E-ALERT
- FEBRUARY 2005
Accreditation report lauds J-School faculty,
students and leadership
A team of journalism and mass communication educators and
media
Professionals has recommended re-accreditation for the School
of Journalism
and Mass Communications. The team found the School in compliance
with all 12
standards--governance, budget, curriculum, advising, instruction,
faculty,
internships, facilities, research, public service, alumni
and diversity--and
recommended compliance for the School's professional master's
program. The
report will go to the Accrediting Committee, and the Accrediting
Council on
Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC)
for a final
accreditation decision in May. ACEJMC currently accredits
104 programs in
journalism and mass communications at U.S. colleges and universities
and one
at a university outside the country. The School of Journalism and Mass Communications was first
accredited in
1954 and has been consistently re-accredited every six-year
interval
for the past 50 years. In its report, the team cited as strengths
of the
program School and College leadership, a strong emphasis
on teaching and
student-centered faculty, excellent student services including
advising,
outstanding service to the professional community, as well
as one of the
best scholastic journalism programs in the nation, a solid
curriculum
with excellent 12-credit "senior semester" for
print and electronic
sequences, and visibility of the program both on campus and
nationally.
The team also recommended that the unit strengthen diversity
among
Undergraduate students, research and scholarly productivity,
and tenure
and promotion guidelines for professional track faculty.
This
just in...
December journalism graduate Kent Babb has won first place
in the Hearst
competition for sports writing. He’ll compete in the
national finals.
There’s more about Kent in the iSITE section of the
School’s
Web page: Read
it>>
American Advertising Federation honors
SJMC students
Camea Gilyard, advertising senior, has been named by
the American
advertising Federation as one of the Most Promising Minority
Students in the
nation. Additionally, Danielle Washington, advertising senior,
has been
named to AAF’s national honor roll. Both students were
acknowledged for
their accomplishments during a two and a half day program
at the New York
Athletic Club on February 8-10 in New York City. AAF’s
Most Promising
Minority program was filled with opportunities for the students
to network,
interview and be honored by some of the top advertising agencies,
media
companies and advertisers in the country. USC is the only
program in the
nation, other than Howard University, to have a student win
this honor every
year since it began in 1997.
USC remembers Robert "Bob" Jones
Robert “Bob” Jones, a respected and beloved
former faculty member of the
School of Journalism and Mass Communications, died February
8, 2005. Bob’s
contributions to journalism education and to the USC School
of Journalism
and Mass Communications were many. He spent most of his career at the University of Minnesota,
where he served
as director of the School of Journalism for more than 20
years. He was one
of the best known, and most highly regarded, journalism educators
in the
country. He served as president of the AEJMC, the old AASDJ,
and various
other national organizations, and headed the Hearst Foundation
steering
committee for many years.
After he "retired" at Minnesota, his old friend
Joe Shoquist, former dean at
the University of South Carolina, persuaded him to join his
faculty. He
worked mostly with graduate students and, in fact, served
as Director of
Graduate Studies for several years. He held the McKissick
chair in the
School from 1986 to 1993. Bob loved his students and was
beloved by them. He
will be dearly missed.
Coming soon...
Details on our April celebration of I-Comm Week 2005.
Charles Bierbauer
Dean, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies
Dr. Shirley Staples Carter
Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communications |
