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Expert Source: Melinda Rhodes, Ph.D.

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Melinda Rhodes is a journalist and qualitative researcher in the fields of community journalism and higher education curriculum and instruction, specifically women’s education. Rhodes spent more than a decade editing community newspapers in Kansas and Missouri. She serves on the editorial board of NetworkNews, a national newsletter for the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education’s Network, and was most recently editor of the West Missouri Spirit, the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri’s newspaper, which is distributed across half the state. She is a member of the College Media Advisers Association and coordinates programming for that organization as diversity committee chair. She advises OWU’s student newspaper, The Transcript. She has received recognition for her work from the Missouri and Kansas press associations and the Episcopal Communicators.

Education:

Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ed.S. and M.A., Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kan.
B.A., Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, Mo.

Areas of Expertise:

Community journalism
Women’s education
Women’s colleges

Selected Publications / Activities:

Rhodes, Melinda. “Campus Roundtable Offers Wealth of Information on GLBT Issues.” CMA Online. College Media Advisors. 2009.
Rhodes, M. (October 2008). “NLGJA roundtable offers best practices and sound advice to media advisers and student journalists.” College Media Advisers.
Rhodes, M. (October 2008) “Do as I say, not as I do: What the pages of a small student newspaper really say about diversity.” Presentation at the biennial meeting of the College Media Advisers, Kansas City, Mo.