Lisa Fitton is Improving Childhood Literacy

Lisa Fitton, Ph.D., recently earned her doctorate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Florida State University this spring. She first began her involvement in research while attending Michigan State University, working under family therapy professor, Dr. José Rubén Parra-Cardona. Fitton’s role in the research project was helping develop an English instructional program for Spanish-speaking …

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Mallorie Lesher: Media Enthusiast and Advertising Alumna

Mallorie Lesher is a connoisseur of all things media. She majored in Advertising and Creative Writing, hoping to reach her career goals of working in creative advertising production, more specifically, graphic and audio design. A graduate of the class of 2017, Lesher now brings her talents to the marketing and consulting fields, currently working as a …

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FSU iCamp to Promote STEM Education

FSU College of Communication and Information (CCI) has successfully teamed up with the US Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) and the National Technology Student Association (TSA) to create FSU iCamp, which will offer 6 weeks of summer technology activities on FSU’s campus. FSU iCamp offers a pre-collegiate summer experience for talented high school students from groups …

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ICT Alum, Officer Carter Rooney

Tallahassee native, Carter Rooney, graduated from Florida State in 2016 with a bachelor’s in Information, Communication, and Technology. Since then, Rooney has taken his knowledge and skillsets to an unconventional setting. After graduation, Rooney moved to Austin, Texas, where he entered the police academy before becoming a patrol officer for the Austin Police Department. Rooney …

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CCI collaborates with FACTE to host summer tech workshop for Panhandle teachers

FSU’s College of Communication & Information (CCI) is hosting its 4th summer workshop for teachers in partnership with FACTE (Florida Association for Career & Technical Education) with partial funding provided by a Carl D. Perkins grant. The workshops were originally designed to support local teachers in Career & Technical Education (CTE) providing technology training in the …

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Atlanta continues to attract tech grads from CCI

With more than eight trips in the past three years, College of Communication and Information (CCI) students have once again traveled to Atlanta to seek employment, lured by the growth opportunities, corporate headquarters, and new startups that are making Atlanta their home.  Last month, ten students from CCI visited four companies in Atlanta.  They toured …

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