Associate Provost, Dean of Academic Services
Dr. Kathy Brittain McKee
Berry College
Academic Services
P.O. Box 495029
Mount Berry, GA 30149-5029
706-236-2229
706-290-2179 FAX
kmckee@berry.edu
EXPERIENCE
1986-present: Berry College, a comprehensive liberal-arts institution of approximately
1,900 undergraduates and 200 graduate students located near Rome, Georgia, that offers
the bachelor of arts, science and music degrees and the master’s and specialist’s degree in education and the master of business administration degrees.
Associate Provost and Dean of Academic Services;
Director of Institutional Research; Professor of Communication
Currently responsible for Academic Advising and Institutional Research and Assessment
and oversight of Academic Support Center, Admissions, Faculty Research and Sponsored Programs, First-Year Experience Office, Media Center, Memorial Library, and Registrar
1995-1997 Coordinator, Department of Communication
Fall 1994 Acting Dean, School of Humanities , Arts and Social Sciences
1993-1994 Coordinator, Department of Communication Arts
1991-1992 Coordinator, Department of Communication Arts
1986 - 1988 Instructor in Journalism, Advisor to Student Publications
1983 - 1986 Oklahoma Baptist University
Chair, Department of Journalism, Advisor to Student Publications
1981 - 1983 University of Georgia
Graduate teaching assistant.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mass Communication, The University of Georgia . 1992.
M.A., Journalism, The University of Georgia . 1983.
B.A., Communication and Religion/Philosophy, Shorter College. 1979.
Summa cum laude 1999 Distinguished Alumna Award
TEACHING
Continue to teach courses in public relations, media law and ethics, and communication theory in the communication program at Berry; recipient of the three major college teaching, scholarship and service awards and the 2002 Martindale Award of Distinction from Berry College and the teaching award for an untenured faculty member from Oklahoma Baptist University.
RESEARCH
Co-author of two books, Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning and Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Relations ; author or co-author of four book chapters, 14 research articles in journals and proceedings, and numerous refereed and invited conference presentations; and serve on editorial board for Mass Communication & Society journal.
SERVICE
Chair , Planning Council; Institutional Research Advisory Committee; Task Force on General Education; First-Year Advisory Committee; serve on 13 other college councils and committees
Just completed term as Chair, Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Dr. Kathy Brittain McKee
Associate Provost and Dean of Academic Services
Telephone: (706) 236-2229
E-mail: kmckee@berry.edu