Betsy Bach is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Montana, where she has served on the faculty since 1983. From 1999-2005, she served in two administrative roles: Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management and Retention, and then as Interim Dean of the Davidson Honors College from 2003-2005, both at the University of Montana. She has been an adjunct faculty member at the Chalice of Repose Project at St. Patrick Hospital, where she offered communication courses to graduate students preparing to be music thanatologists — people who use song and harp to counsel the dying. She is a past president the National Communication Association and she has served as president of the Western States Communication Association. She specializes in organizational communication and her two major research areas are the mentoring and socialization of organizational newcomers. She received the University of Montana’s Distinguished Teacher Award in 1991 and the Master Teacher Award from the Western States Communication Association in 1992.