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Sept. 15: CAL STATE FULLERTON’S 50th ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE

The College of Communications will join in Cal State Fullerton’s 50th Anniversary Open House Sept. 15, inaugurating a year-long celebration honoring the university’s achievements.

The College of Communications Open House will begin at 10 a.m. when DEAN RICK PULLEN will welcome students and alumni. An all-university event will follow at noon in the Quad. A number of activities, including tours of the Titan Newsroom and the College’s Multimedia Studios and talks highlighting the Bateman competition and Comm Week, will take place throughout the day.

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SEPT. 17 & 18: RTP WORKSHOPS SCHEDULED

Retention and Tenure Preparation Workshops will take place Sept. 17 and 18. For more details, contact Mougo Nyaggah or the Faculty Affairs Office.

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SEPT. 19 & 20: LEAVES COMMITTEE SETS SABBATICAL WORKSHOPS

Two Sabbatical Workshops will take place next week. The Sept. 19 workshop will be held from 10-11 a.m. in PLN-130. The Sept. 20 workshop will be held from 10-11 a.m. in MH-141.

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What’s New?

Department’s B.A. Grads Doing Well in Job Market

Cal State Fullerton’s 2006 bachelor’s degree recipients in Communications are more likely to be employed and earning a higher salary than graduates of other universities.

The 2006 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communications Graduates shows that graduates of U.S. journalism and mass communication programs confronted a weakened job market in 2006 and early 2007, as the recovery that began only two years earlier stalled. Salaries for graduates with full-time jobs did increase and even managed to outpace inflation just slightly. Benefits, however, showed a marked decline.

The annual study is prepared by Dr. Lee B. Becker, professor and director of the Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at The University of Georgia. The table below shows those statistics for bachelor’s degree recipients nationally and for bachelor’s degree recipients from Cal State Fullerton’s Department of Communications.

Employed -------------------------------------Full-Time (N)----Median Annual Salary (N)

National 2006 bachelor’s degree recipients ----63.7%----------- $30,000

CSUF’s 2006 bachelor’s degree recipients -----75.5% -----------$32,500

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Communication’s Summer Grades Consistent with University

Summer instruction grade-point-average have been released by Vice President Ephraim Smith’s office. The following table explains GPAs in the Department of Communications:

-----------------------Comm ------Comm--------University----- University Average
----------------------Numbers-----Grades--------Numbers-------Grades
Lower Division -------102---------3.02-------------3911----------2.65
Upper Division------- 895---------2.78------------13744---------2.87
Undergrad------------997--------- 2.81-----------17655----------2.82
Graduate--------------19----------3.74-------------1918--------- 3.67

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Executive Committee Nixes Advisement by Alphabet

Faculty will no longer be assigned students to advise by the last name of the alphabet. The Executive Committee determined that the procedure was no longer warranted and that students should be able to receive advisement from any faculty member within the concentration whose office hours meet their needs.

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Who’s Published?

XTINE HANSON will be included in the fall 2007 issue of the Journal of the New Media Caucus, a subdivision of The College Arts Association (a peer-reviewed journal of digital media and media arts). The fall journal theme/title is "Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements 2007." She is one of 35 artists to be included. It can be viewed online at:
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/content/fall_2007/fall_2007.html

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CINDY KING was quoted in the Aug. 16 St. Cloud Times online edition about “High School Musical,” a pop culture and marketing phenomenon, which aired on the Disney Channel. According to the Times, since its premiere in January 2006, the original two-hour TV movie has been seen by about 160 million people, according to Disney. It has generated $500 million in sales of DVDs, soundtracks (it was the No. 1 album of any type for 2006) and other retail items. The “HSM” movies could energize a pop music format that has faded in popularity, King said.

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JEFF BRODY was quoted in the Aug. 23 Los Angeles Times about the firing of Orange County Register publisher N. Christian Anderson. Brody said that Anderson hired “a more aggressive and professional staff to bolster the Register’s hold.” He noted that Anderson’s leadership helped the paper win the first of its three Pulitzers in 1985.

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The third edition of the Copy Editors Handbook for Newspapers by TONY FELLOW AND TOM CLANIN is being published by Morton Publishing Company.

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New Adjunct Faculty

FORMER KNBC ANCHOR LIZ ANDERSON TEACHING IN JOURNALISM

Multi-Emmy winning veteran television news correspondent Liz Anderson has joined the department’s adjunct faculty. She is teaching Comm. 202, Reporting for Mass Media II, during the fall semester. She currently is a media strategist and owner of LizMedia, Inc.

In her 10 years at KNBC, Anderson earned two Emmys for news and entertainment and Los Angeles Press Club awards for her “sweeps” series called “I Remember You,” a five-part series featuring America’s musical living legends. In addition, she worked at CNN Los Angeles and Atlanta, PBS, FOX and KTLA. A graduate of UCLA, Anderson began her career as an intern with Barbara Walters.

Her first job was The Montana News Network and the NBC affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. Her father was conductor of the Los Angeles Youth Symphony and helped create the now famous Idyllwild Arts Academy.

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CSUF M.A. GRAD BOBBIE COOPER TEACHING IN PUBLIC RELATIONS

Bobbie Cooper, an accomplished marketing and communications professional with a proven track record in technical, industrial and consumer products industries, is teaching this fall in the public relations concentration.

Cooper, an M.A. graduate from the Department of Communications, is a recognized expert in international, internet and partnership marketing, project management, merchandising, package design and sales training.

She is currently director of marketing for Veterinary Pet Insurance in Brea and was formerly manager of Marketing Communications and director of Marketing Services & Communications with Avery Dennison Office Products.

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Students & Alums in the News

Lida Lopez

LIDIA LOPEZ, an incoming graduate student, has received a $2,500 California State University, Fullerton Graduate Equity Fellowship.

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Cecilia Chavez and Mary Lou Pinedo

CECILIA CHAVEZ AND MARY LOU PIEDO are winners in this year’s Hispanic Public Relations Association competition. CSUF was the only school with two recipients. And both are working full time and raising a family.

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Bernice Lee

BERNICE LEE, a photocommunications graduate, was selected to be one of 48 summer interns at National Public Radio this summer. Lee worked in the office of the general counsel at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Currently a third-year law student at Northeastern University in Boston, Lee’s experience includes interning with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and with a federal district judge.

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Cheryl Ann Bishop

CHERYL ANN BORNHORST, a 1976 B.A. graduate from the Department of Communications, died Aug. 8 at the age of 53. She moved in 1990 to Oregon City where she was a projectionist for Act II, Regal Cinemas and Cornelius 9 Cinemas.

She most recently lived in Hillsboro. In 1987, she married John K. Bishop. Survivors include her husband and brother, Dale Bornhorst. Remembrances can be made to the Bonnie L. Hays Small Animal Shelter in Hillsboro.

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