Which PR Professor are you?

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Quiz Questions

1.
If you had to describe yourself in TWO of the following ways, what would it be?
- A.
  Passionate
- B.
  Music Junky
- C.
  Troublemaker
- D.
  Outgoing
- E.
  Comical
- F.
  Realistic
- G.
  Driven
- H.
  Whole hearted
- I.
  Friendly
2.
What's your favorite part of Kent? (select up to 3)
- A.
  May 4th Visitors Center
- B.
  All the people and ideas
- C.
  Ray's Place
- D.
  All the student groups and activities
- E.
  Flash Communications
- F.
  All the places around campus (allows smoking)
- G.
  That I feel happy and accepted here
- H.
  The size of the campus
3.
Which of the following classes seem most interesting to you?
- A.
  Public Affairs
- B.
  PR Publications
- C.
  Online graduate courses
- D.
  PR Case Studies
- E.
  Law & Ethics
- F.
  PR Campaigns
- G.
  Digital PR / Analytics
- H.
  Media Relations
- I.
  Research in AD and PR
4.
Which quote best describes you?
- A.
  "My voice is my greatest gift. I have used my voice in the battle against injustice. It has brought me in touch with my own purpose and with people from every kind of background. I have used my voice for exonerated prisoners who have spent years in solitary confinement, I have stood with exhausted refugees and immigrants, the excluded and the bullied...those how now live in the shadows of rejection. Now, there is much work to be done. I am ready. I hope you are, too. I want my granddaughter to know I fought against an evil tide and had the masses by my side."
- B.
  "Luck is positioning yourself for an opportunity!"
- C.
  "What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say"
- D.
  "Anything is possible if no one cares who gets the credit"
- E.
  "Remember to always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman."
- F.
  "When you lay down with dogs, you get fleas"
- G.
  "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- H.
  "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- I.
  "With great power comes great responsibility."
5.
What's your secret talent?
- A.
  Getting someone to eat pop-tarts without them knowing...
- B.
  The art of coffee
- C.
  Whitewater canoeist
- D.
  Card tricks
- E.
  Playing instruments
- F.
  Cooking
- G.
  DIY furniture guru
- H.
  Singing
- I.
  Writing poetry
6.
What do you want to do in public relations?
- A.
  Crisis Management
- B.
  Entertainment
- C.
  Ethics / Social responsibility
- D.
  Media Relations
- E.
  Digital work (Social media, website management)
- F.
  Internal Communications
- G.
  Healthcare Communications
- H.
  Community Relations
- I.
  Anything in Corporate PR

