Students launch Campus Lifeline

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among college students. Yet, it remains a taboo subject at many universities, underreported and undiscussed. Universities are not required to report the number of suicides or suicide attempts on their campuses. Student media outlets often decline to identify student suicides as such, leaving campus communities to speculate. Instead of examining suicide as a societal problem, student suicides are regarded as private tragedies.

During the Spring 2013 semester, 21 students from JMC and the School of Digital Science, all members of the Web Programming for Multimedia Journalism course, examined the complex issue of college suicide on the website Campus Lifeline: A Report on College Suicide. Through original, in-depth articles

Kent State's Bateman Blue team places 2nd in National PR Competition

Fantastic breaking news: A team of our PR students has placed second in the Public Relations Student Society of America's national and highly competitive Bateman Award case study competition on anti-bullying. Eighty university teams entered the competition; 68 submitted casebooks in March; and our team advanced over 65 of these schools to the final round, eventually winning second place. Amazing work!

We congratulate all PR students who entered this prestigious competition and especially members of our nationally ranked "Bateman Blue" team, all of them senior PR majors: Kirsten Bowers, Wezley Garlick, Mary Kate Garvey, Caitlin Potts, and Lyndsey Sager. We also thank and congratulate their faculty adviser, Professor Tim Roberts, and their professional adviser, Erin Orsini, a 2012 KSU PR grad who works at True Digital Strategies.

Scholarship and Award Ceremony achieves new record

JMC gains two new endowed scholarships

Fifty-one students won a record-setting $64,000 in endowed scholarships and gifts and were honored at JMC’s annual Scholarship and Awards Ceremony during Student Success Week.

JMC celebrates 2013 journalism honor society inductees

Twenty juniors and seniors were inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA), the national honor society for journalism and mass communication, and a senior electronic media major was honored as JMC’s top scholar at a ceremony held during Student Success Week.

Celebrating JMC’s nationally award-winning year

JMC is completing its most successful year ever in national journalism and communication competitions, and students who earned national recognition were honored at an award ceremony on Tuesday evening, as part of Student Success Week.

First CCI JobExpo draws crowds and kudos

Seventy-three CCI students. Fifty recruiters from 25 companies. One room, one afternoon. Hundreds of connections. These were the vital statistics of CCI’s JobExpo2013 – Kent State’s first job and internship fair specifically for juniors and seniors from every undergraduate degree program in COMM, JMC and VCD. JobExpo2013, held on April 26 at The Ritz-Carlton in Cleveland, attracted an impressive array of regional employers, including national advertising agencies, integrated marketing communication agencies, TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, healthcare insurers, banks, national corporations, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.