recently co-authored a university textbook for comic art studies]?and?served on the Editorial Boards of academic journals. They have recently been recognized for their research with the Popular Culture Association?s Inge Award for Scholarship?and?one was even a co-founder of the Comic Arts Conference.?