Good evening, and welcome to all of you to our JCC. So Cal Virtual College Fair, where we're going to have an opportunity to hear from journalists in a community college programs that can excuse me, journalism and communications program up and down the state on for your campuses tonight. And we're very excited to welcome all of these folks from all of these different campuses.
Hi, everybody, I'm Waleed Rashidi. I'm an associate professor at Cal State Fullerton in Orange County. And I'm here to talk to you about our major. It's a communications major as part of the Department of Communications at Cal State Fullerton, we have four concentrations within our major, there is journalism, public relations, we also have advertising and we also have entertainment and tourism, which is kind of a unique major for communication. So I'm going to kind of break that down for you and share some more information over here. So a little bit about Cal State Fullerton and of itself, we are one of the largest Cal State Universities, approximately 40,000 students, and our College of Communications, again, has four majors. And, of course, the communications department has four concentrations. So we are part of the College of Communications and our department has again, journalism, PR entertainment and advertising. And if you want to know where Fulton is, and you're not too sure about where it is in Orange County, Oregon, seven miles away from Disneyland, that's probably a good way to figure it out. As far as some, some university information you can just see over here and these particular graphs, and you get kind of an idea as to the student population that we have and kind of break down as far as freshman, sophomore, junior, and seniors as well, and some of our graduation rates and whatnot. But moving into our Department of Communications, we have been around for 60 years. We are one of the largest communications programs in the Western US. We're located in the second largest media market in the US with a vast alumni base of over 25,000 COMM graduates. Again, those four concentrations I mentioned earlier, we also have certificate programs to where students can specialize in certain things. We do have a master's program. And of course, we have dozens of faculty with decades of professional experience and industry connections. And we also have an internship program to our journalism concentration. We do have all kinds of high impact programs I'll tell you about in just another slide. But I'll just mention very quickly, we do have a newspaper called The Daily Titan Tusk magazine. And we also have some broadcast shows that we run along with some clubs to SSP. J, and a BJ Aja and Latino journalists, we have a PR major as well. And again, we do also have our own agency called practical advantage, which our students can get some hands on work with. And we also offer some event planning classes, including they could do a conference for comm week or work on the Newport Beach Film Festival. And we do have a PRSSA chapter, we have this very unique major called entertainment, tourism communications. And of course, where we are based in Southern California, we have a lot of great opportunities for our students. And we do have a club called the entertainment tourism club as well. And again, students can work with various entertainment and tourism companies when it comes to this major, and I do have a lot of students who have graduated and got into some really cool programs and cool occupations as well. And then we also have an advertising concentration, which also includes a club that's called the ad club. And again, students there can also work with a student agency to just to mention our student media opportunities a little more, we have aldeia, which is our Spanish language TV program with the daily Titan, which is our newspaper, and OC news, which is also a television program. We also have Tusk magazine. And that's our yearly publication. And we also have Titan radio. So we have on campus radio station, which is all via the internet. And we also have Titan sports for students who want to get into sports broadcasting. So I just want to share some of these opportunities for you. And hopefully, you'll be able to find out more information when we get into the breakout rooms. And thank you very much from Cal State Fullerton.
Hi, I'm Gretchen Macchiarella. I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism. Technically, my title is professor of digital media and emerging journalistic practices. We have a very digital focused program. Let's see if we can get some slides here. Yeah, let's try this out. So at CSUMB so we have some transfer deadlines there you can see those and then we have a broadcast journalism, major public relations or general Journalism which is torque art, digital and print kind of focus. We also have minors in public relations journalism, and Spanish language journalism. Our student media includes the Daily Sundial, which is a legacy newspaper, but currently focused on a bi monthly print product with a daily digital website product. And then we have our TV studio that has that is host for Valley View News, which is our broadcast news focus area. And that was not the slide I was expecting. But I love it. This is it. Our student is a newsroom. And one of the things I wanted to make sure that we talked about was our incredibly diverse campus as well as student media participation. Our other show is called on point which is a weekly news topics television program. We also have our licensed radio station are all of our broadcast students work at some point in the radio station. We have been working with the Telemundo Academy to have our students getting some of the specific and direct connection to those newsrooms and the new technical skills that they're hoping to have in their newsrooms at Telemundo. Our student clubs include SPJ rtdna, the Latino journalists, na BJ, Asian American journalists Association and PR SSA. We also have a, our practicum for public relations, which is agency 398. So I will take questions, we'll be going to the breakout rooms. I think I did that a little quickly, but they give us the time.
