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Feb08 — Dean Wright presents 2012 State of the College
Dean Wright updates the Gator Nation on the status of our new hub of innovative digital laboratories, as well as the College’s recent reaccreditation visit conducted by the national journalism and communications accrediting council.
Feb01 — Prominent Israeli journalist and author to speak at UF
Amira Hass, a prominent Israeli journalist and author mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha’aretz, will speak Monday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. at the MacKay Auditorium in Pugh Hall on the University of Florida campus.
Jan26 — Wright to step down as dean
Dear friends of the College of Journalism and Communications,
Please accept my sincere gratitude for all the positive thoughts, prayers and support sent my way during my illness. I am truly overwhelmed and you really did make a difference. I am making progress and anticipate returning to the College as early as next week.
I have other news I want to share with you. My contract as dean of the College of Journalism and Communications runs until January 2013. I want you to be among the first to know that I have submitted a letter to President Bernie Machen and Provost Joe Glover stating that I will return to fulltime faculty duties in the College in 2013 and will not seek reappointment as dean of the College. During the upcoming year the UF administration and College will conduct a search for a new dean.
I look forward to an extremely exciting final year as we continue to enhance our status as one of the elite journalism and communications programs in the world. I am so proud of our accomplishments! Innovative developments across all four departments, our master’s and doctoral programs integrated with exciting new endeavors in our media properties and distance education position us very well for even greater accomplishments in the next few years. You helped build this fine College and I will remain true to my promise to do everything I can to continue to make it better. This means, of course, doing everything I can to support the educational needs of our students and the teaching and research efforts of our faculty.
There are so many wonderful aspects about being dean of this great College, but getting to meet and visit with so many of you is truly among the most rewarding aspects of my entire career. Thank you so much for your support and friendship. As I have said many times, we could never have achieved the level of excellence we now occupy without your help.
I will miss being dean once 2013 arrives, but I look forward to many more years of rewarding experiences working at the University of Florida and I hope our friendship never fades. As always, please let me know if you are passing through Gainesville so we can say hello, and contact me whenever there is any way I can help you.
Thanks again for your wonderful support for me and for the College of Journalism and Communications.
John Wright
Dean and Professor
Jan20 — College launches professional master’s degree in multimedia journalism
The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will launch a professional master of arts degree in mass communication with an emphasis on multimedia journalism, with specializations for both telecommunication and journalism students beginning this summer.
The new degree program, slated to start in July with a summer boot camp, will emphasize multimedia reporting and news production and is geared for students aiming for careers in professional journalism.
Dec22 — College launches online master’s degree in global strategic communication
The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will launch a fully online, distance learning master of arts degree in mass communication with a specialization in global strategic communication in the summer of 2012.
Nov21 — Faculty participate in panel on furthering collaboration among health communication and health sciences researchers
Five faculty members and a doctoral student in the UF College of Journalism and Communications who specialize in health communication research and two of their UF&Shands collaborators present a panel discussion about communication research and how it can help advance translational science.
Nov21 — UF radio stations complete record-breaking membership campaign
Public radio stations Florida’s 89.1 WUFT-FM and WJUF-FM 90.1, part of the University of Florida, celebrated WUFT’s 30th anniversary by completing the most successful listener membership campaign in the history of the stations.
The fall fund drive, held Oct. 17-28, received 1,236 pledges totaling $161,664.50 – well above the stations’ goal of $135,000. The drive brought in 394 new donors, 341 renewals, 265 members who increased their original gift amount and 238 former members who are now public radio members once again.
Nov14 — Reubin Askew to reflect on his unique experience as Florida’s governor
Former Gov. Reubin Askew, the leader who guided Florida through the civil rights era into the modern age, will speak Nov. 14 at the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service in an exclusive session looking at his life and legacy.
Part of the “Next Florida” series which is being co-sponsored by the College of Journalism and Communications, the session will feature Askew drawing on his unique experience to look back as well as explain where the state is headed. This event, which will include video participation from other former Florida governors, begins at 6 p.m. at UF’s Pugh Hall (map).
Nov03 — College faculty participating in discussion on furthering collaboration among health communication and health sciences researchers
Five faculty members and a doctoral student in the UF College of Journalism and Communications who specialize in health communication research and two of their UF&Shands collaborators will present a panel discussion about communication research and how it can help advance translational science.
The seminar will be held Wednesday, Nov. 9, from noon – 1 p.m. in Room LG-110A/B of the McKnight Brain Institute.
Nov02 — Social media strategist to visit UF campus
The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will host Alison Byrne Fields, a nationally known strategist in the field of social media, on Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the 21st Century News Lab on the ground floor of Weimer Hall. Admission is free. Watch the archived recording.
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