Angela Powers
Professor and director of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Angela Powers came to higher education with professional experience in television
news as a reporter for NBC and CBS affiliates.
Powers is an expert on media management and digital news convergence. She has developed international exchange programs between universities in the United States, Spain and Denmark.
She is a Senior Fulbright specialist and spent two semesters as a Fulbright Scholar at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, a Catholic institution with about 4,000 students. Powers lectured on research related to media management and broadcast news and worked with students to produce a magazine-type news program that aired on the largest cable system in Kaunas. She also worked with the chair of the university's Graduate School of Journalism to develop Lithuania's first Ph.D. program in mass media. She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on media management and broadcast news.
Her Ph.D. in mass media is from Michigan State University. She has 25 years of teaching and research experience and was the recipient of the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1997 at Northern Illinois University. She has also taught at Arizona State University, University of North Florida and Loyola University of Chicago. She also was assistant director of the Northern Illinois University Honors program.
Powers can be reached by phone at 785-532-3963 and via e-mail at apowers@k-state.edu.