My name is Dr. Nancy Cheever. I'm a professor and the journalism program coordinator at Cal State Dominguez Hills, which is located just off the 405 and 91 freeways in the South Bay region of LA. We are a beautiful, modern urban university with a highly highly diverse student body of about 17,000. So we are a lot smaller than some of the other universities. Our BA in journalism encourages professional practice that promotes equity for all students, training them to be sensitive to and provide a voice for the underserved, underrepresented and marginalized communities as a social responsibility. Along with our journalism, P VA, we have a concentration in Latin X journalism, which trains students for Spanish language media. We are accredited by the Council on Education in journalism and mass communication. And therefore, we have very small class sizes, which our students love. We have a very small student faculty ratio of about 20 to one, and our students enjoy the fact that they can just waltz into our office at any time and have a chat with us. So we are all kind of located together in one building. So that's also wonderful. We do have a journalism club, the Society of independent student journalists. We have a student run newspaper and HANYAN broadcast channel called the bulletin and bulletin TV. We have a magazine, two magazines actually radio station, and our faculty are from a variety of professional backgrounds. We also host a World Press Freedom Day event every year with industry professionals, and students are able to make direct contact with people in the field. Our students have won lots of awards, and they participate in a variety of internships as part of their coursework. Our program also offers a fellowship to help students cover the cost of their tuition in their senior years, and it's a fellowship offered by the Hollywood foreign press Association. Their funds help promising students who lacked the financial resources and connections to have equal access to current and future journalism career opportunities. it benefits our students by contributing their valuable voices to an industry that desperately needs more diversity and representation, thought and perspective. Just want to mention that our application deadline is November 30. So you still have a couple of weeks if you're interested in applying. And thank you. It's nice to be here.
Thank you so much. So I'm Keirsey Hettinger. I'm an Associate Professor of Communication at Cal Lutheran University in beautiful 1000 oaks. We've got the Ventura County background behind me. They're thrilled to be joined tonight by my colleague Aaron Acevedo way there and there we go. So he is one of our transfer admissions counselors. We're so fortunate to have him here with us tonight as well. So we are a private liberal arts university in 1000, Oaks, California, we are a smaller school of about 3500 total students about 20, about two thirds of which are traditional undergraduate students. Don't let the word private be off setting or off putting to anyone, because I believe about 98% of our student population comes in with some form of financial aid grants, scholarships, etc. to offset that cost. We have multiple majors. One thing that's really exciting is a big change in our university is that starting in fall 2024, we will be officially launching independent majors in journalism, advertising and public relations and sports communication. We have always had a communication and a marketing communication major. So those are two programs that we offer. The marketing communication major is an interdisciplinary program shared with our School of Management. But we've had emphases before. But we are excited to launch these as independent majors. As I said, starting in fall 2024. Of course, we also have minors. And one thing that we have that's really exciting is our interdisciplinary Spanish Media Minor. I believe we are actually the only private liberal arts college in the nation to have one of those. So fact check me may be but I'm feel pretty confident about that one. So because we are so small, and we have a faculty ratio of about 14 to one, so you really do get to know your faculty and your faculty are really responsive. We were asked to talk about what makes our program unique. And I think the Spanish media minor is a fantastic example. Because that minor came about from student demand. I was at a student media conference, and a student came to me and said, Hey, Dr. H, I was just talking to this guy, and he's at a Hispanic serving institution, and they have Spanish language media. We're a Hispanic Serving Institution, how come we don't? And I said, Well, let's do it. And a couple years later, we had a Spanish media minor. So I love the fact that being a little bit smaller, we are able to be agile and respond to student interest in that way. So we do have an award winning student newspaper, very proud of that in the faculty advisor. We are primarily digital these days that we do and end of semester print issue that does include our Spanish language, insert l echo. We also have our campus radio station, ACLU, we also have an NPR affiliate housed on our campus, which is quite exciting. And of course, we have an interdisciplinary TV and film program as well. So lots of opportunities, small, beautiful campus, and I think pretty welcoming faculty. So we'd love to have you and we're looking forward to sharing more information in those breakout rooms. So thank you.
