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One of his daughters, Lynda L. McCroskey, who completed her doctorate at the University of Oklahoma,currently is a tenured associate professor teaching communication at California State University,Long Beach.About the Editors of this ProgramSherwyn Morreale is now a faculty member in the Communication Department at University ofColorado, Colorado Springs, and is engaged in research and teaching in organizational communication,communication theory, instructional communication, public speaking, and the assessment ofcommunication competence. Her undergraduate and master’s degrees in communication are from theUniversity of Colorado and her doctorate is from the University of Denver. Recently, and for eightyears, she served as Associate Director of External Affairs for the National Communication Association(NCA), the oldest and largest association of professors in the communication discipline in theworld. In her position at NCA, she was responsible for communication instruction and research initiativesand outreach on behalf of the communication discipline to funding agencies, policy-makers, andother private and public audiences. She is the author of two communication textbooks and numerousmonographs and articles in academic journals.Shawn Morgan is an instructor in the Communication Department at University of Colorado, ColoradoSprings, and now is teaching creative communication, persuasion, oral communication in theworkplace, and in the past has taught family and interpersonal communication. He holds an undergraduateand master’s degree from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is responsible forfacilitating the development of the Web-based versions of the assessment instruments contained in thisprogram. Shawn Morgan acknowledges the contributions to the development process of Craig Decker,Kirk Moore, and Ankur Patwa.NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION1765 N Street, NWWashington, D.C., 20036Assessing Motivation to Communicate 29