“Women have to be able to be themselves and not play a role that someone else… Almost always a man… Thinks they should play. Women have to have the freedom to speak truth to power, stand their ground, own their space and know they belong.” That was a major point made by Dianne Festa, [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Karen McIntyre, Kopenhaver Center Junior Woman Scholar Award winner who was invited to Beijing to deliver a keynote speech at the first conference on constructive journalism in China. The conference was organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the leading social science research institution in the country. The Nov. 9 [...]
Congratulations to Nyamekye Daniel, Kopenhaver Center Leadership Program fellow for being selected as a Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow. The yearlong program that gives journalists access to faculty in the field and will offer courses on First Amendment law, foundations of a free press, media ethics, reporting/storytelling techniques and other related topics. Nyamekye Daniel's professional [...]
The FIU School of Communication + Journalism (SCJ)– under the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts– inducted its first cohort into the inaugural class of the SCJ Hall of Fame. These exceptional individuals were nominated and selected because of their noteworthy accomplishments and advancement within the fields of communication, journalism, and media. “Our [...]
On October 21, 2017 the School of Communication + Journalism at Florida International University and District 6, Florida Scholastic Press Association host the FIU/FSPA 45th Annual South Florida Journalism Day. The College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts congratulates all the participants, advisors, faculty, staff and students who made this possible. Keynote Address: Lauren Pastrana, [...]
Jessica Gall Myrick, an assistant professor for The Media School at Indiana University-Bloomington, is the winner of the 2017 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Woman Junior Scholar Award. Kopenhaver is dean emeritus and professor at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The award will be presented on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at the [...]
National Conference: Explores Women in Communication: Breaking the Barriers Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus, North Miami, April 20, 2017 The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University’s College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts invites you to the center’s Second Annual Conference, “Women in Communication: Breaking the Barriers.” This national [...]
American History TV features Greenlee Prof. Tracy Lucht on ‘sob sisters’ and ‘stunt reporters’ AMES, Iowa – History is full of examples detailing the extremes women went to in order to break down gender barriers in journalism. In a class lecture that aired Jan. 7 on C-SPAN’s “Lectures in American History” program, Tracy Lucht, an [...]
Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication appoints Nathalie Desrayaud, PhD 2017 Research Fellow In Residence Nathalie Desrayaud, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University. She earned her MA in Communication from the University at Buffalo, NY, and her PhD [...]
