Purpose
The Pennsylvania Communication Association (PCA) promotes teaching, scholarship, service, and an ongoing commitment to the discipline of human communication.

The Association believes in:
Teaching
Advancing and developing communication curricula
Responding to student and societal needs
Attending to and caring for the student inside and outside of the communication classroom
Scholarship
Promoting communication scholarship within the Keystone State
Providing a disciplinary commitment to Pennsylvania scholars, reaching out to the larger discipline
Being a dwelling place of Pennsylvania communication scholarship history
Service
Connecting the larger community to the communication discipline
Supporting efforts to professionalize students in communication fields
Serving our students inside and outside of formal institutional structures
Commitment to the Discipline
Nurturing the grassroots application of communication in the wider community
Caring for the discipline on the local academic campus
Supporting the larger discipline at the regional, national, and international levels
The Organization
The Pennsylvania Communication Association was originally founded as the Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania (SCAP) in 1939.  Its current title, the Pennsylvania Communication Association (PCA), commenced in 2003. 
PCA'S ANNUAL AWARDS
BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP

• Statewide network of teachers and practitioners committed to teaching excellence in communication
• The PCA Annual, a scholarly journal
• The PCA Newsletter
• Annual convention held in the fall with workshops and programs in a variety of interest areas
• Awards recognizing outstanding work in the profession

PCA BY LAWS ARE AVAILABLE VIA PDF DOCUMENT WHICH CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

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Updated February 29, 2008