- Bio
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- Dr. Frank E. Parcells has
worked over 40 years in the communication industry in areas such
as commercial broadcasting, Internet service provider, marketing
communication, nonprofit agencies, public relations, audience
and sales promotions, and universities and colleges. He is familiar
with strategic planning through corporate communication imaging,
employee relations, crisis communication, online presence creation,
promotions and publicity, target audiences and markets.
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- His broadcast career began
in 1965, and while in college in 1967, he started a radio station
at Kendall College in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Parcells' commercial
radio career extended for fifteen years including the management
of commercial and noncommercial stations in Denver, Portland,
Rockford, Mt. Carmel, IL, and more. Parcells started his public
relations firm in central Illinois in 1983 which later became
a viable multiservice online public relations agency until 2003,
when he partnered with other professional communicators to create
and operate AdMark Communications, a full service marketing communication
agency, which they closed in 2008. Parcells has operated his
own Internet service provider business which was sold in 2000
to the largest regional ISP serving Illinois and Indiana - Cincinnatti Bell,
and managed a Web hosting service in middle Tennessee from 2001
through today called TNHosting.net,
and his current, primary focus on marketing communication and
his university professorship.
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- Parcells operates a nonprofit
organization which provides middle Tennessee not-for-profit incorporated
organizations with free web hosting. Tennessee Volunteerism offers nonprofit agencies
many Internet services including website hosting, domain name
hosting, email accounts, and many others. Dr. Parcells APSU Internet
Technology students in his graduate and undergraduate web design
classes build websites for nonprofit groups and then TNVol.org hosts more tha sixty of these sites
for free with the only cost of an annual domian name registration
fee of $7.13.
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- Higher education has also
played a major role in the life of Frank Parcells. He
completed his Ph. D. in 1983 at
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in
communication with emphases in broadcasting, communication
education, interpersonal communication, and qualitative and quantitative
research methods. Dr. Parcells is a Professor Emeritus following
early retirement from Eastern Illinois University 's Communication
Studies Department , formerly the Speech Communication Department,
following 20 years of teaching communication and speech classes.
During his tenure at Eastern, he received seven Faculty Excellence
Awards. He received a National Association of Broadcasters Retraining
Grant in 1989, where he studied station and staff relations and
personnel evaluation at the WTSO and Z/104 radio stations in
Madison, WI. He also earned a coveted Professional Advancement
Increase for his balanced professional performance in teaching,
research/creative activity, and service at Eastern Illinois University.
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- Today, Dr. Parcells coordinates
the Austin Peay State University Department of Communication
graduate program in corporate
communication and general
communication. The Corporate Communication program offers
an all online Master's degree in communication industry management
for working communication professionals and interested full time
student populations. The General Communication program offers
a track to secondary school, community college, college and even
university teaching as well as permitting students to enroll
in Theatre elective courses. Parcells is a Professor of Mass
Communication who is actively involved teaching communication
classes as well as service on the university's Graduate and Research Council and Technology Committee. Parcells also serves
as Chairperson of the Austin Peay State University Faculty Research Fund Grant Awards Committee.
He is a member of the American Marketing Association, Broadcast
Education Association, International Association of Business
Communicators, National Communication Association, and Public
Relations Society of America. He currently serves as the Executive
Vice President of the Nashville
International Association of Business Communicators and Chair
of it's 2011 Gold
Pen Awards for the works of professional communicators. Dr.
Parcells is an active member of the Nashville AMA and Nashville PRSA Chapters. He also holds lifetime
memberships in Phi
Kappa Phi, the national honor society, as well as the APSU Phi
Kappa Phi Chapter. Parcells received the 2006 Nashville IABC
President's Award for his contributions to the growth and management
of that Chapter. He has published in national, regional, and
state scholarly journals, and made numerous national convention
program presentations as recently as the 2008 Broadcast Education
Association Convention.
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