So I want to officially welcome all of you to our first virtual college fair for the journalism Association of Community Colleges, thank you so much to the college reps who are here, we really appreciate you. And we're thrilled to have some additional feedback and insight from all of you during this really stressful time of the year for our transfer minded students. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for giving us part of the evening tonight.
Such a great from San Jose State University. And basically, we're going to talk a little bit primarily about our journalism program, although we do have, we do have PR and advertising. We have great opportunities for you to start your stuff in our student media, and I hope this advances here. Okay, can you see where it's a Spartan Daily, I cannot see what you guys are seeing, okay. We have the Spartan Daily, which is our student newspaper, we have update news, which is our TV broadcast, we have access magazine, which is our feature magazine, and we have the spear, which is our sports publication. And you guys might wonder, and I don't know, we don't have representatives from Stanford, or USC or UCLA here. Why in the world, you know, why wouldn't you just go to USC or Stanford or whatever? Well, just so you know, some of your state schools, and not just us, but some of your state schools are doing some pretty big things. For example, just three weeks ago, the Spartan Daily our student newspaper, won the national associated collegiate press pacemaker Award, which basically groups you in the best in the nation. Before that, in 2021, we won the ACP Pinnacle Award for best college newspaper in the country, we won the Best of Show award, the National ACP convention twice. And before that, we established ourselves as a major publication here in the state, we have actually won the cnpa best newspaper in California and our division three out of the last four years. And we've also won from CCMA. So So yeah, I mean, we have a lot to be proud about. In the last seven years, we have won 48 national awards, and 131 statewide awards, right. So yeah, we're a little proud of this. So we want to show a few examples of the kinds of things that we've been able to do. Now we have, you know, offered opportunities for great graphics, but we've really specialized in things like investigative reporting, in serious reporting, what you're seeing here are some examples of some of our award winning material. This is real, genuine, professional reporting. This right here led to an investigation by the US Justice Department, what you're seeing now led to our first national award, during Black Lives Matter, we had a particular case tied into our university that dealt with a lot of protests and things like that. It teaches our students not to be afraid to do real reporting. This example from a few years back, showed that our university was misusing millions of dollars in, in scholarship money. And basically, you can see it led to the resignation of our university president, which is quite the thing. But we also focus on sort of smaller issues that deal with how students, you know, genuinely are dealing with all these things. And ultimately, you know, it's served us pretty well. Yeah, those that's some of our crew, right there with some of the awards that we won. And by the way, in case that's not enough, we've won 13 Pulitzer Prizes, or our alums have, you will note the last one Marcio Sanchez, just one two years ago for his coverage of Black Lives Matter. So that's the Spartan Daily update news is our TV news broadcasts that is aired throughout the San Francisco Bay area. Most notably, we have an absolute state of the art digital 4k production facility, we got a grant spent $800,000 and got that going. Our instructors, both of our main instructors, or any winning broadcasters, every student learns video shooting, editing, production, the whole nine yards, you gain experience, not just behind the camera, but also in front. You've graduated with a whole bunch of important skills. And we have people working nationwide worldwide. And of course, this is our digital production facility. That's our professor Diane Ferrazzi, who's showing basically it's behind the scenes. That's our students on the set with with all the digital graphics turned on. This is what it looks like when it's not turned on. So I'll show you a few examples of video. This is the intro to Eight news that we put together with some students in digital animation from our program. So it looks pretty slick, it looks very much like a professional broadcast. And you will see our students are out there anchoring the broadcast, they're learning how to do that. They are going out in the field. And sure there's a certain amount of reporting that happens on campus, as you'll see here in just a moment. You know, you have on campus reporting, but you're also covering all things, all sorts of things going on in the community, you're covering, you know, you're interviewing students, you're seeing what's going on in terms of clubs and things like that. But you're also covering Real News. This was basically there was a report of gunshots here locally, we went out and covered it, just like every other news organization. And Adam Yoshikawa here, who's just an undergraduate student is on the scene reporting. And these clips go a long way to get me hired. Okay, we'll quickly go through access magazine, which is our feature magazine covers a huge variety of stuff. It's been named the best student magazine in California twice the last five years, we like to say stunning visuals and stimulating content, right? Everything you see in the magazine is done by students even selling the