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Dr. Glen Kleine is a retired professor emeritus from the Department of Communication at Eastern Kentucky University where he began teaching in 1967. He served as the faculty adviser for The Eastern Progress during his first two years at EKU.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Kleine received both a B.S. degree in 1957 and an M.A. degree in journalism in 1959 from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. While at EKU he completed an Ed. S. degree in 1973. He completed an Ed.D. degree in educational administration at East Tennessee State University in 1982. Dr. Kleine worked for several years at the St. Louis Post Dispatch prior to coming to EKU.
Dr. Kleine served as Chair of the Department of Mass Communications from 1983 to 1990. He also served as Dean of the College of Applied Arts and Technology from 1990 to 1997.
Dr. Kleine developed a variety of journalism courses while serving in the Department of English at EKU. He was actively involved in developing both the EKU journalism major and minor. He was the first faculty member to offer public relations courses in the department and was actively involved in developing of a public relations major at EKU. He also taught photojournalism courses at EKU for more than 20 years. Dr. Kleine also designed and conducted media tours for EKU students to: Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C.
He remained professionally active serving as a news and sports writing instructor at the 1996 Olympic Youth Camp, serving as a judge for the Annual Red Smith Kentucky Derby Writing Contest sponsored by Churchill Downs, and as judge of the Ohio State Awards. He covered the Democratic National Convention in New York City in 1980, the Republican National Convention in Detroit in 1980, the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988, and the Republican National Convention in New Orleans in 1988 for a syndicate of newspapers.
Dr. Kleine presented 23 papers, published 36 articles, and wrote and published 19 booklets during the period of 1967 through 2002. He has had photographs published in a variety of national magazines and text books. He has served as editor of the College Press Review, and contributing editor of Photolith Magazine. Dr. Kleine also served as national president of Alpha Phi Gamma national journalism honorary from 1971 to 1975.
While serving as dean, Dr. Kleine developed an exchange program with the Liaoning Institute of Technology in Jinzhou, China. Ultimately LIT was accorded university and LUT has become a valued sister school of EKU. Dr. Kleine and his wife Joan have served as the host family for more than 20 LUT students who have attended EKU. Dr. Kleine visited and lectured at LUT both as a faculty member in 2001 and again in retirement in 2007.
Dr. Kleine’s other international activities have included participation in a Media inspection and briefing by the Kentucky Air and Army National Guard in Panama and Ecuador in1997. He also participated in German American Journalism Educator Workshop - Berlin and Bonn - 1984.
In 2007 Dr. Kleine was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. He was recognized as “being instrumental in developing the Eastern Kentucky University ‘s journalism program.”
Dr. Kleine served as the president of the Eastern Kentucky University Retirees Association from 2007 to 2008, and continues to serve as the EKURA webmaster from 2008 2009 (see http://www.retirees.eku.edu/).
Dr. Glen Kleine may be contacted at 107 Frankie Drive, Richmond, KY 40475. He may be reached by phone at 859-623-3941 or by email at Kleine@ CHPL.NET |
