Dr. Ted D. Colson
Professor Emeritus

BA Drury College / MA University of Oklahoma
Ph.D. University of Oklahoma

Personal Bio:  
Professor Colson joined the UNT faculty in 1956. He started the radio-television-film department and was chiefly responsible for the establishment of the campus radio station, KNTU. He later left the broadcast area and, after receiving his Ph.D. in Performance Studies, he built one of the largest curriculum in that discipline in the country -- the most extensive for an MA degree.

 
Notable Activities:
He is past president of the Texas Speech Association. During his tenure in that position he established the Texas Speech Communication Journal and is a past chairman of the Southern States Communication Journal and is a past chairman of the Performance Studies Division of the American Communication Association. In that position he organized the first "Salado" conference and edited the proceedings of that conference, Renewal and Revision: The Future of Interpretation.

He is the recipient of the UNT Student Association's "Honor Professor" Award and the UNT Faculty Senate's "Shelton Excellence in Teaching" award. After his retirement he was designated an "Honorary Alumnus" of the University of North Texas.

He is active in the national storytelling movement. He is co-founder of what is now the Tejas Storytelling Association, which sponsors the annual Texas Storytelling Festival -- one of the largest festivals in the country. He is a recipient of the "John Henry Faulk Award," for his contribution to the art of storytelling in the Southwest