School of Communication Updates
| STUDENTS: Have questions about the new School of Communication? The Office of Academic Advising has put together some answers to your FAQs. |
Beta Rho Hosts Meet the Dean
November, 2008—Beta Rho, Loyola’s Communication Honor Society, hosted a open forum for students to Meet the Dean, on Wednesday, November 12 in the Terry Student Center on Water Tower Campus. The event gave communication, journalism and advertising/public relations students some insight about the new School of Communication from the new dean, Donald Heider, Ph.D.
Dean Heider, and Associate Dean Hannah Rockwell and Assistant Dean Shawna Cooper-Gibson introduced themselves to 50 plus students who attended, then opened the floor for questions. Questions ranged from the scope of the new facilities, courses and faculty to plans for the future.
Before the event Mari Grigaliunas, a reporter for the Phoenix asked Dean Heider some questions. Check out the story in the Loyola Phoenix.
Heider Named Dean of New School of Communication
Chicago, April, 2008—President Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. announced Tuesday that Donald Heider Ph.D., of the University of Maryland, had been appointed the first dean of Loyola University Chicago's School of Communication (SOC). Dr. Heider is an award-winning broadcast journalist and currently serves as associate dean at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, a position he has occupied since 2006.
New School Looks for a Founding Dean
Chicago, January, 2008—The Board of Trustees of Loyola University Chicago has just approved the first new school in 39 years—the School of Communication!
Our faculty and staff are excited about what this approval means for the Department of Communication in the next year—new faculty, new staff, a new building and a new dean.
The School of Communication will have its headquarters in The Clare, which is the new building under construction next to Lewis Towers and across from Baumhart Hall on the Water Tower Campus. Classrooms, facilities, faculty and administrative offices will be located on three floors at the base of The Clare, which opens in January 2009. The school's new state-of-the-art "convergence media lab" on the ground floor will support live studio production work for video, audio, and new media.
Our undergraduate majors in advertising and public relations, communication, and journalism provide the curricular base for the School of Communication. We will have additional new faculty and staff to offer these majors in '08-'09, and new curricular growth at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the future. The school will continue to provide curricular and facility support for the international film and media studies program and for WLUW.
If students have any questions about the School of Communication, please refer to our frequently asked questions. Or, ask a faculty member or your advisor in the Communication Department or contact our administrative offices.
—Elizabeth Coffman, Chair
