BIG NEWS!
The Department of Journalism at UNT has been approved by The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to become The Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism. The Mayborn School, which offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs in journalism, will separate from the College of Arts and Sciences, effective Sept. 1, 2009. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Wendy Wilkins, has appointed Dr. Mitch Land as Interim Dean and is currently looking for a founding dean.
Welcome
to the Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism, the only nationally
accredited professional master’s program in Texas, offering
specialties in print and broadcast news, photojournalism, integrated
marketing communications and publishing.
The Department of Journalism at the University of North Texas has
been a major source of professionals and academics for mass media
since the department’s beginning in 1945. Graduates work throughout
the world for newspapers, news services and magazines, as well as
editors, publishers, bureau chiefs, photographers, writers and professionals
in public relations and advertising.
The journalism program has produced seven Pulitzer Prize winners and many outstanding award winners and professionals in advertising, public relations, news writing-editorial, photojournalism and broadcast news. Since 1969, the department’s news-editorial sequence has been accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications [University of Kansas School of Journalism, Stauffer-Flint Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, telephone (785) 864-3973], a national organization. Since 1986, the entire department has been accredited. The North Texas Daily and its predecessor, the Campus Chat, have earned three regional and six national Pacemaker awards, the last two presented by the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Associated Collegiate Press. The newspaper has also earned All-American honors 86 times, awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the College Media Advisers.
The journalism department’s graduate program built on its
tradition of excellence when it was named, in 1999, the Frank W.
Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism through a generous gift
from the Frank W. & Sue Mayborn Foundation Advise and Consult
Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas Inc. The Mayborn School
offers both master of arts and master of journalism degrees. Graduate
work at the school equips individuals with professional and academic
skills to succeed in the mass media professions and in teaching
journalism. The program’s strength lies in its relevance to
the needs of today’s mass media environment and its opportunities
for research at a variety of levels. Graduate faculty members represent
a diversity of backgrounds and research and professional interests.
About 70 students are actively enrolled.
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