The federal Southeastern Area Interagency Incident Management Team that took command of Oregon's recent Black Crater Fire, a first-priority national emergency resulting in the evacuation of nearly 500 people near Sisters, Oregon, will join Tom Hagley, a veteran public relations practitioner, author, and instructor with more than 30 years experience, for a portion of a Crisis Communication workshop to be held at the UO School of Journalism and Communication’s George S. Turnbull Portland Center.

“It is very appropriate for the Turnbull Center to unite these participants to show off a model of extraordinary coordination, collaboration and cooperation,” Hagley says.

The Black Crater Fire will serve as one of many case studies Hagley has planned for the workshop, which is geared toward working communications professionals. Workshop participants will study various aspects of crisis communication in diverse case situations.

“Crisis Communication,” which will be offered Monday evenings beginning September 25, is the first of three Strategic Communication workshops to be offered during the 2006-07 school year at the Turnbull Center Center.

The other workshops include “Strategic Communications for Social Purposes Organizations,” taught by Jennifer Gilstrap Hearn, senior director at Portland’s Metropolitan Group; and “Creativity as a Professional Asset,” taught by the SOJC’s Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising, Deborah Morrison.

Workshops will be applicable to the professional master’s in strategic communications planned for fall 2007.  Classes run from

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For more information about the Turnbull Center, contact Yvonne Lewis, SOJC Executive Assistant, (503) 412-3662; ylewis@uoregon.edu