ads. It's a great venue to show off not just your writing, but visuals. You can do all kinds of innovative stuff and provides lots of great clips. So again, show you some examples. This is some cover art. From the past few examples. This story right here won first place best in California a couple of years ago. This is a student in Malaysia who during COVID had to take all of her classes in the middle of the night because she went home. This covered just one best magazine cover in America, in Atlanta. But you can see you can present your material in all kinds of different ways that's not just good for storytelling, but visual stimulus. This is an award winning set of photos from a shooter who used a drone to get interesting photos, you can take advantage of the magazine layout to do really interesting examples of of presentation. This is one of the covers that of our magazine, the one best in the state, you can see, you know, we have the opportunity in the newspaper to tell stories in one way and in the magazines to tell them a different way. And last but not least, we have the spear which is the CSU is preeminent sports media platform that we have a whole sports media concentration here. We have a magazine is published multiple times per semester, we have a website and social media that get updated all the time. We have a print magazine, we have video, we have podcasts, we cover men's sports, we cover women's sports, give you a great venue to really show what you can do. So you can see you know, we have the covers, which are great. But we also dig in in terms of stories. This is an important story that won us some awards tied into a history of activism and sports. That's our website where they cover day to day things. If you're a photographer, this is a fantastic venue to show how you can shoot action photography, the layouts are very, very interesting. As I said, we cover women's sports just as well as men's, it's good opportunity for for everyone to get in there. It's not all football, it's not all basketball, we do feature these things. But this has been very, very popular. There's really no other venue like it throughout the rest of the CES us. So you can see in the summary. We have student media outlets that give you plenty of opportunities to strut your stuff and win national awards, regional awards, newspaper, TV, magazines, podcasts, social media, we kind of got all of that stuff. We have faculty with lots of professional experience connections. We have great facilities, thanks to these grants that we've gotten successful alumni, including one of the other instructors in here, from around the nation around the world. And by the way, we're a lot cheaper than USC, Stanford and all that stuff. And for those of you that don't know, we're just 40 miles south of San Francisco. So there's plenty going on here. So what's not to like? That's the question. This is my contact information, just in case anybody needs to get in touch with me. I also put it in the chat. I meant to do that before I started talking. But yeah, Prof. Craig profit craig.com you can always contact me there. So was that more than five minutes?
I don't think so. You're fine. Oh, great. I get carried away. Appreciate it. Yeah. Richard, thank you so much for sharing.
Dr. Walid Rashidi in our program absolutely put this together. He had a schedule conflict and couldn't make it tonight. So I am essentially putting delivering his presentation. I'm I'm also going to focus More on the journalism concentration. That's where I teach. I'm new this semester, our newly the advisor of daily Titan, which is the editorially independent student newspaper here at Cal State Fullerton. And this is some information about our Communications major. First I'll start a little bit about Cal State Fullerton. By enrollment. We are actually the largest Cal State University we have 41,000 students. We are a lot of our students are part time commuters though. So bureaucratically, we're not actually the largest, but in terms of how many students we are. We are the only college of communications in the Cal State system. And we have four communications disciplines within our college. We are at Department of Communications where I reside, but we also have Cinema and Television Arts. We have human communications, and we have communication sciences and disorders department. Within the communications department, we have four undergraduate concentrations. In addition to that we also have a master's program we have a journalism concentration, public relations, entertainment and tourism, communications and advertising. And we are also in a great location, only seven miles from Disneyland a half hour train ride to downtown LA. And foreign 10 itself is a really nice kind of a mixture between a railroad suburb and college town environment. A little bit so we are a very transfer heavy school. Mo by far, most of our students are juniors and seniors, and probably about half of half of those students transferred from a community college so you as a community college transfer will feel right at home here. A little bit about the department itself, the department is more than 60 years old. By student enrollment. We are the largest mass communications program in the Western United States, at least in terms of undergraduate enrollment. We're located in the second largest media market in Southern California. And then we have about 25,000 C issue of college graduates. So a really big alumni network. All four of our concentrations have hands on experience, in addition to the concentrations and a Comm major. We also have several certificate programs. We have a photo communications, Digital Media Communications, and we are about