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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Chair of The Lincoln University’s Mass Communications department, Dr. Carmen Manning-Miller, was among 11 other journalism professors competitively selected as fellows for The Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Jan. 4-8.
The five-day institute, which is made possible through a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The E.W. Scripps Company, immerses fellows in the concepts and practice of entrepreneurship along with teaches them to establish contacts with public and private developers and/or investors. They also learn to use grants, contests and challenges as teaching opportunities as well as design a sample semester-long course in entrepreneurial journalism.
Led by Dan Gillmor, author of “Mediactive” and an internationally known speaker and thinker on new media and entrepreneurship, the institute also includes training from entrepreneurs, investors and Cronkite faculty.
To be considered, Manning-Miller and others submitted an online application, a statement, curriculum vitae/resume and a letter from their dean or department chair indicating their school’s plans to introduce a class in journalism entrepreneurship within the following academic year. Fellows are expected to return to their accredited institutions to establish or expand courses on media entrepreneurship.
Founded in 1854, The Lincoln University (PA) is the FIRST of four Lincoln Universities in the world and is the nation’s FIRST degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The University combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. Today, Lincoln, which enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women, possesses an international reputation for preparing and producing world-class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the FIRST African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Lillian Fishburne, the FIRST African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy; Langston Hughes,the noted poet; Kwame Nkrumah, the FIRST president of Ghana; Nnamdi Azikiwe, the FIRST president of Nigeria and a myriad of others.