Kopenhaver Center Hosts Workshop at AEJMC 2013 Conference

Workshop prepares women faculty members to advance their communication careers   

NORTH MIAMI, FL – Florida International University’s Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication successfully hosted its first Women Faculty Moving Forward Pre-Convention Workshop during this year’s annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

The August event, co-sponsored by the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women and the AEJMC Council of Affiliates, is one of a series by the Kopenhaver Center to advance the professional growth of female academics in the field of communication. The inaugural workshop provided attendees with opportunities for networking and sessions on mentoring and career building. It also featured keynote speeches from Hagit Limor, professor of electronic media at the University of Cincinnati and former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, and Dianne Lynch, president of Stephens College.

“I’m absolutely thrilled with the outcome and positive feedback we received about the workshop at the AEJMC Conference,” says Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, executive director of the Kopenhaver Center. “An event like this encapsulates the center’s mission and goals of fostering the next generation of women scholars and professionals. We need to continue moving forward and empowering each other, to empower ourselves, and to nurture the future women leaders of the communications fields.”

Faculty members who completed the workshop were awarded certificates and named Kopenhaver Center Fellows.

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