All right, so Chapman journalism, here's the brochure for it. But I'm in the breakout room with you, you know, obviously share emails and stuff, I'll be able to send this, send this your way and especially send the two years that in the two years in which you can, you know, jam through the program publications, well, there's the monthly magazine chapbook. And then there's the Panther newspaper, the university run campus weekly newspaper, however, I will point out, it is not part specifically of the journalism program. It's run by students under the dean. What is unique about the program, and by the way, the student to teacher ratio is about one to 15. And journalism program has essentially it's part of the English department so that we have a journalism emphasis. And within the English department of BA with journalism emphasis, a BA with journalism minor and BA with visual journalism minor. The uniqueness of the program stems from this partnership that I'm highlighting here with well, with the Orange County's only nonprofit newsroom, called the voice of Orange County. What our program is pretty squarely it's this is in the fifth year. It's In the fifth year journalism program in partnership with voice, which is, like I said, a nonprofit newsroom, there's about 200 or nonprofit newsrooms in the country. It's an experiment that that I think, I'd say we're thriving because students are publishing directly in a bonafide news publication in the county, this news organization voice covers 34 cities, and students are in the program. In workshop classes soon big within the first year can start publishing there and start building a portfolio of clips. It's largely Public Affairs reporting. So government shining a light at halls, city halls and government throughout the county, and report stories directly from affecting and impacting folks out in the community and getting to know people, activists, government leaders, and so forth. So that's a pretty unique aspect. scholarships that are available, I can tell you more about it, when you duck into the room and tell you more about the classes as far as the deadline. Let's see here. It is, February 15. Of course, the priority deadline has come and gone. But February 15, is the deadline for transfer students. Like I said, scholarship opportunities for transfer students as well. And here is the key again, the uniqueness of the program, the voice of Orange County, if you click on voice website, go to news and Collegiate News Service. For the last five years, students have published about 250 Some stories, and you all can get an opportunity to be be published there as well. If you join our journalism program, I'll save the rest of it for a breakout room. So thank you so much. And look forward to meeting you.
Yeah, I'm Professor Matthew Poole,
and the chair of the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. And we're located just at the base of the mountains, the San Bernardino range of mountains. So anybody interested in snowboarding, we are very close to all the snowboarding slopes, and so forth. We're also really close to the desert. And we actually have a second campus, a satellite campus at Palm Desert, the city of Palm Desert. I'm going to talk about one aspect of our communication studies degree. I'm going to kind of walk you through some aspects of our website. We have a Communication Studies degree that has three concentrations. And I'll just share my screen. This is our homepage. But if you hover over the undergraduate menu item there, you'll see we've got concentrations in media studies, strategic communication, and relational and organizational communication, which means the students take courses in the core of the major but then, especially in areas such as journalism, which we offer within Media Studies, specifically multimedia journalism. And you can also take complementary classes, you know, from strategic communication, for example, as electives. So we offer a lot of different choice. It's a very big program. It's one of the biggest programs in the university. And there's a lot of different choices that we offer. So we in terms of journalism, we have a lot of resources. We have the Kennedy Chronicle, which is our newspaper, our student newspaper, it's overseen by Dr. Gregory Gundry, who you can see here, but it's of course, run by students. You can access the issues of the newspaper on this site. Just just Googling CSUSB cozy chronicle gets you there as well. We also have a TV studio, we run local matters. We choose a class of students can take they can take it several times, but it's also a club so students can get involved in different ways. It's the same for the newspaper as well. And we have a YouTube channel for local matters so you can see what the students have been producing. We've got two radio stations at CSUSB. And we've got the coyote radio station which is at the San Bernardino campus. We also have paws radio, which is at the Palm Desert campus. And similarly students can take those they can work with the radio stations in practical classes, but also can can do paid work in the radio stations and also just be a volunteer or join the Katy radio Post radio clubs, we have a wide range of clubs. This is our page on the website for that, as you can see a number of different types of clubs there. We've just started our film club, which is pretty exciting. Alongside the TV studio, we have a huge inventory of film and TV, film and video, as well as audio equipments. And in our TV studio. Whilst we do run the local matters, TV network, we also we also have students creating narrative film or documentary film. And actually, that's one of our, one of our really popular areas. And they have a multimedia and immersive technologies Lab, which one of our journalism students use, I was just talking about the unit on campus called ATI Academic Technologies and innovation. And many of our instructors in the media studies area collaborate with ATI on the multi in the multimedia and immersive technologies Lab, which is using all sorts of new technologies, including virtual reality and augmented reality for filmmaking and so on. But but especially for journalism, that's something we're really proud of, and something that is growing rapidly. So as long as those things, we're also currently developing an inland empire community journalism Center, which is going to be responding to the fact that there is no sort of hub for journalism in the Inland Empire, you know, we serve 4.9 million people in the Inland Empire. And there is no hub for that. And that is going to be housed at CSUSB. We've also just finished creating a minor in photo journalism. And we've got new classes in photo journalism. And so we're going to be partnering with the Department of Art and Design. We have photographic equipment, but art and design have a darkroom studios, digital lab for photography, lighting studios, and again, an amazing cache of equipment for photography. So we're looking forward to that partnership. And then also we we have an MA in communication studies as well. And we just received a $750,000 gift for scholarships for students, graduate students studying with us specifically for journalism. So anybody interested in going on to further study might be interested in our MBA program was well in a few years time, where we have scholarships specifically for those studying juveniles. The last thing I'll say is, our deadline for transfer students is November 30. And I'd be happy to talk to students about the criteria and so on for transfer students in breakout rooms. So thanks very much.
