Beth E. Barnes, Ph.D., is director of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky . She teaches in the Integrated Strategic Communication major as well as courses in the Communications graduate program. Barnes was previously at Syracuse University ’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Professional Studies and as chair of the Advertising Department. She has also taught at Penn State University and at Miami (OH) University .