The spring semester career fair at the College of Communication and Information held on Tuesday, February 6th, featured over 40 employers from local communication and technology sectors. Held two weeks after the University’s career fair (Seminole Futures), the focus is on serving local employers that provide internships and employment for our majors in the School …
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Spring Career Fair Brings Alums Back to Campus to Recruit
Student Places at National Advertising Competition
Jess Kane is a third year Media Communication Studies student and Vice President of FSU’s chapter of Collegiate Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA). During the last week in January, Jess came in second place in the state of Florida at Collegiate DECA’s Advertising Campaign competition. She is now qualified to compete at the International …
CONTINUE READINGFSU Students Help Senior Citizens Meet Technological Needs
Each semester, a different group of students from the College of Communication & Information (CCI) IT program have been making a splash with local senior citizens. They have been volunteering throughout the region over the past five years at the Woodville Branch Library, Cherry Laurel Residential Community, Westminster Oaks Living Community, Tallahassee Senior Center and …
CONTINUE READINGWISE Fall 2017 Atlanta Trip
Author: Sydney Gilmore-Duffey Last Sunday, November 26, 2017, the Florida State University Women in IT/ICT Sharing Experiences (WISE) group had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Atlanta, Georgia to visit with several of the city’s most influential businesses. Accompanying us was CCI Associate Director of Development Mafe Brooks, Corporate Relations & Foundation Developer Jesse Torres, and CCI Associate Dean Ebe Randeree (who …
CONTINUE READINGDoctoral Student Research Travel Award winners
Doctorate students had the opportunity to present their research at the CCI Doctoral Research Poster Session. Students, alumni and faculty served as the audience for the session. We are proud to announce 5 students that were honored with the Doctoral Student Research Travel Award: Lynette Hammond Gerido—School of Information Kristie Escobar—School of Information Jessica Hooker—School …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool alumni release book about Palm Beach County libraries
A newly released book about Palm Beach County’s libraries was written by a variety of library professionals and historians. 4 of the authors of the book are either alumni or students of Florida State University’s iSchool. All of them receiving or seeking a Master’s in Library and Information Studies. Janet M. DeVries, Graham Brunk, Ginger Pedersen and Shellie Labell …
CONTINUE READINGFSU students mentor the next generation of STEM Leaders
At the end of October, five Florida State University College of Communication & Information students traveled to Orlando to work with 400 middle and high school students at the Technology Student Association (TSA) Leadership Conference. The goal of TSA is to prepare its members for the challenges of a dynamic world by promoting technological literacy, …
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