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SCHOOL
OF COMMUNICATIONS CELEBRATES LEGACY DAY WITH SPECIAL GUEST SHEILA
BROOKS OF SRB COMMUNICATIONS
WASHINGTON,
D.C. January 5, 2011 – Dean Jannette L. Dates and the
School of Communications (SOC) will celebrate the school’s 5th
Annual Legacy Day, commemorating the legacies of leading entrepreneurs such
as John H. Johnson, Cathy Hughes, and Earl Graves for their defining spirits
and legacies of excellence in communications businesses. This year’s
keynote speaker, Sheila Brooks, founder and CEO of SRB Communications is
also the school’s Entrepreneur in Residence. The event will be held
at Howard University’s Founders Library, 500 Howard Place, NW Washington,
DC, on Thursday January 27, 2011 from 2:30pm – 5:00pm. Legacy Day
is a part of the School of Communications’ ongoing 40th
Anniversary celebrations for this academic year.
This year’s
theme, “Celebrating 40 Years of Excellence, allows us to “recognize
the entrepreneurial spirit and outstanding contributions of those in media
and communications whose work parallels the 40 years in which the school
has sent alumni into their fields,” says Dean Dates. “Legacy
Day salutes communication and industry leaders and encourages a similar
spirit of creativity and pioneering business acumen among our student body.”
This year’s
program includes the annual “Business Plan Challenge” that is
open to all SOC students. Cash prizes from $1500-$500 are awarded for the
three best business plans of the year.
Keynote speaker,
Sheila Brooks, is an Emmy-award winning journalist, entrepreneur and advocate
for minority and women’s issues and small businesses. SRB Communications,
a full-service media and communications agency and post-production facility
in Washington DC., has been in business for 20 years and offers advertising,
marketing, public relations campaigns along with post-production services
for a range of clients. Brooks has garnered several entrepreneurial awards
including the 2009 Black Rose Entrepreneur Award. She serves on the
Advisory Boards of Capital One Bank, the Women’s Leadership Exchange,
Women in Film and Video and the Center for Women’s Business Research.
Each month,
throughout the school year there will be opportunities for staff, faculty
and supporters of the SOC to hear from industry leaders and media entrepreneurs
in the various arenas of communications. Please note the following calendar
of activities for 2011:
| January
27, 2011 |
Legacy
Day-CEO Sheila Brooks - SRB Communications |
| February
3, 2011 |
Michelle
Bosch – VP & GM - Enterprise Rent A Car |
| March
10, 2011 |
Vera
Katz – Professor Emerita - Dept. of Theatre, HU |
| March
24, 2011 |
Stan Verrett – Anchor, ESPN Sportscenter |
| April
21, 2011 |
Global Visionaries Awards –Honorees: Constance Cannon Frazier
(American Advertising Federation), Kellie Coleman (GlobalHue), Frankie
Hughes (Hughes Capital Management), and Sheila Eldridge (Miles Ahead Entertainment) |
| April
28, 2011 |
A Legacy Tribute: Featuring Tom Burrell - Time Warner
Center, NYC |
About
the School of Communications
The Howard University
School of Communications has produced many outstanding professionals in
communications including: Michelle Miller, correspondent, CBS News; Keisha
N. Brown, senior vice president & general manager, LAGRANT Foundation;
Depelsha McGruder-Thomas, senior vice president, Business Operations &
Strategy, MTV Networks; Genelle Niblack, vice president, Clear Channel Radio
Sales; Constance Cannon Frazier, Chief Operating Officer, American
Advertising Federation (AAF); Fredricka Whitfield, CNN news anchor; Isabel
Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist formerly at The New York Times;
and Lesli Foster, news anchor at WUSA, Channel 9. For more information
on the SOC, call 202-806-7690, or visit the website at http://Communications.howard.edu
The SOC has
become one of the fastest growing schools among Howard University‘s
12 academic schools and colleges. In 2010, PRWeek magazine named the
Department of Journalism as one of the top five in the nation for education
in public relations, ABC News opened a student news bureau on campus this
fall, and SOC students have received White House Correspondents’ Association
Scholarships for four years in a row. In addition, the National Association
of Black Journalists recognized Howard University as the number one JMC
program among HBCU’s and the number one student chapter and recently
senior print major Phillip Lucas as the Student Journalists of the Year.
During the recent
annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
three School of Communications faculty members; Joan Payne, Kay Payne and
Orlando Taylor from the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
were recognized as Diversity Champions for their contributions in the area
of multiculturalism. The speech-language pathology master’s degree
program is among the top –ranked graduate programs in the nation as
cited in U.S.News and World Report’s America’s Best Graduates
Schools, 2010 and the master’s degree SLP program was ranked in the
top third of 230 programs.
The nationally
recognized Martin Luther King, Jr. Forensics Program is housed in the Department
of Communication and Culture, where students learn to compete against the
best collegiate teams in the nation in the areas of mock trial, debate,
and oratorical competitions. For the past three years their teams have competed
annually against the Yale Debate team to an audience of more than 3000 each
year. This year the exhibition debate will take place on the Howard University
campus.
The department
of Radio/TV/Film is one of the largest producers of African American communications
graduates in the country. Within the major, students may choose to specialize
in audio production, film, telecommunications management or television production.
The department’s award-winning faculty members include Peabody award
winners, Emmy award winners and numerous others. Professors in the
department continue to produce nationally and internationally recognized
books, book chapters, scholarly papers, narrative films and documentaries
– all while they maintain their commitment to nurturing the next generation
of media professionals. In addition to external internships, students are
encouraged to become active with various media outlets on campus, including
one of the regions’s top-rated commercial radio stations - WHUR-FM;
PBS affiliate WHUT-TV; student-run WHBC-AM, and the departments’ Internet
talk radio station, glasshouseradio.com.
For more information
on the School of Communications, call 202-806-7690, or visit the website
at http://Communications.howard.edu
About
Howard University
Howard
University is a private, research university that is comprised of 12 schools
and colleges.
Founded
in 1867, students pursue studies in more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate,
graduate and professional
degrees. Since 1998, the University has produced two Rhodes Scholars, a
Truman Scholar, aMarshall
Scholar, 19 Fulbright Scholars and 11 Pickering Fellows. Howard also produces
more on campus African-American Ph.D. recipients than any other university
in the United States. For more information
on Howard University, call 202-238-2330, or visit the University’s
Web site at www.howard.edu |
