Pam Creedon

Associate Director for External Relations
M.A., University of Oregon
Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-335-1370
pam-creedon@uiowa.edu

Prof. Creedon came to the University of Iowa in 2002 to assume duties as director of School of Journalism and Mass Communication and to raise funds needed to build the Philip D. Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building, opened in 2005.  After completing a five-year term as director in 2007, Prof. Creedon chose to assume duties in a newly created position as Associate Director for Internships and External Relations and to return to teaching.  Prior to coming to Iowa, she served as director and professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University for eight years. During her directorships, both Iowa and Kent State programs were re-accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Prof. Creedon started her academic career in 1984 at The Ohio State University, where she taught journalism, advertising and public relations courses for 10 years.

Recently, she was elected as a member of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She was electged president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC), an organization for administrators of journalism and mass communication programs and has served as a member of the Hearst Journalism Awards Committee. She also has served on the executive committee of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, where she was elected to the Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility and as chair of the Commission on the Status of Women.

In addition to AEJMC and ASJMC, she is a member of the International Communication Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the International Association of Media and Communication Research, and the International Association of Business Communicators. She serves on the editorial boards of Public Relations Review and the Journal of Public Relations Research. She is the editor of two books published by Sage: Women in Mass Communication: Challenging Gender Values and Women, Media and Sport. Recently, she completed a book for Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers titled Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication: A 30-Year Update with Ramona Rush of The University of Kentucky and Carol Oukrop of Kansas State University. Prof. Creedon also has been involved in higher education in the Middle East for more than a decade. She made her first visit to the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain and most recently, she has been involved as chair of International Advisory Board of the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University, which has campuses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

An accredited business communicator (ABC), she worked as an alumni magazine editor, public information officer and public relations practitioner for 15 years before entering academe. Her public relations experience in the field includes 10 years in higher education, where she was the first woman to direct the Public Information Office at Mount Union College. She also spent five years in public relations at Babcock & Wilcox, a McDermott International company, which was then a Fortune 100 company, where she was active in the International Association of Business Communicators. McDermott was active in building offshore oil platforms in the Arabian Gulf.

Prof. Creedon earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and her bachelor's degree in English from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio.