Background
Ruben, Brent David was born on October 17, 1944 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.
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Quality in Higher Education
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The concept of quality in higher education is by no means a new one. By one set of definitions or another, colleges and universities throughout the world have always held the pursuit of excellence as their primary goal. Why then has the quality approach, developed and popularized in industry, and how increasingly applied in health care and government, receiving so much attention in higher education at this moment? What does this perspective add to the approaches to excellence with which they have long embraced? These are the two primary questions that this book seeks to address. Chapters and contributors include: "The New Productivity" by Peter F. Drucker; "World War n and the Quality Movement" by J. M. Juran; "The Quality Approach to Higher Education: Context of Concepts for Change" by Brent Ruben; "The Big Questions in Higher Education Today" by L. Edwin Coate; "An American Approach to Quality" by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala; "Quality hi Higher Education: Critical Issues in Definition and Assessment" by Brent Ruben; and "Ten Areas for Future Research in Total Quality Management" by A. Blanton Godfrey. The volume is graced with an opening essay by Francis L. Lawrence, president of Rutgers University. Higher education is in the public spotlight today due to the many challenges it now faces: rising tuition costs; frustration about a tight job market for graduates; calls for increased faculty productivity; concerns about political correctness; and criticisms regarding the use of grant and research funds, among others. Quality in Higher Education is a particularly timely book that will greatly benefit educators, university administrators, students, and sociologists, and all those who are interested in higher education today.
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Mass Communication: Producers and Consumers
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Communication and Human Behavior (5th Edition)
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Communication and Human Behavior offers students a broad introduction to the study of communication which is expansive yet integrated, that links theory to practice, and that is rigorous yet readable. Neither a watered-down treatment of the subject nor a how-to text, this new edition presumes that the study of communication in human affairs is a complex phenomenon with important and far-reaching effects. Employing a thorough description of a variety of approaches and using the cohering insights of systems theory, Communication and Human Behavior presents to students the broad and colorful landscape of the field, outlines the history of communication study, and focuses on communication as a basic life process.
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Communication and Human Behavior by Brent D. Ruben (1984-05-01)
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Brent David Ruben
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Bachelor in Psychology and Advertising, U. Iowa, 1966; Master of Arts in Mass Communication Research, U. Iowa, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Communication, U. Iowa, 1970.
Career
Instructor to assistant professor mass communication, U. Iowa, 1969-1971;
assistant to associate professor communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1971-1980;
department chairman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1980-1984;
professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1980-1987;
member Executive Committee faculty professional studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1981-1982;
member Executive Committee Doctor of Philosophy program in information and library studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1981-1983;
fellow, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1982;
director Doctor of Philosophy program School Communication, Infantry and Library. Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1984-1993;
executive director university program for organizational quality and committee improvement, since 1993;
member Institute for Health, Health Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1986;
Distinguished professor communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1987;
Distinguished professor organizational psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1997. Co-project director advisory board National Survey Public Perceptions of Digestive Health and Disease and Louis Harris & Associations, 1982-1984.
Chairman steering committee national digestive disease education program, National Institutes of Health, 1983-1984. Senior consultant grants Fund for Improvement Post-Secondary Education, 1984-1986. Member of national digestive diseases advisory board Department of Health and Human Services, 1982-1984.
Special consultant Canada Royal Commission onConditions Foreign Svc., 1980-1981. Member Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards Examination Committee, since 1994. Judge Quality New Jersey Awards, since 1996.
Chairman.conf. board Higher Education National Quality Council, 1995-1996. Invited lecturer Yale University, West Virginia University Medical School, Wayne State University, Texas, Pittsburgh U., Duquesne U., Drake U., James Madison U., Columbia-Free State Health System, National Institutes of Health, others. Consultant Johnson & Johnson, Ford, Humana Hospital-Sunrise, New Jersey Bell, Bell Canada, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Canada Agency International Development, United States Agency for International Development, Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Morristown Memorial Hospital, Cathedral Health Care Systems, York Rehabilitation Hospital Chilton Memorial Hospital.
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Communication and Human Behavior (5th Edition)
( Communication and Human Behavior offers students a bro...)
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Quality in Higher Education
( The concept of quality in higher education is by no me...)
- Mass Communication: Producers and Consumers
- Communication and Human Behavior by Brent D. Ruben (1984-05-01)
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Communication and Human Behavior (5th Edition)
Membership
Member Franklin County, (New Jersey) Township Human Rels. Commission, 1973-1975. Special consultant Center for Disease Control, New Jersey Collegiate Consortium for Health in Education, 1981-1982, chair University Community Affairs and Outreach Committee, 1992-1993, University Sen.
Committee Rutgers and the Public, 1992-1993. Member International Communication Association (chair publications committee, conference site selection committee), Eastern Communication Association (publications committee, advisory board), Speech Communication Association, American Society Information Science, American Hospital Association, American Society Patient Representation and Consumer Affairs, American Society Health Edition and Training, Association Library. and Information Science Educators (research committee 1988-1989), KappaTau Alpha, Alpha Kappa Psi.
Connections
Son of Nate and Ruth (Subotnik) R. m. Jann M., October 3, 1967. Children, Robbi Lynn, Marc David.
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American
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Recipient Distinguished Svc. award Coalition Digestive Disease Orgns., 1984. Grantee, project co-director National Association Broadcasters, 1970, United States Office Education, 1970, Rutgers University, 1973-1974, 74-75.Recipient Distinguished Svc. award Coalition Digestive Disease Orgns., 1984. Grantee, project co-director National Association Broadcasters, 1970, United States Office Education, 1970, Rutgers University, 1973-1974, 74-75.