Dr. Paul E. Nelson

Professor

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Office: Minard 321G
Phone: (701) 231-7705

Hired by NDSU in the year 2000 to chair the Department of Communication and to launch a new doctoral program with my spouse, Dr. Judy C. Pearson, I am now head of the department. I teach undergraduate courses because that is my preference. I have professed and administered at the University of Missouri, Iowa State University, Ohio University, and Virginia Tech, before coming to NDSU. I was Dean of the College of Communication at Ohio University for fifteen years.

I have four degrees from the University of Minnesota with post-doc work both at Harvard and at Columbia University. I have written many college textbooks with my spouse, so many that I honestly don't know the count. All I know is that we have been writing textbooks for three decades.

I do advise doctoral students, mainly professional people who decided to earn a degree after years of toil. Mostly I teach and advise our large number of undergraduate majors and seek to please our faculty and graduate students.