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Greetings!
This
has been a fantastic year for the Department of Communication and I'm
grateful to have the opportunity to share with you some of our
activities. I hope that as you read about the accomplishments
of our students and faculty, you are as proud as I am!
As always, we would enjoy hearing from you. If you have news of a
former student, alumni, emeriti faculty or staff member, please let
us know at mbrasted@brockport.edu or (585) 395-2157. We'd love to
hear from you.
Thank you and have a great summer,
Monica Brasted, PhD
Chair, Department of Communication
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Student Accomplishments
 In
September, Amanda Hartman '08 won the inaugural Tim Russert Medal
of Merit. Sponsored by the Buffalo Area Broadcasters, the award
honors the memory of the late longtime host of NBC's Meet the
Press. Amanda is now pursuing her masters at Syracuse
University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and is the
teaching assistant for the new Web journalism class.
Three members of the student newspaper, The Stylus, returned home victorious from the
25th Annual Associated Collegiate Press National College Newspaper
Convention in San Diego, CA.
Amanda Seef,
Nora Hicks and Chris Winkler joined hundreds of other
student reporters from both public and private colleges and
universities. The Stylus captured First Place in the Best of
Show Four-year Weekly Tabloid competition. Last year, The Stylus
took fifth place in the same contest.
In March, five communication students and two faculty toured the ESPN
studios in Bristol, CT at the initiation of ESPN Senior
Director of Production Operations Stacey Fitch ('85) and ESPN
Manager of Production Operations/Intern Coordinator Joe Franco.
Pictured are (l-r back row): Sean Bowerman (current student),
Scott Brooks (current student), Franco, Alicia Sheppard
(current student), Warren Kozireski (faculty), Erik Michael
('08 and current ESPN employee), Dale Budziszewski (current
student). Middle row (l-r): Randal Santillo (current student),
Fitch, Crystal Smith ('07 and ESPN employee). Faculty member Virginia
Orzel is kneeling in front. Not pictured (she was working at
photo time): Brie Michaels ('08 and ESPN employee).
The Brockport Public Relations Club was named BSG 2008-09
Club/Organization of the Year. This award is presented to an
active organization whose leadership positions are voluntary
and that "has demonstrated active involvement through
events, programs and community services engaging the Brockport
community in its endeavors."
Among the club's accomplishments cited at the award
ceremony was the success of its second Sabres Alumni vs.
Brockport Faculty/Staff Basketball Game which raised more than
$800 for the American Cancer Society.
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Honors Thesis available online
 Sean
Bowerman '09 took his College Honors thesis to a new level by
producing a documentary on the College's Constitution Day
celebration - a naturalization ceremony.
For an hour last September, the College Union Ballroom turned into a
federal courtroom as Judge Jonathan Feldman administered the Oath of
Citizenship to 69 new citizens. Bowerman also included stories of
several naturalized citizens, including Director of Television
Services Alex Alexandrov (pictured above).
The documentary premiered at Scholars' Day in April and is now on the
College's American Democracy Project
Web site.
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Faculty accomplishments
Matthew Althouse and Floyd Anderson have
received two top paper awards. "Alembicating Kenneth Burke's
Concept of Recalcitrance," co-authored by Althouse, Anderson and
Brockport alumnus Lawrence J. Prelli '77, was presented in
November at the National Communication Association Convention. A
second paper co-authored by Althouse and Anderson, "Five Fingers
or Six: Is Kenneth Burke's Pentad Actually a Hexad?," was
presented in April at the Eastern Communication Convention in
Philadelphia. The ECA was well represented by Brockport alumni as
evidenced in the photo above!
Also
at ECA, Monica Brasted and Donna Kowal presented
"Defining the Genre: The Rhetoric of Polarization
Revisited" which stemmed from a 1971 study co-authored by Floyd
Anderson and Andrew A. King, professor emeritus at LSU.
Associate Professor Kate Madden, Assistant
Professor Marsha Ducey and department chair Monica Brasted
were among the roughly 100 scholars, educators and journalists from throughout
the country invited to attend the "News Literacy: Setting a
National Agenda" conference at SUNY Stony Brook in March. Ducey
will also present a paper on FCC indecency complaints to the Law and
Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication in August.
And
Donna Kowal will be taking on new responsibilities this fall
as director of College Honors. Having served as associate
director for several years, Donna is excited to be leading these
exceptional students who undertake programs of study in their majors
involving a significant research project.
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New Curriculum
Beginning
in Fall 2009, the Journalism and Broadcasting programs will merge
into one major, recognizing industry convergence requiring practitioners
to create and edit messages across all media: print, broadcast, radio
and the Web. Our students will now concentrate in media production,
electronic/print journalism, public relations or media studies.
And
in Communication Studies, incoming
majors in the fall can choose the public and mediated communication
concentration or the interpersonal and organizational communication
concentration. We have added public relations courses to this
major as electives as well as new advanced level interpersonal
and organizational courses.
To see the new department brochure written by student Samantha
Durfee and others from the PR Club, click here.
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TV Studios go HD!
It's
official! Sub-control and Studio A went digital HD this year
and we officially celebrated in March.
New digital field cameras, studio cameras, server and a
state-of-the-art control room now allow students to produce and edit
high definition projects. New productions include the weekly Eagle's
Nest highlighting sports activities as well as Brockport Campus
News, now seen on Time Warner Cable and Rochester Community
Television. You can see student work here.
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WBSU opens new digital studio
In
December, we unveiled the Warren Kozireski Studio, a new
$35,000 FM digital studio complete with a Wheatstone Evolution series
console. Students named the new space in honor of Koz's 20+
years of dedicated service to the radio station.
(In photo l-r: alumnus Harry Goldberg, BSG
President Kyle Amendola, WBSU student manager Adam King and station
manager Warren Kozireski.)
The station was a national
finalist for Best Sports Play-By-Play in the College Broadcasters,
Inc.(CBI) 2008 National Student Production Award competition. Our
students continued their annual live broadcasts from Rock 'n Roll
Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH and at the Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, NY.
And despite the current economic climate, four members
of last year's class have been hired at least part-time in the field
and two station members from the class of 2009 have already found
radio jobs.
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International journalists visit
Thanks
to the efforts of Kate Madden and the Rochester Area United
Nations, international journalists once again visited our students
and shared insights about covering news. The journalists come
to the US through the United Nation's Reham Al-Ferra Memorial
Journalists' Fellowship Program. We are the only local college on
their itinerary during their brief stay in Rochester. This
year, journalists came from Brazil, Gabon, Israel, Jordan, St. Kitts
and Nevis, Somalia, South Africa and Turkey.
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Congratulations to our 2009 graduates!
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