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Notes
1 Letter, James Winans to Wayland Maxfield Parrish, 4 April 1934, ESCA papers, no. 1474, Box 1, folder 16, UUSC.
2 The second edition of the Handbook of Instructional Communication (2018) does not even meaningfully mention the connection between communication education and the subfield of instructional communication in the historical chapter or any other place in the book.
3 ICA established the Instructional and Developmental Division in 1972. NCA established the Instructional Development Division in 1978.
4 SSCA by-laws adopted from 1979 indicate the name of the division “shall be the Speech Education Interest Group, hereafter referred to as the SEIG” (Article I: Name, p. 1.).
5 Richmond and Frymier maintain that Communication Teacher was established in 1987 as an outlet for communication education scholarship; however, Communication Teacher has an 11 h index and a Q3 ranking, whereas Communication Education has a 66 h index and a Q1 ranking (see SCImago Research Group, Citation2023; Repiso & Delgado-López-Cózar, Citation2013).