EKU Communication

When Jason Edwards chose his brother, Joe, as the subject of his internship project at Eastern Kentucky University last summer, he hoped to gain more than a good grade.

Six members of the Department of Communication full-time faculty were recently nominated for the 2013 Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year award.  Nominees included Dale Anderson, Dr. Mike Branstetter, Dr. Kathy Keltner-Previs, Dr. Jayne Violette, Dr. Jim Gleason and Dr. Ginny Whitehouse.  

The 2011 Community Journalism project - Growing the Next Generation of Community Journalists - just keeps going. The students in the class conducted a study of school/newspaper partnerships and produced a report sent to every high school and newspaper in Eastern's service region.

Dr. Amy Thieme has been elected 2013 Faculty Regent. The results of the run-off election for the 2013 Faculty Regent Election were verified today by the Faculty Senate Elections and University Nominations Committee.  

A group of EKU Public Relations students and faculty joined President Doug Whitlock today as he received the "2013 Communicator of the Year Award" from the Thoroughbred Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

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The Marguerite Casey Foundation is pleased to announce its 2013 Journalism Scholarship Program on Poverty.

The program aims to increase the public’s and policymakers’ understanding of poverty through journalism.

BY: KASEY TYRING
progress@eku.edu

Five young adult women stood in their pageant gowns, crossing their fingers and praying their performances were good enough to get them the crown to be named Miss Kentucky United States. For one Eastern senior, her performance was better than the rest.

Eastern Kentucky University students are invited to participate in a pilot project sponsored by WEKU, the University’s Department of Communication and the Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI).

Staff members of The Eastern Progress, the student-produced weekly newspaper at Eastern Kentucky University, captured 10 awards in the University Division of the Kentucky Press Association 2012 Excellence in Kentucky Newspaper Awards contest.

The awards were presented Jan. 25 during KPA’s winter convention at the Brown Hotel in Louisville.