SoJ Web Report | May 11, 2008
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Newly accredited schools were the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico and the Department of Communication at Jacksonville (Ala.) State University.
The council elected three new members and re-elected one member to three-year terms on its accrediting committee. David Boardman, editor of the Seattle Times, was re-elected. Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University; Phil Dixon, chair of the journalism department at Howard University; and John Cochran, senior Washington correspondent for ABC News, were elected new committee members.
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. Carla Lloyd, associate dean of scholarly and creative activity for the School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, was elected committee vice chair.
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.
The following schools received provisional re-accreditation in 2006 for their undergraduate programs and were granted full re-accreditation: the Department of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University; the Division of Journalism at Florida A&M University; the Department of Journalism at New York University; and the Department of Mass Communications at Southern University.
The following schools received provisional re-accreditation for the undergraduate programs: the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; the Department of Journalism at San Francisco State University; and the Department of Journalism at Temple University. The council grants provisional status when it identifies weaknesses that can be corrected within two years.
The undergraduate communication department at Buffalo State University received provisional accreditation.
The Department of Mass Communications at Winston-Salem State University was denied accreditation. In 2006, the department received provisional initial accreditation, but was denied at the revisit this year.
The council also re-accredited the following undergraduate programs at 10 schools: the Department of Journalism and Public Communications at the University of Alaska Anchorage; the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations at Hofstra University; the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno; the School of Journalism and Broadcasting at Oklahoma State University; the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University; the Department of Communication at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; the Department of Communications at the University of Tennessee, Martin; the School of Journalism at Indiana University; the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University; and the School of Journalism at Michigan State University.
The graduate program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University also received re-accreditation.
The council’s fall meeting will be Friday, Aug. 29, in Chicago at the Westin Hotel on Michigan Avenue. Anyone wanting additional information about council activities may contact Susanne Shaw, ACEJMC executive director, Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. Telephone: (785)864-3986. E-mail: sshaw@ku.edu.
