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Lincoln University – The University’s Mass Communications Center of Excellence will host its third annual graduate school forum Wednesday, March 7, allowing students to learn more about area graduate programs in communication and media studies.
The forum, in Grim Hall Rm. 200 at 12:30 p.m., will help Lincoln’s mass communications students get connected with some of the area’s top colleges. Representatives from the University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, West Chester, Villanova, Temple, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Delaware will discuss the features of their programs.
Assistant professor Dr. Nadine Gabbadon says this is an important step in preparing students for their lives after Lincoln.
“If people are going to grad school, it’s a way to get a feel of what to look forward to,” said Gabbadon.
Panelists include Stephen Dougherty, assistant dean at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; Nancy Signorielli, graduate program director from the University of Delaware; Joseph Selden, Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs, College of Communications at Penn State University; John L. Jackson Jr., Professor of Communication and Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania; and Michael Boyle, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies at West Chester University. Gabbadon said she hopes that more journalism majors will consider graduate study as a result of the forum. “These schools happen to be journalism related which makes the forum relevant to mass communications majors,” she said.
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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.