UIC Business Welcomes Dr. Jacob Matig to Professional Development and Communication Programs
About Jake Matig joining UIC Business
Jacob (Jake) Matig, Ph.D., has joined the UIC College of Business Administration’s Professional Development and Communication Programs as a Lecturer, teaching BA 200: Business Communication. He comes to UIC after nearly eight years at Miami University’s Farmer School of Business, where he advanced from Visiting Assistant Professor to Associate Teaching Professor. At Miami, he was recognized for both teaching and service, receiving Outstanding Professor (2026) and Honors Faculty of the Year (2024) awards, along with an Outstanding Friend of Advising award (2023) for his work as Assistant Director of the First Year Integrated Core.
Jake holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Kentucky, an M.A. from Northern Kentucky University, and a B.A. in English and Public Relations from Xavier University. Before entering academia, he spent more than a decade in healthcare communications and marketing at TriHealth, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas. That experience shapes his approach in the classroom, where students practice writing, speaking, and collaborating under conditions that mirror the workplaces they are heading into.
Jake’s research interests lie at the intersection of interpersonal communication, health communication, and persuasion. His work appears in Health Communication and the Journal of American College Health, and he contributed a chapter on temporal factors and resistance to The Handbook of Inoculation Theory and Practice (Wiley Blackwell, 2026).
Jake is looking forward to joining the UIC Business community and to teaching in a city where his students’ future employers are a short walk from campus.