AEJMC Pre-Convention Workshop Women Faculty Moving Forward

August 6, 2025, San Francisco

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Pre-Convention Workshop Women Faculty Moving Forward: “Pathways to Success” was held in San Francisco on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

Sponsored by the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University, and the AEJMC Council of Affiliates. This eleventh workshop with accomplished academics will help early-career women faculty members move forward in their careers through mentoring, networking, and preparing for tenure and promotion and administration or other leadership positions.

The keynote speaker for the workshop was Andrea Miller, Dean, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma. Panelists: Lisa Burns, Professor of Media Studies, Quinnipiac; Katie Foss, Director, School of Journalism & Strategic Media, Middle Tennessee State; Melita Garza, Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism and Director of Graduate Studies in Journalism, Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Stacey Hust, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and College Operations, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State; and Miglena Sternadori, Director, Women’s and Gender Studies, Texas Tech.