Ricky Telg, professor in the University of Florida’s Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, teaches courses in agricultural communication and instructional technologies – such as Web design and nonlinear video editing – as well as courses in news writing and distance education. Before joining UF in 1995, he was a newspaper reporter and editor, a television reporter and producer, and a radio announcer.

Telg has taken leadership roles in several national organizations, including the National Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow, where he served as National ACT advisor for five years, and the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE), where he has served as state representative, Southern Region director, and Academic Programs chair. Telg also is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Communications. He serves as executive treasurer for the Agricultural Communications Section of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists.

Telg has received UF’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences’ Undergraduate Advisor of the Year and Undergraduate Teacher of the Year awards, as well as being selected as a 2001 NACTA (North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture) Teacher Fellow. Telg has numerous paper presentations at regional, national, and international meetings and article publications on distance education- and agricultural communication-related topics. He received a U.S. Department of Agriculture Challenge Grant to lead five other universities in the development of a national training program for distance education instructional designers. Telg and his wife Jodie have two teenage children.

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