Arrowhead Advertising Team Advances to Final Round in National Competition

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Florida State University’s competitive Advertising Team – Arrowhead is one of eight teams advancing to the Finals in this year’s National Student Advertising Competition! The team took home 1st place at the district level and survived a tele-conference presentation to a professional panel during the Semi-Finals before being selected to advance. FSU’s team will be one of eight …

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CCI Professor Art Raney Awarded FSU’s Most Prestigious Teaching Honor

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The College of Communication and Information‘s Dr. Arthur A. Raney, our James E. Kirk Professor of Communication, is the recent recipient of Florida State University’s most prestigious honor for teaching, the 2017 Distinguished Teacher Award. The award represents the culmination of sustained excellence in teaching, with recipients required to have also received a University Teaching Award …

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Jennifer Proffitt Awarded 2017 NEA Excellence in the Academy’s Democracy in Higher Education Prize

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College of Communication and Information researcher and professor, Dr. Jennifer Proffitt recently received the 2017 National Education Association’s Excellence in the Academy’s Democracy in Higher Education Prize for co-authoring the article, “Preventing Violence or Promulgating Fear? ALEC, the NRA, and Guns on Campus.” Dr. Proffitt and UNF’s John Wesley White authored the article which appears …

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CCI’s Arrowhead Advertising Team Wins Districts at the National Student Advertising Competition

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Florida State University’s competitive Advertising Team – Arrowhead took home the 1st place prize at the district level of competition in this year’s National Student Advertising Competition! The student organization is a special branch of the Ad Club that resides within the College of Communications and Information at Florida State. With their first place prize, …

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FSU CCI Students Take Home Multiple Student ADDY Awards

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The College of Communication and Information had a strong showing at this year’s local ADDY Awards show, taking home three silver awards and a gold award across several categories of competition. The American Advertising Federation‘s ADDY awards season features a three round national competition that begins at the local level, with winners advancing through a …

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IT Leadership Students Lend a Hand

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Students in our IT program get a lot of hand-on experience working with the hardware and software that compose modern IT operations, but what about the most important component of an organization? People skills are paramount to providing successful IT services, and even more important when working on a team or managing a product. For …

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Graduate Students Awarded Top Paper at Hispanic/Latino Media & Marketing Conference

Two graduate students from the Integrated Marketing Communications program at Florida State University received the Top Paper Award at an international Hispanic media and marketing conference in Los Angeles last month. The students, Maria Fernanda Bayona and Xiang Tang, presented their research on Hispanic and Asian coffee consumption in the U.S. at the sixth annual …

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