Posted: March 6th, 2023
Communication and Crisis Response
Introduction
Your response to crisis has the ability to diffuse or ignite. While it is difficult to anticipate every possible crisis, it is possible to prepare and to learn from the response of others.
Instructions:
In this assignment you will have the opportunity to examine and analyze crisis response, related to stakeholder communication.
1. Research, analyze and present an educational institution’s or program’s response to a crisis that occurred in the last five years.
2. Develop a presentation analyzing an institution’s or program’s response to a crisis.
○ Provide a summary of the crisis and the response from the institution or program.
○ How was information related to this crisis communicated? (e.g. news conference, town hall, written communication, etc.)
○ Based on what you have learned about crisis response, was this handled appropriately? Why or why not?
○ Anything else that could be done? ○ Cite evidence from the reading or other scholarly sources, to
support your analysis.
Chapter 3: Legal & Ethical Aspects
Chapter 9: Community Relations
Chapter 10: Media Relations
Chapter 13: Responding to a Crisis
Warner, Carolyn (2009). Promoting Your School: Going Beyond PR. (3rd Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Chapter 5: Media Relations
Chapter 11: Crisis Management
WCNC Staff (2018). CMS Superintendent: We Don’t Search Every Bag That Comes Into School. Retrieved from https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/cms-superintendent-we-had-a-breakdown-as- parents-storm-butler-campus-after-shooting/275-609116338
Links to an external site.
Sanchez, A. (2018). Greendale Students Raise Their Voices, Saying High School Has Tense Racial Climate. Retrieved from https://fox6now.com/2018/10/22/greendale-students-raise-their-voices-saying-high-scho ol-has-tense-racial-climate/
Links to an external site.
Recommended (Optional) Reading Materials Gaydos, R. & Miles, F. (2018). Wisconsin High School Cheerleaders Received Awards for Biggest Breasts, Butt at Banquet. Retrieved from https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-high-school-cheerleaders-received-awards-for-b iggest-breasts-butt-at-banquet.amp Links to an external site.
In the last five years, there have been several crises that have impacted educational institutions and programs. One such crisis occurred in 2019 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where a college admissions scandal was uncovered. In this presentation, we will examine UCLA’s response to the crisis and analyze how the institution communicated with its stakeholders. In March 2019, it was revealed that UCLA was one of several universities involved in a nationwide college admissions scandal. The scandal involved parents bribing college officials to ensure their children’s admission to prestigious universities. At UCLA, the scandal involved the men’s soccer coach accepting bribes to admit students as recruits to the soccer team, even if they did not play the sport.
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