Scott McLean is the Shadle-EdgeCombe Endowed Faculty Chair at Arizona Western College. He serves as the Professor of Speech Communication with an emphasis in Business Communication for a combined campus partnership with the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University-Yuma.
Scott is the author of "The Basics of Speech Communication" and "The Basics of Interpersonal Communication", both currently published by Allyn & Bacon.
Beyond his classroom experience, Scott regularly serves as a communications advisor to industry. He has extensive experience and publications in the areas of health communication, safe and healthy work environments, and organizational and crisis communication. He has served as an evaluator on the United States National Institutes of Health's Small Business and Innovative Research (SBIR) since 1995. He served as an evaluator of educational programs for the Ministerio de Hacienda de Chile.
Scott studied at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and at Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow School of Communication. He and his family divide their time between Yuma, Arizona and Puerto Montt, Chile.