From the Editors: A Remembrance and Dedication (original) (raw)

2015, Academy of Management Learning & Education

In the months after I received the wonderful news that I was going to become the editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education, my world turned upside down. My husband, Doug Trank, began end-of-life care. He died in October. I wanted to share this not to begin my first issue as editor on a dark note, but a hopeful one. Doug was an educator at heart. He started teaching at a public school in Ogallala Nebraska, and ended his career with a triple faculty appointment at The University of Iowa-in Rhetoric (where he retired as department chair), Communication Studies, and Curriculum and Instruction. When news of his death hit the Internet, I was flooded with notes and calls from his former students and colleagues. Most of them were very personal, and contained some version of the words, "If it weren't for Doug. . ." Others noted his contributions to scholarship and practice in teacher training at universities as well as his advocacy for the centrality of communication, speech, and theater to education at the K-12 level. As I considered the outpouring of affection and admiration, it struck me that both were connected to his passion for his discipline and for education. With this introduction, I extend a particular invitation to scholars across the management and organization disciplines to bring their own disciplinary passion into the education conversation. AMLE is a journal of the Academy of Management; its domain is ours as well. Thankfully, in the Academy we rarely share the same views of the world, but we research, argue, advocate, and critique with a view to making things better. And so it is with AMLE, as I join my predecessors, Ken Brown, Ben Arbaugh, James Bailey, and Roy Lewicki, who started and sustained this journal over more than 10 years with a commitment to make sure the many voices have a forum. As I join them, however, it is worth remembering that AMLE is not a niche journal, but one that can serve all management disciplines as a resource and as a place to publish their work.