Quiz Outcomes

1.
You are:Luke Armour!
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Luke Armour is an associate professor in JMC and the Flash Communications Coordinator Courses: PR Tactics, PR Case Studies, Digital PR Luke serves as the coordinator of Flash Communications, University Communications and Marketing's student-PR agency and internship experience. At Flash Communications, Luke manages students who work side-by-side with professionals to craft stories for internal and external clients and publications, staff university events and manage branding for Flash Comm. Prior to joining Kent State, Armour worked in the digital practice group at FleishmanHillard, managing social media, mobile, podcasting and Web strategy and execution for a variety of clients across numerous industries. Armour has served as a PR coordinator for BlogTalkRadio, an online citizen-broadcasting network, and a PR account executive at Innis Maggiore, in Canton, Ohio. Armour holds a master's degree in communications from the University of Akron and a bachelor's degree in speech communications from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
2.
You are: Michele Ewing!
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Michele Ewing is an associate professor and PR sequence coordinator in JMC Courses: Principles of Public Relations, PR Tactics, PR Campaigns Michele Ewing, APR, has more than 25 years of experience in agency and corporate public relations and public relations education. Before joining the Kent State faculty, Michele was a vice president at Marcus Thomas LLC, an integrated marketing communications agency in Cleveland. During her 12-year tenure at Marcus Thomas, Michele played an active role in the growth of the public relations division with emphasis on the healthcare, internal and marketing public relations communications practices. Prior to Marcus Thomas, Michele worked for two Ohio hospitals. She also advises the Kent State Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. Under her direction, PRSSA Kent has won six national PRSSA Teahan awards including 2014 Outstanding Chapter in the nation. PRSSA Kent also has earned numerous Kent State Student Involvement honors. Michele advised a student team in the Do It Now College Challenge, which was sponsored by Donate Life Ohio and Second Chance Trust Fund, to increase the number of organ and tissue donors in the Ohio Organ Donor Registry. The Kent State campaign won first place in the statewide competition among 13 colleges and universities and won a PRSA East Central District Diamond Award. She was named a Moulton Teaching Scholar at Kent State. Michele was honored with the Greater Cleveland PRSA Chapter’s 2014 Davis Young Award for achievement in mentoring. In October 2014, Michele was inducted into the PRSA College of Fellows, which recognizes senior practitioners and educators for their contributions to the public relations profession. Her research interests include PR education, leadership development, social media, internal communications, and career preparation and other professional practice topics.
3.
You are: Tim Roberts!
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Tim Roberts is an assiociate lecturer and undergraduate studies coordinator in JMC Courses: Law, Ethics, Case Studies, Bateman, PR Campaigns Roberts serves as the advisor for PRSSA’s Bateman Case Study Competition. Roberts created and teaches Ethical Issues in Integrated Communications in the undergraduate program and created and taught the Investor Relations course in JMC's online master's degree with a public relations concentration program. Before coming to KSU, Roberts was public affairs manager at WCI Steel, Inc. from 1994 to 2008. Prior to joining WCI, he was a reporter for The Vindicator in Youngstown from 1983 to 1994 and for The (Warren) Tribune-Chronicle from 1981 to 1983. He earned a bachelor's degree in news-editorial journalism and a master's degree in media management, both at KSU. He graduated from Canton Central Catholic High School in 1977. Roberts was administrator of the Ohio Steel Council and chairman of the council's communications committee. He was vice chairman of the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce's Government Affairs Council and the chamber's political action committee. He was a 1998 graduate of Leadership Mahoning Valley and formally served as a board member of the Trumbull County chapter of the American Red Cross.
4.
You are: Dr. Cheryl Ann Lambert!
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Dr. Cheryl Ann Lambert is an assistant professor in JMC Courses: PR Case studies, Strategic writing in PR, Research in Advertising and PR, Theory of Mass communication, PR Tactics Dr. Lambert is a constructivist qualitative scholar whose research is informed by seven years in corporate public relations (Sears, Roebuck, and Co.) and five years in trade publishing (Chilton Publishing). Her research focus is media representations of public relations in contemporary and historical contexts. She has analyzed public relations in the news media, popular culture, and war-time propaganda. Dr. Lambert also studies public relations-related health discourse. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Media Ethics, Public Relations Inquiry, and Health Marketing Quarterly.
5.
You are: Stephanie Smith!
