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JMC Student Voice Team Launches; Self-Nominations Encouraged
The faculty-led Diversity and Globalization Committee will form a student advisory board, the Student Voice Team (SVT), in early November to help advance JMCās diversity and globalization goals and to ensure that student views and concerns are heard. SVT members will include representatives from ā¦
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Distinguished Alumni, Friends Honored At JMCās Annual Award Ceremony
JMC celebrated the outstanding achievements of five alumni and one extraordinary āfriendā at its annual Alumni Awards and Friends Reception and Ceremony on October 4. JMC alumni, faculty, staff, students, as well as family, friends and colleagues of the award recipients, were on hand for the eveningā¦
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New Honors Course Helps Students be Smarter Than Their Smartphones
Undergraduate students across campus can now learn about the technology that has made smart phones such a success in a new course titled āBe Smarter Than Your Phone.ā John West, trustees research professor in Ā鶹¹ū¶³ās Liquid Crystal Institute created the course based on his career ā¦
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Faculty Exhibition Chronicles Public School Desegregation in Leon County, Florida
When journalism professor Ann Schierhorn was a high school student at Florida State University School in 1966, she knew she was witnessing a story that needed to be told. Her classmates Keith Neyland and Mahlon C. Rhaney, Jr. were the first African American students to desegregate theā¦
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Brazilian Student Journalists Visit Kent State, JMC
A group of Brazilian students from Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR) are visiting Ā鶹¹ū¶³ this month to work on multimedia storytelling projects focused on American media and culture. JMC assistant professorMitch McKenney is helping Brazilian professors orgaā¦
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Kent State Student Project on Suicide Prevention Earns Innovator of the Year Award
Online platform offers a comprehensive look at college suicide and aims to eliminate stigma surrounding mental illness September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Students from Ā鶹¹ū¶³ās School of Journalism and Mass Communication and School of Digital Sciences won the Associatedā¦
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Student Broadcasters Earn More National Recognition
When it comes to collegiate electronic media recognition, JMC students and independent Student Media are on a roll. College Broadcasters, Inc. (CBI) has announced its 2013 Student Production Awards finalists, and TV2 is nominated in two categories: Best Sports Sportscast for "Sports Corner" and Bā¦
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TV2 Scores Four Finalist Nods In College Media Competition
The College Media Association (CMA) announced the finalists for the 2013 Pinnacle Awards, and TV2 KSU is included in four categories: Best Television Newscast, for the March 2013 broadcast that featured breaking news of a United States Senate vote to prevent the shutdown of the Federā¦
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Summer Commencement Makes History
Summer commencement marks two significant milestones for our School: This is the largest group of masterās students ever to graduate from JMC, and this is the first time more graduate students than undergraduate students will receive diplomas. "This summer's graduating class of masterāā¦
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LaBelle Photographs to Be Featured 'Above The Fold'
The photographs of Dave LaBelle, director of photojournalism at JMC, will be featured in āAbove the Fold: The Photographers of the The Chanute Tribune,ā an exhibit at The Chanute Art Gallery in Chanute, Kansas. The exhibit runs from September 3 through September 28. The show will draw frā¦
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