Jacqueline Taylor
Dean, College of Communication
In her two years as dean of the College of Communication, Jacqueline Taylor has helped grow the college to an enrollment of just over 1,400 students and more than 40 faculty members. The college is the fourth-largest provider of bachelor's degrees in communication in Illinois and second in the Chicago area. It is the second-largest provider of master's degrees in communication in the state. The college offers five undergraduate majors and four master's programs.
This past year, Taylor oversaw the college's move from the Lincoln Park Campus to 14 E. Jackson Blvd. in Chicago's Loop in summer 2009 to better accommodate the college's rapid growth. The new location significantly enhances teaching space and provides a much more impressive front door to the college. The new space includes a classroom designed as a converged newsroom with 25 Mac computers, a small news set with camera and anchor desk, a 100-seat film screening room and a classroom with two soundproof studios for audio documentary and radio classes.
A faculty member in the former Department of Communication since 1980, Taylor was appointed dean of the College of Communication in March 2007. She has held numerous administrative positions in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the university. Previously, she was associate vice president for Academic Affairs, where both the Office of Continuing and Professional Education and the university's suburban campuses reported to her.
She served as founding director of the DePaul Humanities Center for seven years, and prior to that she was associate dean of graduate studies in LA&S. She chaired the Department of Communication from 1990 to 1995, and before that she served as director of the women's studies program.
A performance studies scholar, Taylor was awarded the National Communication Association Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation/Performance Studies in 2007. Her memoir, "Waiting for the Call," was a 2008 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Other works include her monograph, "Grace Paley: Illuminating the Dark Lives," and the co-edited volume, "Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women's Autobiography." She has performed autobiographical pieces at Sushi Gallery in San Diego, Las Manos Gallery in Chicago and at numerous universities and national conferences. Her scholarly articles and essays in the area of performance studies have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Southern Speech Communication Journal and Women's Studies in Communication. She is on the editorial board of Text and Performance Quarterly and is a past chairperson of the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association (NCA). Currently, she is the director of the Finance Board for NCA and a member of the Executive Committee.
Taylor received a bachelor's degree in English and communication arts from Georgetown College in Kentucky. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin before joining the faculty of DePaul. She completed the Management Development Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Education in 1996. In 2005-06, Taylor was an American Council on Education Fellow at Kent State University, where she worked closely with the president and provost.
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