{"id":1596,"date":"2001-01-01T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www4.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:03:07","slug":"dr-joseph-ashcroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/dr-joseph-ashcroft\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Professor &#8211; Dr. Joseph Ashcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ashcroft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1634\" title=\"ashcroft\" src=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ashcroft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>East Stroudsburg University bestows its highest faculty honor, the Distinguished Professor Award, upon Dr. Joseph Ashcroft for his scholarly achievements in the field of communication studies and media ecology and for his active participation and leadership role in discussion and debates about university initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ashcroft has multiple scholarly presentations at national and international conferences as well as publications, including over fifteen published book reviews in the journal\u00a0<em>Best Sellers<\/em>.\u00a0 His scholarly work builds on the insights of Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman and focuses on the effects that various forms of media have on human consciousness and culture.\u00a0 His commitment to learning and keeping current with developments in his field is laudable.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ashcroft has been an active participant in university-wide discussions and faculty meetings at ESU for over thirty years.\u00a0 He provides thoughtful commentary, offers critical analyses, and willingly engages in work that helps shape the future of ESU.\u00a0He has served as department chair of two distinct departments:\u00a0 the Department of Counseling and Educational Opportunity and the Communication Studies department.\u00a0 His colleagues respect him for his love of ideas, ability to advance political debates, and leadership role in pertinent discussions about university issues.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ashcroft received his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Scranton, his M.A. in Political Science from East Stroudsburg University, and his Ph.D. in Media Ecology from New York University.\u00a0 He was initially appointed to the faculty at ESU as the Assistant Director of Upward Bound. In 1984 he\u00a0joined the faculty of the\u00a0Department of Communication Studies where he has been an inspiration to students and a model for involvement in campus life.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ashcroft retired from ESU in 2013 and was awarded Professor Emeritus status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University bestows its highest faculty honor, the Distinguished Professor Award, upon Dr. Joseph Ashcroft for his scholarly achievements in the field of communication studies and media ecology and for his active participation and leadership role in discussion and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication-studies","category-distinguished-professors","tag-dr-ashcroft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}