Graduate Fellowships are available for the program in Corporate and Professional Communication. Because the degree focuses on the education and training of communication professionals and because those communication professionals may well be called upon to educate and train others in the workplace or the classroom, the primary duties of most graduate fellows involve teaching. 

Fall 2003 first-year Graduate Teaching  Fellows work with their
 mentor,  Dr. George Grice, to  prepare for teaching assignments

The Corporate and Professional Communication faculty believe that all graduate teaching fellows should be provided with the best preparation possible for educating others. Thus, all teaching fellows are provided with a year of training and practice under a designated mentor before they are assigned teaching responsibilities. 

 
Second-year graduate teaching fellow, Dante Morelli,  in
his Public Speaking class


Second-year graduate teaching fellow, Daniel Mansson,
in his Public Speaking class

Graduate students who receive a teaching fellowship commit to a two-year program of study.  During the first year, students are assigned a teaching mentor and work with that mentor in designated COMM 114, Public Speaking, sections.   During the second year, students are generally assigned to teach two individual sections of COMM 114, Public Speaking, as the official “instructor of record” of the course.  A mentor is assigned to all second-year teaching fellows.  The mentor’s primary duties are to approve course syllabi, be available throughout the semester to provide guidance, give advice, and answer questions from teaching fellows, and to evaluate teaching fellows. Before assuming any teaching duties, however, students must be approved for teaching assignments by the graduate faculty and the teaching mentor.

Second-year graduate teaching fellow, Thad Herron, in
his Public Speaking class

Applicants for admission who also wish to be considered for a Graduate Teaching  Fellowship should write a letter to that effect addressed to:

Graduate Program Coordinator
Corporate and Professional Communication
Radford University
Box 6932
Radford, VA 24142

Letters requesting consideration for a Graduate Teaching Fellowship for the fall semester must be received by February 1. Letters requesting consideration for a Graduate Teaching Fellowship for the spring semester must be received by September 15. All Graduate Teaching Fellowships are competitive.

Other graduate assistantships are available through the College of Graduate and Extended Education.  Inquiries regarding those assistantships should be directed to the College.