Lance Lippert
Professor
School of Communication
Office
FEL Fell Hall 464
Office Hours
Monday-Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm; Tuesday & Thursday 10:00-11:00: & by appointment.
Office Phone
Email
- About
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Biography
He is the Program Coordinator for the Communication Studies Program in the School of Communication. Lance has published on topics in the areas of organizational, health, and instructional communication. He holds degrees from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Fort Hays State University. He has consulted for various public, private, and governmental organizations including health care, small business, large and small corporations, education (higher education and K-12), and non-profits to help them improve organizational effectiveness. Presently, he teaches organizational communication, leadership communication, health communication, training & development, and qualitative research methods.
Current Courses
COM 433.001 Seminar In Leadership Communication
COM 388.001 Senior Capstone: Communication Studies
COM 409.001 Seminar in Health Communication
COM 388.001 Senior Capstone: Communication Studies
Teaching Interests & Areas
Organizational Communication, Leadership Communication, Health Communication, Training & Development, and Qualitative Methods.
Research Interests & Areas
Workplace communication, civic & political engagement and pedagogy, applied communication, leadership communication, humor use in communication, communication in health care, instructional communication.
Comstock Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award
School of Communication
2011
Grants & Contracts
Building partnerships to diversify the teacher education pipeline and facilitate civic and political learning to enhance the placement of teachers in high needs areas. McCormick Foundation. Private. (2018)
Supporting Illinois State’s American Democracy Project: Expanding the pedagogy and scholarship of engagement. McCormick Foundation. Private. (2011)
Diversity: Meeting the needs of all students. Illinois Professional Learners' Partnership, U.S. Department of Education. Federal. (2001)
Mediated Immediacy: Text-based forms for teacher-student afficilation. Center for the Advancement of Teaching (Teaching-Learning Development Program). Illinois State University.
Mediated immediacy: Teacher-student affiliation and distance education in contexts. Center for the Advancement of Teaching (Teaching-Learning Development Program). Illinois State University.
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant. Chicago Teacher Pipeline Program.
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant. Illinois Professional Learners' Partnership.
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Illinois Professional Learners' Partnership.
Teaching and Learning Development Grant. Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. Illinois State University.
Book, Authored
Lippert, L., & Hunt, S. An Ethnographic Study of the Role of Humor in Health Care Transactions. Mellen (2005)
Book, Chapter
Angell, M., Boyd, M., Hunt, S., Lippert, L., Moore, M., & Kolloff, P. Partnership Power: Developing Preservice and Inservice Modules on Reaching and Teaching Diverse Learners. S. D. Lenski & W. L. Black (EDs), Transforming Teacher Education Through Partnerships. Mellen (2004): 434-450.
Zompetti, J., Baldwin, J., & Lippert, L. The Internationalization of a Communication Studies Major: A Global Redesign. Paaige K. Turner, Soumia Bardhan, Tracey Quigley Holden & Edda Mbula Mutua (EDs), Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization: Why, What, and How
Book, Edited
Lippert, L., Hall, R.D., Miller-Ott, A. E., & Davis, D. (Eds.) (2019). Communicating Mental Health: History, Concepts, & Perspectives. Lexington Books.
Blaney, J. R., Lippert, L. R., and Smith, J. S. (Eds.). (2013). Repairing the Athlete's Image: Studies in Sports Image Restoration. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Journal Article
Zompetti, J. P., Lippert, L. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2024). Considering AI for the classroom to boost civic learning and democratic engagement. eJournal of Public Affairs, 12(1). https://www.ejournalofpublicaffairs.org/considering-ai-for-the-classroom-to-boost-civic-learning-and-democratic-engagement/
Gyamfi, P.A., Lippert, L., Baldwin, J.R., & Hooker, J.F. (2021). Predictors of patient satisfaction and perceived quality of healthcare: College healthcare providers and students' communication. Journal of American College Health, 69. https://doi-org.libproxy.lib.ilstu.edu/10.1080/07448481.2021.1891916
Hunt, S. K., Meyer, K. R., Hooker, J. F., Simonds, C. J., & Lippert, L. R. (2016). Implementing the political engagement project in an introductory communication course: An examination of the effects on students’ political knowledge, efficacy, skills, behavior, and ideology. eJournal of Public Affairs, 5(2), 116-151. doi: 10.21768/ejopa.v5i2.111
Simonds, B., Lippert, L., Hunt, S., Angell, M., & Moore, M. Communication and diversity: Innovation in teacher education. Communication Teacher 22 (2008): 56-65.
Hunt, S., Meyer, K., & Lippert, L. Missing the Opportunity to Advance Argumentation Instruction? Reply to Sellnow and Polcar. Argumentation & Advocacy 42 (2006): 175-178.
Lippert, L., Titsworth, B., & Hunt, S. The ecology of academic risk: Relationships between communication apprehension, verbal aggression, supportive communication and students' academic risk status. Communication Studies 56 (2005): 1-21.
