Professor Glen Broom, Ph.D.
email: gbroom@mail.sdsu.edu
office: PSFA 305
phone: (619) 594-1007
office hours: posted each semester
Glen M. Broom is Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. He teaches full-time spring semesters.
Broom received B.S. ('63) and M.S. ('67) degrees from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He began his career there as assistant extension editor. His work included an assignment as radio consultant with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Amman, Jordan.
He moved to Chicago in 1968 to work full-time for a client of his fledgling public relations and advertising agency, Concept Productions. That work led to part ownership of the Chicago-based management consulting and training firm, Applied Behavioral Science, Inc., where he served as vice president and director of public relations. He left the company in 1972 to return to academe.
Dr. Broom earned his Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and joined the faculty in 1975 as head of the public relations sequence. He moved to San Diego State University in 1979 as head of the public relations emphasis, later serving as chair of the Department of Journalism. He taught as visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin during the 1985-86 academic year. During fall semesters, he serves as visiting professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and other universities in Australia .
He has written more than 35 scholarly articles and papers. In recognition of his research, the Institute for Public Relations Research and Education awarded Broom its 1986 "Pathfinder Award." He was selected as the outstanding journalism professor at San Diego State University in 1989. The Public Relations Society of America named him Outstanding Educator in 1991. In 1993 he was named outstanding professor and faculty commencement speaker for the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts at San Diego State University. Also in 1993, he received the Public Relations Society of America Foundation Jackson, Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize.
Dr. Broom co-authored the sixth through ninth editions of Effective Public Relations with Scott M. Cutlip and Allen H. Center. Broom and SDSU colleague David M. Dozier co-authored Using Research in Public Relations, also published by Prentice-Hall.
Courses Regularly Taught