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Abstract
Involvement in international and multicultural career-related practices is ever on the rise in a global economic and political society, especially in public relations. This article reported an update of examining the attributes of public relations educators and their institutions in teaching of international public relations (IPR) through an online survey. Results indicated some major improvements (i.e., a double increase of school offered and public relations educators taught IPR course, international perspectives shifted from service to teaching and research, and internationalization as institutional strategic focus). Recommendations for educators and their institutions to prepare themselves and offer the IPR course are discussed.
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Author Biography
Angela Mak is associate professor and head of public relations in the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. She previously taught at Monash University (Australia), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Iowa State University, and served as chair of Research Committee for the International Association of Business Communicators’ Research Foundation. She has taught more than a dozen of public relations and strategic communication courses and supervised a dozen of student-led nationwide campaigns with significant social impacts.