O'Sullivan, P., Hunt, S., & Lippert, L. Mediated immediacy: A language of affiliation in a technical age. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 23 (2004): 1-27.
Hunt, S., & Lippert, L. Instructor Training for Implementing Technology and Media in the Speech Communication Classroom. Journal of the Illinois Speech and Theater Assosciation 50 (1999): 65-72.
Hunt, S., & Lippert, L. Student Populations At-Risk for Educational Failure: What Does it Mean to be At-Risk and Why Should Speech Communication Educators Care?. Journal of Communication Studies 18 (1999): 36-49.
Garard, D., Hunt, S., Lippert, L., & Paynton, S. Alternatives to traditional instruction: Using games and simulations to increase student learning and motivation. Communication Research Reports 15 (1998): 36-44.
Textbook, New
Hahn, L., Lippert, L., & Paynton, S. Survey of Communication Study (2011)
Presentations
Horn, D., Lippert, L. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2021, June). How to go from a civically scripted campus to a civically minded campus. Presented at the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement conference (virtual). https://app.socio.events/OTgxNQ/Agenda/137508/Session/397171
Miller-Ott, A. E., & Lippert, L. R. (Facilitators). (2020, November). Spotlight panel on mental health (Part #1): Studying mental health in interpersonal relationships and families. Panel presented to the Interpersonal Communication Division, National Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN
Miller-Ott, A. E., & Lippert, L. R. (Facilitators). (2020, November). Spotlight panel on mental health (Part #2): Studying mental health within organizational structures. Panel presented to the Health Communication Division, National Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN
Benenson, J., Weare, A. M., Hunt, S. K., Lippert, L. R., Pickering, B., & Starke, A. (2019, April). Speaking of politics: A project to improve political engagement on campus. Panel presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Omaha, NE.
Davis, S., Goldberg, A., Hunt, S. K., Koether, S., Lippert, L. R., Murray, L., Pickering, B., & Thomas, N. (2019, June). Assessing campus climate for political learning. Presented at the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Hunt, S. K., Lippert, L. R., Woolard, C., & Carpenter, N. (2018, June). Integrating civic learning outcomes across all majors in a school of communication. Presented at the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement conference, Anaheim, CA.
Cultivating and Sustaining Social Media Analytics for Writing and Research. Central States Communication Association. (2017)
Hunt, S. K., Carpenter, N., Lippert, L. R., Woolard, C. E., Hantzis, D. M., & Bodary, D. L. (2017, November). Civic engagement in communication pedagogy: Theories, practices, and new techniques to foster student civic learning. Presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Dallas, TX.
Schreiner, A., Beck, A., Diel-Hunt, S. J., Hunt, S. K., Lippert, L. R., Carpenter, N. J., & Williamson, D. (2016, June). 80 million square pegs, on round hole: How civic technology is redefining the ways millennials engage with the 2016 election and beyond. Presented at the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
Talking SMACC about social media: How to incorporate social media analytics in the classroom.. Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium. Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technolofy. (2015)
Teaching with Social Media. Summer Institute Faculty Fellows Workshop. CTLT. (2015)
Carr, C. T., Baldwin, J. R., Lippert, L. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2015, November). A chilling effect: Analysis of the effects of Institutional Review Board (IRB) communication on faculty. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Hunt, S., Carpenter, N., Hopper, K.M., Lippert, L., & Moore, M. (2015, April). Talking SMACC about social media: Converging scholarship through cutting-edge technology in the classroom. Discussion panel presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Madison, WI.
Lippert, L. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2015, June). Programmatic assessment of civic engagement outcomes for redesigned courses. Poster presented at the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Funding for civic engagement in the classroom: The community engaged learning grant program. Illinois State University Teaching and Learning Symposium. Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. (2013)
Civic and political engagement in the communication discipline. 5th Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Research. Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Research. (2012)
Connecting to learn: New and established assessment practices in communication. Annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association. Central States Communication Association. (2012)
Raising money to support a civic engagement program. Annual meeting of the American Democracy Project. American Association of State Colleges and Universities. (2012)
Better Together: University Partnerships for Civic Engagement. Annual CTLT Teaching and Learning Symposium. (2011)
Building Campus Communities Through Civic Engagement Collaboration. Building Campus Community Through Collaborative Problem Solving. Heartland Community College. (2011)
Engaging Communication Students: Assessing the Vertical Infusion of Civic Engagement and Servicelearning Throughout the Communication Major. Central States Communication Association conference. CSCA. (2011)
Expanding the role of civic and political engagement: A case study of SoTL program development. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. (2011)
From research into practice: Current cases of SoTL impact as championed by communication educators. Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association. (2011)
Growing the Civic Engagement and Responsibility Minor. Annual CTLT Teaching and Learning Symposium. (2011)
"I want to go home": Facilitating eldery care and the prospects of staying home. Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association. (2011)