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degree program. The Communication major offers students strong foundations for careers in Journalism, Public Relations, Television and Cinema, Theatre, and Communication Studies—any field in which ethical and effective practices in writing, speaking, performing, digital production, and critical thinking are desired.
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Congratulations to Augusta University December 2020 Communication graduate Sam Turner, who took a position at Fox 54 starting March 8. Joining her at the station this week is Ravyn Chatmon, who was the AU Communication student assistant for nearly three years. Already at Fox 54 are AU COMM alums Ceara Hester, Megan Johnson and Cynthia Panzella. Way to go, Jaguars!
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Sea Stachura is a radio-podcasting journalist (M.A. in journalism from Missouri) who teaches audio production and creative writing at the Jessye Norman School of the Arts in Augusta. Last summer, she first broadcast her dissection of the 1970 Augusta Riot on GPB and then NPR. "Shots in the Back" is a first-rate documentary of an event that Augustans seem to have forgotten but should never forgot. Dr. David Bulla, chair of Communication at Augusta University, talked to Stachura about the making of the podcast on the second Episode of "The Research Report." Click on the link above please.
Augusta University student De'Ajia Fripp (R) discusses story telling with Communication Lecturer Amber Routh during a recent Public Speaking class at AU. (photo by David W. Bulla)
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Augusta University’s communications faculty is marking milestones. Drs. Debbie van Tuyll and David Bulla recently published informative, thought-provoking books.
Attorney David E. Hudson will be the guest speaker today at 5:30 p.m. for the first in a series of talks on the First Amendment. Mr. Hudson is a media law expert who works for Hull Barrett Attorneys in Augusta. The Department of Communication and the Office of Civic Engagement at Augusta University are the host of the First Amendment Series at AU. The logon URL for today's event is:
http://bit.ly/3ihATXg
Students and faculty at Augusta University are urged to tune in on Thursday, Jan. 28, at 5:30 p.m. on MS Teams for the First Amendment Series. Thursday's speaker is David E. Hudson, an Augusta attorney and First Amendment expert. Here is the URL: http://bit.ly/3ihATXg
New AU Communication alumna Morgan Quattlebaum shows the professional world who she is through her E-portfolio, completed in Dr. Debbie van Tuyll's Capstone Seminar course:
https://morganquattlebaum.weebly.com
Dr. David Bulla, chair of the Department of Communication at Augusta University, recently appeared on C-SPAN3.
The Department of Communication at Augusta University's Pamplin College hopes you have had a joyful, healthy, and restful winter break. Happy New Year to you all. We are looking forward to going into 2021 with you. Go Jaguars!
St. Julian Cox (below) was one of 26 Communication majors who graduated from AU on Dec. 11. Earning summa cm laude honors among COMM graduating seniors were Rachel V. Culling and Brett Swain; magna cm laude went to Grace Adams and Casey Combs; and cm laude to Cameron Miller and Bri Stanley Saunders. Congratulations to all of our new alums. Way to go! And good luck in all of your future endeavors.
Taylor Ferguson (R) receives her diploma from Augusta University at Fall Commencement exercises at James Brown Arena. AU President Brooks Keel congratulates Ferguson, who majored in Communication. Congratulations! (photo by David W. Bulla)
Rachel Culling will graduate with her degree in Communication from Augusta University today. Rachel says: "Here at Augusta University, I’ve grown immensely as a professional, performer, writer and leader. I’ve developed strengths and skills I didn’t know I was capable of. But the best part of the experience was the community. To the professors and peers that I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to work alongside: Thank you!"
Debra van Tuyll and David Bulla, professors of communication at Augusta University, were named recipients of national research awards at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s 28th Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression.
