Jim McNabb, an adjunct professor at St. Edward’s University since 2010, teaches “Presentational Speaking”, or public speaking, with an emphasis on “real world” applications. He was also a Lecturer in the Journalism Department at Texas State University (then Southwest Texas State)
Jim McNabb was the "Outstanding Communications Adjunct Professor of the year for 2014-15. Nominated by Humanities for a Distinguished Teaching Award for Adjuncts, 2015-16. He was selected as a presenter in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018 during the annual St. Edward’s University Center for Teaching Excellence Symposium for various innovative teaching methods and research. He also has been a judge for Bowles Persuasive Speaking contest, 2013-2018.
In the "real world" of communications for more than 30 years, McNabb was a TV news managing editor, talent, reporter, and photographer as well as a radio news director twice.
He is married to an Austin public school librarian. He has one son and two granddaughters. A born and raised Texan, McNabb grew up in Dallas.
He is also a church deacon and an ordained and licensed chaplain to communicators.
Further, he's a singer/songwriter with eight albums.
"It's All About the Audience"
MA in Radio, TV and Film from The University of Texas at Austin.
BA in oral communications from Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
Students are expected to craft and deliver presentations on a variety of subjects. My mantras are "Familiarize, Don't Memorize", "Content is King", and "It's Always About the Audience". Successful students write compelling scripts with strong sources and stories. These become speeches spoken with confidence and style. The only ways to pull this off is through research, composition, and practices.
Practice! Practice solves lots of problems.
I'm passionate about communication and all levels, but the most important communication is face to face sharing of information, ideas, and truth. I am still idealistic enough to believe that peace is achieved through communication. This peace is personal and beyond.