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Lincoln University — Four students from Lincoln University’s Mass Communications Center of Excellence had the chance to visit ESPN on April 14th. Students, Taji McCullough, Louisa Solomon, Joy McFadden and Khadeem Hughson, spent the day touring ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, CT, where they gained behind the scenes access to radio and television productions, including the network’s famed program, “SportsCenter”.
The visit was hosted by Mike Hill, who is an anchor for ESPN’s “SportsCenter”, “First Take”, “NFL Live”, “Baseball Tonight” and co-hosts the radio show, “Hill & Schlereth”. Hill and his ESPN colleagues, including Linda Cohn, Bruce Bowen and Jonathan Coachman, offered the group professional advice and even critiqued the students’ individual video productions.
One attendee, Taji McCullough, said, “It was an opportunity that many would kill for. It allowed Lincoln University students to embark upon one of the world’s dominant media outlets. We got a chance to get a first hand impression of what it would be like to work for a groundbreaking organization. It was the best day of my life.”
Louisa Solomon shared McCullough’s sentiments about the value of the trip. “The experience was exciting. There are really no words to specifically describe how great of an experience this was. This has further piqued my interest in the possibility of working there in production or working somewhere like that,” she said.
The trip to ESPN was sponsored by Lion Media and the Office of Career Services. For more information about this story or Lion Media, contact Ashley Sims at 484-365-7876.
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Lion Media houses WWLU 88.7FM and LU-TV and operates from a multi-million dollar,state-of-the-art Media Center on Lincoln University’s campus. Lion Media aims to enhance the educational and professional experiences of students in the Mass Communications Center of Excellence, as well as those interested in becoming media and communications practitioners.
Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinction. They are: Business and Entrepreneurial Studies, Lincoln/Barnes Visual Arts, Mass Communications, Grand Research Educational Awareness, Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy.