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- Professor Gladys McKie, Northeastern University's only public relations instructor, and Professor Lincoln McKie, a gifted professor of journalism with a distinguished media career, were informed last week that their contracts would not be renewed after December because they don't currently have master's degrees.
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- Professor Nick Daniloff:
"This is unbelievably bad administrative management," Daniloff said. "I have to ask myself, 'Do I want to work for such heartless and inept university management?' To see this happen makes me furious."
Arts and Sciences Academic Adviser, Kate Flanagan:
My first ever facebook post... This upsets me tremendously. Gladys is one of the few instructors who takes the time to contact me each semester to let me know which students are struggling so I can reach out to them to offer my help. She truly cares about her students, and takes the extra steps to make sure that they succeed and that they get help when they need it. I don't understand why proven instructors who are so committed to teaching undergraduates like Gladys and Link (and Tom Downard and Susan Picillo in Comm) are no longer considered congruent with NU's "Academic Plan." Good job you guys for organizing yourself to get your voice heard!
From the School of Journalism Website:
Gladys McKie:
Professor McKie teaches public relations courses and desk-top publishing. She is a faculty advisor for Public Relations Student Society of America and a member of the Public Relations Society of America. Following graduation from Northeastern University School of Journalism in 1980, she was a staff reporter, photographer and graphic designer for Nursing Pulse of New England. She has held professional public relations positions for Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston and Newton Wellesley Hospital in Newton. She owned McKie Communications, an agency providing public relations, advertising and graphic design services for eight years before joining the School of Journalism Faculty at Northeastern University. In addition to teaching, she is a student in Northeastern University’s Law, Policy and Society Ph.D. program. Her research interest is communicating public policy.
Lincoln McKie:
Link McKie is a longtime newspaperman who in recent years has added consulting and teaching to his career.
Professor McKie began his career in journalism in 1970 as a regional reporter for the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Mass. In 20 years at the Telegram & Gazette, he was also a general assignment and city government reporter, copy editor, assignment editor, assistant city editor, city editor and managing editor for the Worcester Telegram, and managing editor/news for the combined Telegram & Gazette. He later became executive editor of The Sun of Lowell, Mass., and publisher of Journal Transcript Newspapers, a group of five community newspapers based in Revere, Mass.
During the past 12 years, he founded and ran Lincoln Associates, a communication consulting company. Clients in news publishing have included The Sun Chronicle of Attleboro, Mass., the Norwalk (Conn.) Hour, the York County (Maine) Coast Star, the Dover (N.H.) Times, and Network World. Other clients have included Worcester Academy, the Worcester Boys & Girls Club, Worcester Memorial Hospital, Tweeds Restaurants, Millbury Savings Bank, Revere Federal Savings, Danvers Savings Bank, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Winthrop Federal Credit Union, and the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Committee.
McKie began teaching journalism part-time in 1994, at Northeastern University and Boston University. He has taught journalism full-time as a member of the Northeastern faculty since 2000. His company also is publication manager for the New England Press Association Bulletin, a monthly newspaper for the 500 members of the association throughout New England.
McKie has presented numerous workshops on journalism at newspaper conventions, and on marketing and Netiquette to business groups and corporate clients, during the past 15 years.
He has completed three week-long seminars at the American Press Institute in Reston, Va., for city editors, for news managers, and for publishers. McKie is a 1970 cum laude graduate of Boston University, with a bachelor of science degree in journalism.