Education
After working for the Associated Press and the Raleigh Times, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University with a dissertation on eye contact as a communication channel.
scholars author of The Statistical Pioneers
After working for the Associated Press and the Raleigh Times, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University with a dissertation on eye contact as a communication channel.
At the time of his death, Tankard was Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served on the faculty for 32 years and held the Jesse H. Jones Professorship in Journalism. Prior to joining the Texas faculty in 1972, he served on the journalism faculties of Temple University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Tankard earned a general science Bachelor of Surgery from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and an Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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