Hi, folks. I'm Richard Craig, Professor and Faculty Advisor of Spartan Daily at San Jose State. We have journalism, advertising, PR, we also have special programs in sports journalism, and Spanish language journalism. And for any of you that don't know, I'm the interloper from Northern California. If you want to get a little farther away from your parents, this is one way to do it. But we're in San Jose, which is just 40 minutes south of San Francisco. And I'm going to focus primarily on our journalism areas and our student media because our student media really, you're the reason why you want to listen to me as opposed to folks from Stanford or UCLA or whatever. Because our student media are truly outstanding. We have the Spartan Daily, which is our daily newspaper, we have update news, which is our TV broadcast that goes out to the whole bay area. We have access magazine, which is our feature magazine, and we have the spear, which is our sports, magazine slash website slash podcast and everything. Just to give you an idea of how successful our student media are just three weeks ago in Atlanta, the Spartan Daily won the pacemaker award and nationally from associated collegiate press for a newspaper and news magazine. We've also won national awards, fairly recently, the Pinnacle Award and 2021 as best college newspaper in America and not just best in California, not like best in California is a bad thing with USC and UCLA and all these big guys around. We've certainly done well there we got best campus newspaper from cnpa, three out of the last four years from CCNA, two out of the last four years. In the last seven years total. We've won 48 national awards, and 131 statewide award What this means is, when you work in our student media, you have a chance to strut your stuff in really, really great platforms. We have students graduating right now that can always say they win national journalism awards. So I'm gonna show you a few examples. We obviously have great visuals, but our really strong area has been in investigative reporting real issues that matter to our students. What you're looking at here is part of a series that won us our first national award. This one is pretty much statewide, we started an investigation of a local athletic trainer that wound up being investigated by the US Justice Department. This got us our first Best in Show or it's tied into black lives matter. There was local protests here, you can see how we covered this stuff. So yeah, we take on serious issues. We it's not that we don't have some fun with other things. But this is an example here where our athletic department was siphoning off scholarship, money to pay coaches, things like that. You know, we've done a lot of things, you can see that our reporting wound up leading to the resignation over a university president, and some of the graphics had been fantastic. You can see that here. This is how we've won some of our national awards. And this is how I mentioned our students graduates, having won national and statewide awards and they're just knuckleheads like the rest of you guys. So as we like to say, anyway, update news is our TV broadcast that goes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Biggest thing is we have an absolute state of the art professional digital facility that we broadcast from, we actually rent it out to local production companies. Our instructors have won Emmy Awards. They work very closely with our students. And our students work on both sides of the camera you learn they learn video shooting, editing, production and appearing on screen. Our update grads have done great stuff. Let's see briefly this is the control room of our digital facilities. Our professor Diane grotty here. This is our TV news sets with the material dropped in in the background. This is what it looks like when it doesn't have the digital images in there. So I have a few examples of visuals here. We worked with some digital animation students to come up with the intro for our news broadcast. It's pretty slick, we think and you will notice when we're finished here, we have students current students anchoring the broadcast. Students learn how to anchor they learn how to report on scene they learn behind the camera in front of the camera, etc. Here in just a moment, you'll see Andrea Britania, one of our students who's reporting on campus here, but by no means are you limited to reporting on campus stuff, we go around the community, we cover different events like the folklorico dance here. The important thing to note is we cover real stories this happened off campus a while back there was a gunman in a local building or a part of one. And you know we're out there with the regular professional media this is Adam Yoshi kala who is an undergraduate student out there, you know, doing the job just like the professionals do it. Access magazine is our feature magazine covers a huge variety of student interests. Again, we've won Best Student magazine in California twice in the last five years. We say that our slogan stunning visuals and stimulating content right now we'll see some of the visuals here in a minute. And when we look at it, you recognize the students are doing all the work here, the advisors, we answer questions, but we don't do the work, you guys do the work and get the credit. So anyway, you can see there's a lot of things that you can benefit from here, they will show more examples. This is some cover art. The first story you're gonna see here, actually one best magazine story in California a couple of years ago. And this is a case where we had a students during COVID, who worked from home in Malaysia. This is our access magazine cover that just won Best Magazine Cover nationwide. You can see how they take advantage of the particular characteristics of the magazine to tell stories in very visually interesting ways. We have photos here taken from a drone as an example. You know, you think of a magazine as being something that's set up as portrait, but this is a landscape setup. This is a cover from when we went bass magazine a couple of years ago. But yeah, you can go from portrait to landscape, you can do