to launch a new sports communication certificate. Most of our faculty have professional experience in industry connections, and we have a very comprehensive internship program. I'll talk about journalism. We, you will learn relevant hands on skills you'll engage doesn't matter what specialty you choose, you will learn how to tell stories in every platform and print online, social media, video and audio. We list some of the activities I actually have a Dr. Rashidi created a separate slide, but I will mention there's also clubs. There's a very small Society of Professional Journalists chapter. We have new National Association of Black Journalists and Asian American journalists Association. And we have one of the largest na HJ chapters are Latino journalists, CSU F chapter on public relations, public relations has its own activities. You can we have calm week, we have our own student agency, students get involved in programs that support and promote the Newport Beach Film Festival. And we also have one of the largest chapters of the Public Relations Student Society of America. I mentioned that we're close to Disneyland. We're close to the entertainment industry. So one of the things that's unique about our department is that we also have an entertainment and tourism communications concentration. And then we also have a very strong advertising concentration. The advertising concentration, also participates in the student agency creates campaigns for National Student advertising competition, and has a very large we have a very large ad club organization, our student media opportunities. One of them is our dia aldea is one of the first Spanish language newscasts on a college campus. ivies, daily Titan daily Titan is is also 60 years old. It's a weekly print newspaper and publishes Daily Online. And on social media, we have our OC news flagship broadcast, which is produced weekly. We have Tusk magazine, Titan radio, and Titan sports, which is a weekly sports broadcast. The general adjure address is calm department D pt@fullerton.edu. You can also follow us on Instagram and other social media at CSU F. Co MMDPT. And I will actually put my email address in the chat. So please feel free if you have any questions about Cal State Fullerton.
So I'm Miles Corwin. I'm a professor at UC Irvine. And we are we are the only university of California campus to offer an undergraduate journalism major. And we're the only program in the country to offer an undergraduate undergraduate degree in literary journalism. And I was a community college student many years ago and this would have been an ideal program for me had it existed at the time. And our major was created to meet the needs of a growing number of students who really want to read, study and write nonfiction prose that transcends the limits of daily journalism. So we're a little different. We're not a traditional journalism program, our program emphasizes more kind of long form, nonfiction writing and feature writing. The program provides majors with a solid foundation both in reporting and nonfiction writing, while also introducing students to the ever evolving world of digital storytelling. We have classes in digital storytelling, we have classes in podcasting, and courses of that nature. And most of our students obtain practical experience beyond the classroom through internships at radio and TV stations, online publications, newspapers and magazines. Our majors take a number of literary journalism courses, as well as three intensive writing workshops. And these intensive writing workshops are really the foundation of our program. They're no more than 15 students in each workshop and these in our major sort of a almost a college within the college because you get to know the professor's really well in these in these small workshops. And you work very closely with the professors. In our we have a staff of about five professors. We've got several Pulitzer Prize winners in our staff National Book Award, a National Book Award winners all of us have written a number of books, most of them have been bestsellers or or award winning books. The students are expected to develop a portfolio of work by graduation that they can prep presented as an evidence of their skill for purposes of employment, or going to grad school. These workshops include feature writing and narrative in the digital age, the art of reconstruction, writing, often news magazine, storytelling, community reporting, narrative writing and personal essay. In many other majors in UC Irvine, the professor's lecture and the students take notes. And the professors do these sort of remote figures who make pronouncements from above you hand in your papers and they hand it back with a grade and submitted and remarks. The only time they'll talk to you is during office hours. You know, our lunch day workshops, as I said, are small. They're very intimate. And it's a really collaborative writer editor relationship, a lot of one on one meetings, discussing every element of the stories. Some of our graduates have obtained journalism, jobs and publications including the LA Times Orange County Register San Francisco Chronicle, Visalia, Visalia, times delta, Esquire magazine and online sites, including Real Clear Politics, the Atavist Zocalo Zocalo public fair squares in a number of online sites focusing on soccer, football, and baseball. A number of other students have taken positions in communications or public relations for corporations or nonprofits. We've also been successful at placing our majors in some of the premier grad schools in journalism, including Columbia, Northwestern UC Berkeley University of Missouri, where I attended them students have told us