We would like to congratulate those that were honored at the CCI Awards Ceremony in April. This night is dedicated to say thank you to students, faculty and community partners who have distinguished themselves in events such as humanitarian efforts, academia and leadership roles. View program as PDF Highlights: CCI’s Humanitarian of the Year: Catherine Timm FSU Academic Leadership …
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Best and Brightest Recognized at CCI Leadership Awards Ceremony
CCI Professor Art Raney Awarded FSU’s Most Prestigious Teaching Honor
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 …
CONTINUE READINGMeet Advertising Student Lexi Smith
Meet Lexi, junior in the Advertising program, world traveler and graphic designer. The Basics Name: Lexi Smith Degree: Bachelor’s in Advertising Anticipated Graduation: 2018 Hometown: Alpharetta, GA Meet Lexi Who do you admire and why? Barby Moro, she’s my boss at the Southern Scholarship Foundation. I have never met someone with so much positive energy, integrity, and passion for serving her …
CONTINUE READINGJennifer Proffitt Awarded 2017 NEA Excellence in the Academy’s Democracy in Higher Education Prize
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 …
CONTINUE READINGCCI’s Arrowhead Advertising Team Wins Districts at the National Student Advertising Competition
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, …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Study Reveals Hispanic Females Least Happy with Body Image
A study conducted at the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication (the Center) at Florida State University concluded that Hispanic females are more dissatisfied with their bodies than any other ethnicity. Dr. Sindy Chapa, director of the Center, Dr. Felicia F. Jordan Jackson, Dr. Jaejin Lee and Dr. Kimberly A. Davis conducted the study to discover …
CONTINUE READINGHouck and Students Roadtrip to the Mississippi Delta and Civil Rights Landmarks
Davis Houck, professor in the School of Communication, has been at Florida State University for over seventeen years, researching the history of the civil rights movement and how the civil rights movement moved. A large part of the movement happened in the Mississippi Delta, what Houck calls “the most southern place on earth”. To better understand the history, …
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