all sorts of interesting things to take advantage of the strengths of the media. So moving along, we also have the spear which is the CA CSC is preeminent sports media platform. We have not just a magazine that comes out multiple times per semester. We have website and social media updated all the time. We have print media, video and podcasts we take A lot of pride in being fair to women's sports in addition to just men's, we have, and again, we've won a lot of statewide awards too. So you can see some examples here. You know, you anybody can do a good cover art, but we take pride in the inside layouts as well. As you'll see in a second, our website covers day to day sports activity. But basically, if you come in as either a writer, photographer or layout person, these are great venues for you to strut your stuff, particularly your foot into sports. I know a lot of people are, you can see obviously, we have women's sports on the cover in addition to men's. So it's not just football all the time, etc. So to summarize quickly, we have student media outlets that are honored both statewide and nationwide, we have a variety of different platforms for you to get your stuff. You got faculty with professional experience and connections. We have really top notch facilities, especially for a state school here, we have successful alumni from around the nation in the world. As we mentioned before, if you are a little tight on funds, it costs a lot less to come to us than to places like USC and Stanford, we offer scholarships, you can get grant money, etc. We're 40 miles south of San Francisco. So what's not to like? This is my contact information. Anybody who's interested, you can give me a call, you can shoot me an email, and we'll talk in the breakout rooms.
My name is Thomas Schmidt. I'm an associate professor at the Department of Communication at UC San Diego and I also have a few slides that I would like to share.
Here we go. So UC San Diego Department of Communication, this is not the department. This is a piece of public art, but it shows a little bit the, you know, the things that we care about in terms of combining like the traditional and the pathbreaking and the creative and the solid. UC San Diego just a quick overview located in La Jolla, California, we are public Of course, we have 33,000 students, we're constantly growing, there is a construction around our building. But this makes it all the more exciting because there's always new stuff kind of coming going up. application due date is November 30. I'm in the Department of Communication. And it's not an overstatement to say that we're a little bit unusual. You might even say a little bit quirky, even for the standards of communication departments. I'm personally am a former journalist. I'm from Austria, where I had a career in TV journalism and prints, then switched careers. I've got a degree in the States. And I'm actually only one of two people teaching journalism and how journalism has evolved in the US and and abroad. But if you were looking for something that brings in a very interdisciplinary perspective, we are the place to be people are really proud of my department that we have everything from ethnographers and anthropologists, Science and Technology Studies. You name it. There are very few specialists, which makes for a very creative and very engaged environment. We offer an a BA in communication. Again, it's already very interdisciplinary draws from different disciplines. It's both it has a strong production component. So there are some classes with award winning filmmakers who have endured experience both in Hollywood, but also in areas like Kpop and emerging emerging media. And we're right now just we're about to launch a BA in media industries and communication and media industries in this case, would be film, television. And also journalism. We have 700 students, majors and minors, about half of our students are transfer students and to do really well here. They refund at home and you know, it's a big campus, but our program also has a reputation of being very welcoming and and fun and challenging and weird. But you know, in all the good ways we have 26 faculty, so we have a relatively good student, faculty ratio. In terms of resources, there is a media teaching lab with access to photo, film, video and audio. Again, we have production classes, so there's faculty kind of training you in in the basics, but then you go out and do it for yourself. I'm actually also the CO leader of what's called democracy Lab, which is a collective where we try to organize events bring peace put in, but also creates opportunities for students to work with podcasting. And bring, bring that perspective and, and since last year, I think we are home of the world, which is a public radio show. Produced by PRI and mark a woman, the host is sending from our department. So if you hear if you're, if you like Public Radio, and you're listening to the world, and you hear the world brought to you by UC San Diego, that's that's where we at in terms of student media, so we don't have a journalism major, I am not involved with student media. They don't have faculty advisors. They love their autonomy and their independence. And I think that holy rocks, we have two students print publications. One is the UCSD Guardian that you can check out and the other one is to Triton. That's a digital first online prints publication. And then there's campus radio ks TD, I'd be happy to talk more to you about what makes us so unusual and quirky but also really interesting. Since location has been mentioned. You know, we we are where people come to serve. So just just putting this out there, in case you need any kind of inspirations. This is what it looks like. If you have any specific questions about details for the program, and our wonderful undergraduate advisor she's in the department she's not a university advisor mela Linda Lin will be happy to talk to you so I want to put up her email address in case you're watching this also as a broadcast. So you can also reach out to me personally if you're watching this and you want to find me. That's it for now. Thank you so much.
