Henry Luce Foundation Awards Special Grant to FIU’s Kopenhaver Center for New Mentorship Initiative

Leadership Fellows Program to ignite the careers of female Hispanic/Latina media professionals NORTH MIAMI, FL – The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University (FIU) today announced it has received a $30,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to fund its Leadership Fellows Program to advance Hispanic women [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00March 26th, 2015|General, News|Comments Off on Henry Luce Foundation Awards Special Grant to FIU’s Kopenhaver Center for New Mentorship Initiative

Communications Week at FIU!

As part of Communications Week at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus, the Kopenhaver Center, in conjunction with the School of Journalism & Mass Communication (SJMC), will be hosting the Leadership Webinar, "Moving Women Forward: A Call for Leadership Training in Communication Education." Kathy R. Fitzpatrick of FIU's SJMC and Carolyn Bronstein of DePaul University's [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00March 23rd, 2015|General, News, Webinars|Comments Off on Communications Week at FIU!

Women Who Lead Conference at BBC on March 25, 2015

This Wednesday, March 25, 2015 the Women's Center at Florida International University will be holding its annual Women Who Lead Conference at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus. Please be sure to check it out! For a full itinerary of the daylong conference, visit: http://women.fiu.edu/women-who-lead-conference To register, visit: http://wwlbbc.eventbrite.com

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Professor Segev named associate director

Congratulations to professor Sigal Segev, who was recently named associate director for programming and research at the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Biscayne Bay campus. The main goal at the center is to empower both women professionals and academics in all the fields of communication. “We, at the [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00March 9th, 2015|General, News|Comments Off on Professor Segev named associate director

Women in communication talk equality at the Oscars

Have you ever been proud of an accomplishment? Our center aims to “empower both women professionals and academics in all the fields of communication.” So do several outstanding women in the movie industry. At the Oscars, 44 women nominees celebrated the work they’ve done. The #askhermore hashtag encouraged red carpet interviewers to ask female Oscar [...]

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