Dr. Kevin Trowbridge and Hope Buckner presented a session at the Counselors to Higher Education Senior Summit, held April 11-13 in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference was sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America.
The session, “Gatekeeping in a World of No Gates,” engaged more than a hundred higher education communication professionals with best practices for building collaborative partnerships to most effectively communicate the organization’s story to internal and external audiences.
Buckner is the assistant director of communications and an adjunct instructor at Belmont where she teaches Nonprofit Public Relations and Development. Trowbridge is an assistant professor of public relations. Prior to becoming an educator, Trowbridge practiced public relations primarily in higher education, including service as the vice president of communications at a higher education association in Washington, D.C.