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Stephanie Smith is a assistant professor in JMC Courses: Principles of PR, Public Affairs, PR Case Studies, Communications in a Global Society, Transnational Trend Analysis and Communication and Terrisom Smith retired in 2011 from the United State Federal Government, after 27 years of service, 25 of them with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She also had significant executive experience in defense (U.S. Navy) and public diplomacy (Department of State). As a Senior Intelligence Service executive in the CIA, Smith led thousands of employees; designed and managed programs worth several billion dollars; interacted regularly with Congress; and traveled extensively, including throughout two war zones (Afghanistan and Iraq). She was selected as a member of CIA's Senior Intelligence Service in 2000 and achieved its highest rank. Smith led the largest of CIA's four directorates, the Directorate of Support, and reported directly to the Director of CIA for hiring, security, global logistics, facility support, finance, acquisitions and medical services worldwide. In this role, Smith was also accountable to Congress, the media, and the American public. In 2008, Smith became the first civilian and first CIA senior executive selected to serve as Deputy Director of the United States Navy's Shore Readiness Division, where she represented the Navy's $9 billion shore investment portfolio. Prior to her assignment with the U.S. Navy, Smith was selected as the first CIA Senior Advisor to Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the State Department, where she co-founded the Department's Counterterrorism Communications Center to strengthen and integrate all United States Government counter-terrorism messaging. Smith's work has been recognized with several awards, honors, and distinctions. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, which is awarded exclusively for performance of outstanding services which constitute a major contribution to the mission of the Central Intelligence Agency. During her career in intelligence, she was also awarded the CIA’s Director's Award, the CIA Certificate of Distinction, 20 CIA Exceptional Performance Awards. She is also the recipient of a U.S. Navy Special Act Award.
6.
You are: Stefanie Moore!
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Stefanie More is an associate professor in JMC Courses: Online PR Tactics, Digital Analytics in Ad & PR and Social Media Strategies. She previously served as coordinator of Flash Communications, the student PR agency housed in University Communications and Marketing, where she directed eight to 10 students on marketing and PR initiatives.Prior to her role on the faculty, she was a member of the university’s Web team where she managed the university’s search engine optimization project and other Web-related initiatives.Before coming to Kent State, Moore worked in Naperville, Ill., for Laidlaw Education Services, the leading supplier of student transportation. There she was responsible for the employee newsletter, community relations initiatives and maintaining the company intranet.Moore earned a bachelor's in public relations in 1997 and a master's in information architecture and knowledge management in 2007, both from Kent State.
7.
You are: Evan Bailey!
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Evan Bailey is an associate professor in JMC Courses: PR publications Evan Bailey has over a decade of advertising agency and production management experience, including six years in the Office of Student Media at Kent State, where he oversaw production of the Daily Kent Stater and five student-run magazines. Bailey has also acted as operations manager for IdeaBase, a College of Communication and Information collaborative project focused on creating an experiential learning experience mirroring a real-life agency setting and structure. At IdeaBase, Bailey oversaw student employment and training, agency traffic, creative coaching, and outbound agency marketing efforts.Bailey holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising and master’s degree in media management from Kent State and teaches as an assistant professor in the Public Relations and Advertising sequences. Bailey's research interests include graphic design, audience analysis, new media technology, and live entertainment marketing.In his spare time, Bailey works with some of the world's leading live entertainment producers to develop marketing strategies for concerts in over 100 markets in the US, Canada, Mexico and Latin America.
8.
You are: Bill Sledzik!
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Bill Sledzik is an associate professor in JMC Courses: Online PR masters program Bill joined the faculty in 1992 after a 15-year career in public relations counseling. That career included five years as head of his own firm, Sledzik & Associates, in Buffalo, N.Y., and service to such clients as General Motors, Stroh’s Beer, Uniroyal Tires, Century 21 and Waste Management. After 20 years of teaching in the undergraduate program, a hearing disability prompted Bill to shift his focus exclusively to Kent State’s Online PR Master’s program, where he is both an instructor and a course designer. Bill holds degrees from Ohio University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. His areas of interest include social media, public relations history and applied ethics. On the personal side, Bill lists his priorities as husband, father, grandfather, outdoorsman, blogger and consummate troublemaker. Bill blogs intermittently at ToughSledding and tweets @billsledzik.
9.
You are: Eric Mansfield!
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Eric Mansfield is the Executive Director of University Media Relations. Courses: Media Relations Prior to joining Kent State University, Eric Mansfield was an Emmy award-winning journalist with WKYC-TV (NBC-Cleveland) for 18 years, most recently as 6/11 weekend news anchor. He is also known for his two years as a reporter-anchor with WAKC-TV (ABC Akron). Mansfield's broadcast awards include recognition from the Ohio Associated Press, Cleveland Press Club and Ohio Broadcaster's Hall of Fame. Since 2007, he has been the host of the weekly reporters' roundtable, "NewsNite," on Western Reserve Public Media. Mansfield is also a retired Major with the Ohio Army National Guard with deployments to Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, Central America and others during a 20-year military career. Later this year, Mansfield will complete his masters degree in public relations from Kent State University. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Dayton, where he was named the Omar Williams Award winner as the university's top broadcasting graduate.

Which PR Professor are you?

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