SoJ Web Report | May 11, 2008

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The Indiana University School of Journalism gained re-accreditation during the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications’ meeting earlier this month.

At its May 2 meeting in Arlington, Va., the council made accreditation decisions for 21 schools and now accredits 112 in the United States and one outside the country. The council conducts voluntary reviews for schools with professional journalism and mass communications programs.

A team from ACEJMC visited the school last fall in preparation for making the decision to re-accredit. IU’s journalism program has been accredited since 1948.

The School of Journalism was among 10 undergraduate programs to gain re-accreditation. Two schools were accredited for the first time, one was denied accreditation, three received provisional accreditation and three moved from provisional to accreditation status.

The council also elected three new members and re-elected one member. Pam Luecke, Donald W. Reynolds professor of business journalism for the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Washington and Lee University, was elected chair of the accrediting committee.

Here’s the list of actions:

Initial accreditation
  • Department of Communication and Journalism, University of New Mexico
  • Department of Communication, Jacksonville (Ala.) State University
Re-accreditation after removal of provisional re-accreditation
  • Department of Communication and Journalism, Auburn University
  • Division of Journalism, Florida A&M University
  • Department of Journalism, New York University
  • Department of Mass Communications, Southern University
Provisional accreditation
  • Communication Department, Buffalo State University
Provisional re-accreditation
  • School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  • Department of Journalism, San Francisco State University
  • Department of Journalism, Temple University
Denied accreditation
  • Department of Mass Communications, Winston-Salem State University
Re-accreditation
  • Department of Journalism and Public Communications, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations, Hofstra University
  • Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno
  • School of Journalism and Broadcasting, Oklahoma State University
  • School of Journalism and Mass Communications (undergraduate and graduate), San Jose
  • State University
  • Department of Communication, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
  • Department of Communications, University of Tennessee, Martin
  • School of Journalism, Indiana University
  • A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State University
  • School of Journalism, Michigan State University
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