that the writing and reporting and research skills and honed at UC Irvine enable them to see succeed and other careers including public relations, teaching real estate, educational testing and publishing. I'd like to emphasize that our program prepares students for all kinds of endeavors it journalism but also in many other fields. And the experience and skill they get in our Lecce program trains them in how to push beyond their own world gather information, make sense of things and deliver a coherent, compelling report. And this last piece deliver a coherent report makes elderberry majors and valuable because good writing is absolutely necessary. In every field. We have a student publication, the new University, and a number of internship opportunities. I'm going to put my contact information and the contact information for our Associate Director in the chat. Thank you. Yeah, so
I am the Department Chair, and Cal State Chico. And you know, our program is a little bit different probably than the other ones here tonight, in that we are probably the I guess sounds like the furthest north and the most rural campus, we are kind of a mix of being getting to enjoy all the benefits of being part of a small, more rural community, we're five minutes from hiking and upper Park. You know, we're close to the mountains. But the really, there's a strong sense of community, a really vibrant culture around restaurants and small business, a lot of creative and makerspaces here in town. So a lot going on up here, even though we are somewhat far north a couple hours north of Sacramento. So that's sh Chico. So Chico State is now about 14,000 students, so smaller campus than the other programs here tonight. But we think you know, one of part of our appeal is for those who perhaps like a little bit slower pace, who liked the idea that the walking campus, we have the creek that that runs through that we love and enjoy. And I think there's a really nice sense of community here on the campus and connection between faculty. And, of course, our students, which I know is important to, I'm sure everyone here. So you can just see there's a little bit about a little picture of the campus there. For our program. We are a, you know, journalism and public relations programs. So it's a 40 unit 40 unit major with an option in news or public relations. And, you know, campuses all sort of organize these related fields differently. at Chico State. We also in our college, have a Media Arts and Technology program that houses the broadcasting program as well as student radio program. And then we also have a Communication Studies program that is part of the college that has more traditional human communication, organizational communication. And so there's a lot of fun, I think opportunities for our students to find really what the right thing is for them as they move through the program. Obviously, we're partial, and we love the news and PR side. So a smaller number of faculty, but also really small class sizes. And we also the faculty here have professional experience. But we also have two professional in in residence, one that is focused on the public relations size. And once that is our news professional in residence. And they work of course closely with the intern opportunities in both of those. One of the other things I'll talk a little bit about is we love that we have dedicated space for our student newspaper, and then also for our student manage PR agency. And we've got a newer programs going for about five years. That is our immersive media program. And I'll talk a little bit about that. So I'm already at three minutes. So the Orion is our student newspaper. And one of the things you know, we also we have lots of awards in hand our students do amazing work, we also received a pacemaker 100 award. And I guess though what I think I love about our student journalists is the energy and the excitement and passion that they have for very much getting into being part of our community and to connecting all over campus and I think the students love working together. And you know, working a lot with also some of our university professionals on on the news side so it's it's an exciting, of course paper to be a part of and a fun experience. We do have a student managed full service PR agency, and we take students who are part of of course public relations, but then also from the news side on the editorial team. And we also bring in students from the media arts program as a graphic designers, they do more to media content and also photo video work. And we work with lots of different types of clients, we typically take, you know, six to 10 clients a semester, and students sit on multiple teams, so they get to work with different types of clients each each semester. So I mentioned MedX. And that's our Media Entertainment and technology experience. And this is a fun collaboration, interdisciplinary work between computer animation and game development, our program, and the media arts design and technology. And the work that we do there is really around what we'd call immersive storytelling where the students are conceptualizing how to tell amazing immersive stories using VR augmented reality and 360 degree video. The project that we're working on for Fall is with USGS, and is focused on building a serious game or simulation around earthquake disaster and response is an educational game and also designed to help promote better environmental awareness. I'm at a program out of time, so I'm happy to talk later about sort of the nuts and bolts of the program, the classes you take, how things transfer in, and any of those logistical questions about what your experience might be like at Chico State.
