Howard University School of Communications
The Howard University School of Communications has four departments offering undergraduate degrees. The Departments of Communication and Culture, Journalism, and Radio-Television-Film offer the Bachelor of Arts degree in ten specializations. The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers the Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Pathology/Audiology. All departments offer 18-hour minor sequences.[1]
in 2013, Gracie Lawson-Borders, a former reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune and Akron Beacon Journal, was named Dean, effective July 1. She replaces Jannette L. Dates.[2] She is the former associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming, where she also was professor of communication and journalism and director of the African American and Diaspora Studies program.[3]
Howard University owns and operates WHUR-FM 96.3 FM and WHUT-TV. The two media stations serve as training centers for students pursuing communication degrees and careers.
John H. Johnson
In 2003, publisher John H. Johnson pledged $4 million with "the hope that his donation would someday be used as a down payment toward the construction of a new building that would house the communications school that had been renamed that year in his honor."[4]
In 2010, his name was dropped from the school "and the university is still many years away from breaking ground on a new building that was initially slated to cost $250 million and was supposed to be completed several years ago."[5]
References
- ↑ communications.howard.edu
- ↑ Howard University gets new dean of communications
- ↑ Gracie Lawson-Borders Named Dean of the School of Communications at Howard University
- ↑ Howard University Attempting to Re-establish Ties to Late John H. Johnson
- ↑ Howard University Attempting to Re-establish Ties to Late John H. Johnson