JUCA 2015 Business Meeting Minutes:
Thirteenth Annual Business Meeting of Japan-U.S. Communication Association
Date & Time: 5:00: p.m. – 5:37 p.m., Saturday, November 21st, 2015
Place: Rio All- Suite Hotel & Casino
Chair: Dr. Akira Miyahara, JUCA President, Seinan Gakuin University
Attendance: 22 Members in attendance
I. President Miyahara called the meeting to order at 5:10 p.m.
1. President Miyahara introduced the agenda for the meeting.
II. Old Business
1. Vice President, Rick Kenney read the Minutes of the 2014 Chicago business meeting which was prepared by Max Saito
2. The Minutes of the 2014 was approved during the business meeting.
III. New Business
1. Top Paper Awards 2014
- Top Student Paper:
Albert Rintrona, University of Iowa
The Possibilities of Human Rights Photography: Absence and Opportunity in the Japanese American Internment Archive
- Top Paper:
Noriaki Tajima, Kanda University of International Studies
Embracing the U.S. Democracy: Rhetoric to Raise Demos after Honjo Case, 1948
- Top Paper:
Kikuko Omori, St. Cloud State University
Partying and Drunk Picture Posting Practice on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and Personality: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Japanese and American College Students
2. Continuation and Replacement of Executive Committee
- The New Executive Committee Members
President: Akira Miyahara, Seinan Gakuin University
Vice President: Rick Kenney, Georgia Regents University
Treasurer: Kikuko Omori, St. Cloud State University
Secretary: Emi Kanemoto, Bowling Green State University
Web Page Director: Tatsuya Imai, University of Texas at Austin
Members-at-Large: Edwin R. McDaniel, California State University, San Marcos
Donald J. Jung, Southeast Missouri State University
Rose Campbell, Butler University
Student Representative: Josh Nelson, Michigan State University
Conference Co-Planner: Koji Fuse, University of North Texas
- Secretary, Max Saito stepped down as previously announced on June 1st 2015, and Emi Kanemoto took over the secretary position as of June 1st 2015.
- Co-Planner, Fuse moved to have Shoko Hayashi Barnes step down from the Member-at-Large position because of her personal reasons. The motion was seconded by Vice President, Rick Kenney. Vote was taken and the motion passed by voice vote.
- Co-Planner, Fuse nominated Rose Campbell as a new Member-at-Large. Fuse explained that the main duty of a member-at-large is to review six papers for JUCA, along with some help with conference planning. The motion was seconded by Vice President, Rick Kenney. Vote was taken and the motion passed by voice vote.
3. Report from 2015 Conference
- Number of submissions : 14(12)*papers & 2(1)panel
- Accepted: 12(12) papers & 0(0) panel
- Rejected: 2(1) papers & 2(1) panels
- Number of sessions: 3(4) JUCA sessions (3 paper sessions & 0 Business Meeting)
*(#) indicate the 2014 records
- Reviewers for 2015 conference:
Kimiko Akita / Rose Campbell / Michael Hazen / Donald Jung / Rick Kenney / Edwin McDaniel / Robert Mejia / Akira Miyahara / Lucy Miller / Joshua Nelson / Hiroko Okuda / Nathaniel Simmons
4. Budget Report
- Treasurer, Kikuko Omori, reported on the JUCA treasury, and the report was approved unanimously.
5. Plan for 2016 (Philadelphia, 11/10-13)
- Conference Theme: Communication Civic Callings
(a) We were encouraged to invite communication activists (Social Justice Activists) to NCA.
(b) JUCA can potentially propose to have activists so that JUCA could have additional sessions.
- Number of sessions: 3
(a) Business meeting will be held outside of these sessions.
(b) By holding the business meeting during the JUCA Social, JUCA will be able to secure three sessions for the paper/panel sessions.
(c) A lot more full-paper/extended-abstract submissions are needed. If we have more submissions, President Miyahara and Co-Planner Fuse will be able to start negotiating with the NCA second vice president to get one permanent slot back.
- Call for papers: January through March
6. Reviewers for 2016 National Communication Association
- Kimiko Akita
- Rose Campbell (member-at-large)
- Koji Fuse
- Michael Hazen
- Donald Jung (member-at-large)
- Rick Kenney
- Edwin McDaniel (member-at-large)
- Robert Mejia
- Akira Miyahara
- Lucy Miller
- James Mueller
- Joshua Nelson
- Hiroko Okuda
- Albert Rintrona
- Nathaniel Simmons
7. Plan for membership promotion
- Individual memberships – free
- Institutional memberships – not possible for now
- Affiliation with NCA