The early weeks of the spring semester at the School of Communication and Media have highlighted significant initiatives around important public issues. Across the School, there are numerous ongoing activities, tied together by important themes, that we hope\u00a0will resonate throughout the University and throughout the larger region.\u00a0 A principal theme across these activities is community engagement.<\/p>\n
Whether referring to our major “Tracking Christie”<\/a> February event with WNYC on Governor Chris Christie\u2019s presidential campaign and his performance as the state\u2019s top executive or the ongoing projects related to the School\u2019s Inequality Project or the work of the SCM\u2019s Center for Cooperative Media in training journalists across the state, these projects and others highlight a major focus of our school.<\/p>\n The list also includes our Film Screening Series<\/a>, open to the public, and now a cornerstone of the College of the Arts\u2019 project, the Film Institute at Montclair State.\u00a0 It includes our work in building campus radio station WMSC<\/a> as an important source of discussion about University activities while also offering broadcast coverage of Montclair State sports events for students, families, community members and the ÌÇÐÄvlog alumni network.<\/p>\n The common idea revolves around the challenge of engaging with and serving our many communities in significant ways. By creating these programs and initiatives designed to encourage meaningful student participation throughout our programs, the SCM is creating opportunities to make a difference around the University, surrounding towns and throughout the state.\u00a0 Whether that means working for charitable organizations in helping them develop communications-related initiatives, or bringing great filmmakers to our campus to improve the educational and community life of Montclair and surrounding communities, this engagement can take on many forms.<\/p>\n This engagement approach is also a critical part of the ongoing school-wide initiative The Inequality Project<\/a>. This project brings the School together in course work, volunteer activities and in many other ways around economic, social and political issues with a focus on work with important community institutions like the Community FoodBank of New Jersey<\/a> or the Orange Community School Initiative.\u00a0 The umbrella project can include topics like economic and health inequality, gender or racial bias, prison reform, and criminal justice. Our program in December, \u201cJersey Justice\u201d produced in partnership with the ÌÇÐÄvlog Department of Justice Studies, brought significant public attention to crisis in our prison system. Panelists for that public event, which attracted an audience of 300, included former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey.<\/p>\n Our view at the School of Communication and Media is that we are working with our students to give them the skills and background to not just thrive in their careers or in their industries of choice, but to also take those same capabilities and use them in their personal lives.\u00a0 That can mean participating in local civic and political organizations through volunteer work, and through participation in national or local nonprofit groups.\u00a0 Developing an academic understanding of the communication revolution, refining individual communication skills, and learning how to use production tools in digital media, audio production, filmmaking and television all give students the opportunity to participate and contribute to the larger public dialogue. While, of course, there is focus on career skills, in the world we live in, multimedia proficiency or creative use of social media will lead our graduates not only into the professional marketplace but, also, give them the capabilities to be just as successful in their communities. Today\u2019s SCM programs are designed to address both components of our students\u2019 future paths.<\/p>\n Merrill Brown, Dr. David Sanders designed and now coordinates the SCM\u2019s new audio\/sound design program concentration and teaches sound design and audio production for film, television, music and theater.<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n Associate Prof. Roberta Friedman is about to visit Cuba to showcase her new video installation created in conjunction with her video partner, Dan Loewenthal, at the sixth annual International Videoart Festival in Camaguey.<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n Students in SCM vied for a spot among the Super Bowl commercials with a Doritos spot.<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n Senior Catherine Baxter is editor-in-chief of ÌÇÐÄvlog’s student-run newspaper The Montclarion<\/em>. _________________________<\/p>\n Alumna Halley O\u2019Brien’s job is to<\/span> snowboard, travel and make videos.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n Alumna <\/span>Desiree Santiago is working as a PR practitioner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ON THE MOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-communication-and-media-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207803,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176\/revisions\/207803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nPeople Spotlights . . .Faculty, Students, Alumni<\/h2>\n
Faculty Spotlight: Prof. David Sanders<\/em><\/h2>\n
Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Roberta Friedman<\/em><\/h2>\n
A Pitch to be Among Super Bowl Commercials<\/h2>\n
Student Spotlight:<\/em> <\/em>Catherine Baxter – Making Headlines<\/h2>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\nAlumni Spotlight: Halley O’Brien
\n<\/em><\/em><\/h2>\nAlumni Spotlight: Desiree Santiago
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