Please join us in congratulating our 2026-2027 BEA Executive Committee!
At the November 2025 BEA Board Meeting, new executive committee members were elected to serve the BEA membership. The terms for the newly elected executive committee members begin following BEA’s annual convention in April.
Please join us in congratulating the new executive committee officers:
President — Thom Baggerman, Point Park University
Vice President for Academic Relations – Sara Magee, Loyola University Maryland
Secretary/Treasurer – Adam Kuban, Ball State University
Jennifer Meadows, Chico State will continue to serve on the executive committee as Immediate Past President.
BEA is pleased to announce that Sara Magee, Loyola University Maryland, has been newly elected to the executive committee as Vice President for Academic Relations and Adam Kuban, Ball State University has been newly elected as the Secretary/Treasurer. They will continue as district representatives until April when they start their terms along with Thom Baggerman.
We had a successful board meeting, thanks to the leadership of BEA President Jennifer Meadows, Chico State, and continue to focus on how we can help BEA grow in a changing academic and media world. Watch for the launch of a workshop for graduate students and teaching and research tracks, the launch of BEAi (BEA’s intelligent and interactive community) and a board of directors’ restructure to better integrate the activities of BEA interest divisions.
BEA’s newly elected executive committee will begin their term in April along with the following District Representatives that were elected (and/or re-elected) this past October:
District 1 – Nick Artman, Slippery Rock University (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island & Vermont)
District 3 – Chris Strobel, Northern Kentucky University (Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Washington, DC & West Virginia)
District 5 – Stephen Price, University of Central Missouri (Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas)
District 7 – Teresa (Terry) Filipowicz, Pima Community College (all 2-Year in the US)
The following district representatives will also continue to serve on the board through April 2027.
District 2 – Antonio Mora, University of Miami (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina & Tennessee)
District 4 – Adam Kuban, Ball State University (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota & Wisconsin)*
District 6 – Victor Evans, Seattle University (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington & Wyoming)
District 8 – Deborah Wilson David, Nottingham Trent University (All international colleges and universities)
Special thanks to the service of Kathleen Ryan, University of Colorado Boulder, BEA Secretary/Treasurer and Brian Shelton, Harper College, District 7, who are rotating off the board in April 2026. Kathleen has been a driving force behind our 75th anniversary oral history project, and both Kathleen and Brian have been instrumental in the shaping of the restructuring of our BEA board of directors.
*During the discussions surrounding our board restructuring, we will consider a special election to fill the remainer of Adam’s term when he begins his term with the Executive Committee in April.