Spanx entrepreneur Sara Blakely, a 1993 Communication graduate and member of FSU’s national championship debate team, is featured on the cover of the March 26, 2012, issue of Forbes magazine. She is the youngest woman to make this year’s list of the world’s billionaires “without help from a husband or an inheritance.” Read the article. In …
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News about (and for) the alumni of the schools comprising the FSU College of Communication & Information
FSUComm alum shatters glass ceiling, makes Forbes' list of world's billionaires
CCI joins the fun as Legislature celebrates FSU Day 2012
View photo gallery Representatives of The Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information joined the festivities on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, as FSU Day was celebrated at the Capitol. Various colleges and support units from around campus had tables set up on the first three floors of the Capitol tower — we were on …
CONTINUE READINGFSUComm alum Kelly Lafferman joins WebSolvers
Kelly Lafferman (BS, Communication, 1992), a marketing, branding and communications executive in Central Florida, recently joined WebSolvers, a digital design and development firm as Principal of Strategy and Development. In this role, Lafferman will build a marketing, branding and communications practice area that enables WebSolvers to provide more strategic services toclients. Lafferman brings nearly two …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS alumna Blondeau elected to Tampa Bay Library Consortium Board
Karen Blondeau, FSU-SLIS alumna (MLIS ’10) and director of the Valencia College West Campus Library in Orlando, was recently elected to the Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC) Board of Directors as a representative of academic libraries.
CONTINUE READINGSLIS doc student and alumna Aisha Johnson publishes "Service to African Americans"
SLIS doctoral student and alumna Aisha Johnson was published “Service to African Americans” in The American Public Library Handbook. Aisha earned her MLIS at SLIS (’09) before entering the doctoral program and is currently working as an archival intern at the Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, funded by a nine-month Institute …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS grad published in national teen manual
SLIS alumna Jennifer Parsick (’08) has been published in the Collaborative Summer Library Program manual for teens. Forty-nine out of 50 U.S. states, as well as some American territories, use the manual to create their summer reading programs. “When I received my copy of the manual this morning,” Jennifer said, “I opened it and found …
CONTINUE READINGLatest Student Newsletter Released
Check it out – the Fall STUDENT newsletter is out! Click Here! If you know of any stories that we missed, send them to me (eranderee@cci.fsu.edu) for the Spring Newsletter (coming mid-March)
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