Lance Lippert
Professor
Office
FEL Fell Hall 464
Office Hours
Monday-Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm; Tuesday & Thursday 10:00-11:00: & by appointment.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
He is the Program Coordinator for the Communication Studies Program in the School of Communication. Lance has published on topics in the areas of organizational, health, and instructional communication. He holds degrees from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Fort Hays State University. He has consulted for various public, private, and governmental organizations including health care, small business, large and small corporations, education (higher education and K-12), and non-profits to help them improve organizational effectiveness. Presently, he teaches organizational communication, leadership communication, health communication, training & development, and qualitative research methods.
Current Courses
COM 433.001 Seminar In Leadership Communication
COM 388.001 Senior Capstone: Communication Studies
Teaching Interests & Areas
Organizational Communication, Leadership Communication, Health Communication, Training & Development, and Qualitative Methods.
Research Interests & Areas
Workplace communication, civic & political engagement and pedagogy, applied communication, leadership communication, humor use in communication, communication in health care, instructional communication.
Comstock Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award
School of Communication
2011
Grants and Contracts
Building partnerships to diversify the teacher education pipeline and facilitate civic and political learning to enhance the placement of teachers in high needs areas
Stephen K. Hunt, Lance R. Lippert, Barbara Meyer.
McCormick Foundation. January 2018
Supporting Illinois State’s American Democracy Project: Expanding the pedagogy and scholarship of engagement
Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert.
McCormick Foundation. December 2011 - December 2013
Diversity: Meeting the needs of all students
Stephen Hunt, Maureen Angell, Mary Ann Boyd, Penny Kolloff, Marilyn Moore, Lance Lippert.
Illinois Professional Learners' Partnership, U.S. Department of Education. September 2001
Mediated Immediacy: Text-based forms for teacher-student afficilation
Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert, Patrick O'Sullivan.
Center for the Advancement of Teaching (Teaching-Learning Development Program).
Mediated immediacy: Teacher-student affiliation and distance education in contexts
Stephen Hunt, Patrick O'Sullivan, Lance Lippert, Susan Owens, Ann-Marie Rowe.
Center for the Advancement of Teaching (Teaching-Learning Development Program).
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant
Stephen Hunt, Brent Simonds, Maureen Angell, Lance Lippert, Paula Crowley.
Chicago Teacher Pipeline Program.
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant
Stephen Hunt, Maureen Angell, Penny Kolloff, Marilyn Moore, Lance Lippert, Brent Simonds.
Illinois Professional Learners' Partnership.
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant from the U.S. Department of Education
Stephen Hunt, Maureen Angell, Marilyn Moore, Lance Lippert, Brent Simonds.
Illinois Professional Learners' Partnership.
Teaching and Learning Development Grant
Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert.
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology.
Book, Authored
An Ethnographic Study of the Role of Humor in Health Care Transactions
Lance Lippert, Stephen Hunt.
(2005), Mellen
Book, Chapter
Partnership Power: Developing Preservice and Inservice Modules on Reaching and Teaching Diverse Learners
M E Angell, M A Boyd, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert, M K Moore, P B Kolloff.
(2004), 434-450, Transforming Teacher Education Through Partnerships, Mellen
The Internationalization of a Communication Studies Major: A Global Redesign
Joseph Zompetti, John Baldwin, Lance Lippert.
Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization: Why, What, and How
Book, Edited
Communicating Mental Health: History, Concepts, & Perspectives.
Lance Lippert, Robert Hall, Aimee Miller-Ott, Daniel Davis.
(2019), Lexington Books
"Repairing the Athlete's Image: Studies in Sports Image Restoration"
Joseph Blaney, Lance Lippert, James Scott Smith.
(2012), 414, Lexington Books
Journal Article
Considering AI for the classroom to boost civic learning and democratic engagement
Joseph Zompetti, Lance Lippert, Stephen K Hunt.
eJournal of Public Affairs, 12 (1), (2024)
Predictors of patient satisfaction and perceived quality of healthcare: College healthcare providers and students' communication
Prince Adu Gyamfi, Lance Lippert, John R Baldwin, John Hooker.
(2021)
Implementing the political engagement project in an introductory communication course: An examination of the effects on students’ political knowledge, efficacy, skills, behavior, and ideology
Steve Hunt, Kevin Meyer, John Hooker, Cheri Simonds, Lance Lippert.
eJournal of Public Affairs, 5 (2), 116-151, (2016), 10.21768/ejopa.v5i2.111
Communication and diversity: Innovation in teacher education
Brent Simonds, Lance Lippert, Stephen Hunt, M E Angell, M K Moore.
Communication Teacher, 22, 56-65, (2008)
Missing the Opportunity to Advance Argumentation Instruction? Reply to Sellnow and Polcar
Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer, Lance Lippert.
Argumentation & Advocacy, 42, 175-178, (2006)
The ecology of academic risk: Relationships between communication apprehension, verbal aggression, supportive communication and students' academic risk status
Lance Lippert, B S Titsworth, Stephen Hunt.
Communication Studies, 56, 1-21, (2005)
Mediated immediacy: A language of affiliation in a technical age
P B O'Sullivan, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert.
Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 23, 1-27, (2004)
Instructor Training for Implementing Technology and Media in the Speech Communication Classroom
Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert.
Journal of the Illinois Speech and Theater Assosciation, 50, 65-72, (1999)
Student Populations At-Risk for Educational Failure: What Does it Mean to be At-Risk and Why Should Speech Communication Educators Care?
Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert.
Journal of Communication Studies, 18, 36-49, (1999)
Alternatives to traditional instruction: Using games and simulations to increase student learning and motivation
D L Garard, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert, S Paynton.
Communication Research Reports, 15, 36-44, (1998)
Textbook, New
Survey of Communication Study
L K Hahn, Lance Lippert, S T Paynton.
(2011)
Presentations
Image repair differences between human and AI-generated messaging: The case of the Chicago White Sox
Kevin R Meyer, Joseph Blaney, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert, K. Megan Hopper, Roy David Magnuson.
Annual Convention of the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV, April, 2025
How to go from a civically scripted campus to a civically minded campus
Dakota Horn, Lance R Lippert, Stephen K Hunt.
Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Online, June 11, 2021
Spotlight panel on mental health (Part #1): Studying mental health in interpersonal relationships and families
Aimee Miller-Ott, Lance Lippert.
Central States Communication Association, Online, November, 2020
Spotlight panel on mental health (Part #2): Studying mental health within organizational structures.
Aimee Miller-Ott, Lance Lippert.
National Communication Association, Online, November, 2020
Assessing campus climate for political learning
Sheree Davis, Abe Goldberg, Stephen K. Hunt, Steven Koether, Lance R. Lippert, Leah Murray, Barbara Pickering, Nancy Thomas.
Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, June 8, 2019
Speaking of politics: A project to improve political engagement on campus
Jodi Benenson, Andrea M Weare, Stephen K Hunt, Lance R Lippert, Barbara Pickering, Anthony Starke.
Central States Communication Association Convention, Bloomington, April 6, 2019
Integrating civic learning outcomes across all majors in a school of communication
Stephen K Hunt, Lance R Lippert, Chad E Woolard, Nathan J Carpenter.
Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Bloomington, June 9, 2018
Civic engagement in communication pedagogy: Theories, practices, and new techniques to foster student civic learning
Stephen K. Hunt, Nathan J. Carpenter, Lance R. Lippert, Chad E. Woolard, Darlene M. Hantzis, David L. Bodary.
National Communication Association, Dallas, TX, November, 2017
Cultivating and Sustaining Social Media Analytics for Writing and Research
Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert.
Central States Communication Association, Minneapolis, MN, March 18, 2017
80 million square pegs, on round hole: How civic technology is redefining the ways millennials engage with the 2016 election and beyond
Alex Schnreiner, Alida Beck, Sarah J. Diel-Hunt, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert, Nathan Carpenter, Dylan Williamson.
Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Indianapolis, IN, June 3, 2016
A chilling effect: Analysis of the effects of Institutional Review Board (IRB) communication on faculty
Caleb T. Carr, John R. Baldwin, Lance R. Lippert, Stephen K. Hunt.
Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV, November, 2015
Programmatic assessment of civic engagement outcomes for redesigned courses
Lance R. Lippert, Stephen K. Hunt.
Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, New Orleans, LA, June, 2015
Teaching with Social Media
Stephen Hunt, Nathan Carpenter, K. Megan Hopper, Lance Lippert, .
Summer Institute Faculty Fellows Workshop, Normal, IL, June 10, 2015
Talking SMACC about social media: Converging scholarship through cutting-edge technology in the classroom.
Stephen Hunt, Nathan Carpenter, K. Megan Hopper, Lance Lippert, Maria A Moore.
Central States Communication Association, Madison, WI, April 16, 2015
Talking SMACC about social media: How to incorporate social media analytics in the classroom.
Stephen Hunt, Nathan Carpenter, K. Megan Hopper, Lance Lippert, Maria A Moore.
Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January, 2015
Funding for civic engagement in the classroom: The community engaged learning grant program
Lance Lippert, Patricia Jarvis, Jennifer Campion Friberg, Maria Schmeeckle, W VanderNoordaa, C Dyer.
Illinois State University Teaching and Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January, 2013
Civic and political engagement in the communication discipline
Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert.
5th Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Research, Chicago, IL, August, 2012
Raising money to support a civic engagement program
R. Dunfee, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert, G. Kaufman, W. M. Loker.
Annual meeting of the American Democracy Project, San Antonio, TX, June, 2012
Connecting to learn: New and established assessment practices in communication
Lance Lippert, Stephen Hunt, R. K. Dillon, K. Wood, C. Martin, Sam Wallace.
Annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Cleveland, OH, April, 2012
From research into practice: Current cases of SoTL impact as championed by communication educators
M A Moore, Stephen Hunt, Joseph Zompetti, Lance Lippert, J McDade.
Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November, 2011
Expanding the role of civic and political engagement: A case study of SoTL program development
Maria A Moore, Stephen Hunt, Jeffrey L Courtright, Lance Lippert, J McDade.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Milwaukee, WI, October, 2011
Strategies for institutionalizing civic engagement: Implementing a campus-wide interdisciplinary minor in civic engagement
Lance Lippert.
Annual Meeting of the American Democracy Project, Orlando, FL, June, 2011
Incorporating Civic Engagment in Tenure and Promotion Policies
Lance Lippert, Joseph Zompetti.
American Democracy Project conference, Orlando, FL, June 4, 2011
"I want to go home": Facilitating eldery care and the prospects of staying home
Lance Lippert.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2011
Promoting civic engagement and service-learning across campus: Implementing an interdisciplinary civic engagement minor
Lance Lippert.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2011