To be recognized as a world-class media and strategic communication professor, scholar, consultant, and practitioner of African origin, by establishing an excellent teaching record, a remarkable service impact, and a first-rate research agenda that speaks to some of the deepest cutting multidisciplinary issues of today and tomorrow.
To be recognized as a world-class media and strategic communication professor, scholar, consultant, and practitioner of African origin, by establishing an excellent teaching record, a remarkable service impact, and a first-rate research agenda that speaks to some of the deepest cutting multidisciplinary issues of today and tomorrow.
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I am Eric Kwame Adae, Ph.D., APR., an Assistant Professor of Public Relations at Drake University, where I teach in both undergraduate and graduate public relations programs. I am also an accredited public relations professional.
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"I believe that nothing great can happen without compelling communication. Always communicate with an open heart to give the needed edge to whatever you do."
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Prof Adae earned both undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Ghana. He was a media and communications consultant for 10 years in Ghana, with expertise in public relations, advertising, brand development and management, event management and strategic change communication.
In 2021, Dr. Eric Kwame Adae and Professor Donnalyn Pompper won the Doug Newsom Award for Global Ethics and Diversity for the Public Relations Division, with their research paper titled “Public Relations and Sustainability across the African Continent: Using Afro-Centric Philosophies to Remember What’s Been ‘Forgotten or Lost’” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference
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PRSA Iowa member Eric Kwame Adae, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of public relations at Drake University.
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