SLIS doc student Plato Smith II selected by NSF as early career scholar

FSU School of Library & Information Studies doctoral student Plato L. Smith II was chosen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a leading American early career scholar to be invited to its “Early Career Strategic Visioning Workshop” for EarthCube last October at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. “We were very happy …

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Newly recruited football player Bryant says FSU has a top comm. program

Davarez Bryant, a defensive end football player senior from New Smyrna Beach, called his February weekend visiting Florida State University (FSU) “great” in an article published by the Daytona Beach News-Journal.  Bryant was deciding where to play football, and it seems like our university made a favorable impression — especially as far as academics are …

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COMM professors and grad student co-write article published in academic journal

A research article, co-written by School of Communication professors, Dr. Jonathan Adams and Dr. Juliann Cortes, and graduate student, Sue Lee, was published by the academic journal, Contemporary Issues in Teacher Education (CITE).  Titled, “The Acceptability of Online Degrees: Principals and Hiring Practices in Secondary Schools”, their work discusses how principals perceive teaching certifications earned …

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American Library Association grants continued accreditation to SLIS program

In a letter addressed to Dr. Kathleen Burnett, professor and interim director of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University, the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association (ALA) stated that it had voted to grant continued accreditation status to the school’s master’s degrees in library and information studies. …

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Seminole Productions offers students real-work experience

The Florida State University School of Communication’s Seminole Productions was highly commended in a recent article for providing students with real-work media production experience.  This company is also used by many departments for their video needs.  The article was published January 27, 2013 on both FSU News and Tallahassee.com.  Seminole Productions is supervised and was …

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Software developer engages CCI with day of social media research presentations

Dr. Jeanette Castillo, FSU School of Communication assistant professor of digital media, coordinated a day of social media education featuring a series of presentations by Dr. Stuart Shulman on Jan. 18.  Shulman is the current Director of the Quantitative Data Analysis Program for the University of Massachusetts.  His start-up company, Texifter, LLC, of which he …

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