| Show Communications program named one of country's best Jeren W. W Canning Globe Weekly News Mass Communications program was named as one of the top 20 programs in inthe inthe inthe the country In the June 20 2005 issue of Community College Weekly the magazine ranked two- two and year four-year colleges across the country by the number of Associates Degree Graduates each year ranked as having the 19 most graduates graduates graduates ates in the Mass Communications depart depart- ment With a graduation rate increase of percent between the years 2003 2002 and 2004 2003 has the second highest V I Mass Communications graduate growth rate in the country I believe we would be ranked even higher if those of our graduates who are listed as General Studies were also included said Randal Chase in an e I 1 have no doubt that if those students were included we would be in the top 5 5 Many students at choose a degree in General Studies rather than a Communications degree due to transfer problems with the University of Utah Communications Continued on Page 4 V 11 Continued from front one has the best t 1 r I setups j for r a department with all types of media all in one building and the ability to get the hands on experience in your first year Steve Lee said At a year four-year school most students dont don't get the hands handson on training they need until their junior or senior years At students can work for the different parts of the Student Media Center their first fust semester at the school Along the same lines some year four-year schools the parts of the student media are separate from each other where as at Globe News Globe Radia and Globe Newspaper aas as I others I are 1 all Judging by the numbers for forthe forthe forthe the years of 2004 2003 and sand 2005 2004 the graduation rate is even higher We should be a top 10 program next year Chase said At the University of Utah I didn't get to do anything anything anything any any- thing hands on until the end of my junior year and even then I only was able to do a little work Jodee Taylor said |