Here is the third winner from the PSA competition this fall from the Georgia Cancer Center. This PSA, titled "Let Your Future Live," is by Augusta University Communication student Lexie Wolfgong. The competition was organized by the Georgia Cancer Center and the AU Audiovisual Media Production class, taught by Arthur Takahashi. A panel of judges with expertise in communication, video production, public relations and public health selected this PSA as the winner of the"Storytelling & Storyline Originality" category:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xOod64Aj6s&feature=youtu.be
This PSA was produced by Lexie Wolfgong for an experiential learning competition organized by the Georgia Cancer Center and the COMM 3030 - Audiovisual Media...
Here is a poster about media literacy from the COMM 2010A class with Rachel Balducci this semester. The posters are currently on display in the Allgood Hall East corridor (the side where the Communication professors' offices are). If you are on campus, come take a look.
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. The Dept. of Communication at Augusta University thanks you for your service to the nation.
Here is another of the Georgia Cancer Center PSA award winners. Mary Cashin, a Communication senior, made this video titled "Don't Take Like for Granted." Mary's PSA was the winner of the "Storytelling & Storyline Originality" category. The competition was organized by the Georgia Cancer Center and the COMM 3030 (Audiovisual Media Production) course. Congratulations, Mary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkwIklQUDlY&feature=youtu.be
This PSA was produced by Mary Cashin for an experiential learning competition organized by the Georgia Cancer Center and the COMM 3030 - Audiovisual Media Pr...
Sam Turner's "It Wasn't Worth It" was the best overall video in the PSA video competition organized by the Georgia Cancer Center and the Audiovisual Media Production course at Augusta University. A panel of judges with expertise in communication, video production, public relations and public health selected this PSA as the best of the group. Congratulations Sam, who is a senior. Here is the video: category.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-CnNX-s3k&feature=youtu.be
This PSA was produced by Sam Turner for an experiential learning competition organized by the Georgia Cancer Center and the COMM 3030 - Audiovisual Media Pro...
Congratulations to COMM major Carlos Rodriguez for his top-10 finish at the North Georgia Invite on Saturday:
https://aug.prestosports.com/sports/mxc/2020-21/releases/20201101f356vr?fbclid=IwAR0QA7DS6oyNhzZ0Ws_A8_U55K007ncwkrw0Oe8ALnRhv1ecsBOY6zFFyE0
Augusta Cards Three Top Ten Finishes at PBC Preview
The Research Report podcast: Season 1, Episode 1. Professor David Bulla talks with Professor Debbie van Tuyll about her latest book, "Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press
1784–1963" from Syracuse University Press. Dr. van Tuyll won the Sidney Kobre Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Journalism Historians Association in 2019: https://ia601407.us.archive.org/11/items/the-research-report-s-1-e-1-dvt-draft/The_Research_Report_S1_E1_DVT_Draft.mp3 (
In his podcast "Think on This," Dr. Will Bryant talks to folks in the Augusta community about their lives and their worlds. Here is Season 2, Episode 3 of the show, a production of the Augusta University Department of Communication. Lauren Salsman is the producer:
https://soundcloud.com/augusta-university/think-on-this-season-2-episode-3
Kim Vickers is a recent graduate of the Communication program at Augusta University. Here was the E-portfolio that she completed in our Capstone Seminar. Kim now works at WJBF TV as a reporter: https://kimvickers.weebly.com
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On the latest episode of "Think on This," Dr. Will Bryant interviews Trish Elsie, who is a high energy professional with successful experience in municipal government programming and non-profit management, development and fundraising. She is specialized in community and economic development, disaster relief, project management and residential construction. Trish graduated from the United Nations-mandated, University for Peace in Costa Rica in June 2018 with her Master's degree in Responsible Management and Sustainable Economic Development. Here is the link:
https://soundcloud.com/augusta-university/think-on-this-season-2-episode-2
This week’s QuickJag episode features Augusta University alumna April Henry King, a communication graduate turned artist after realizing her love and talent for painting.
Dr. Will Bryant opens up Season 2 of "Think on This." Here is the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/augusta-university/think-on-this-season-1-episode-7
Hannah D'Arco, a senior Communication major and TV lab assistant at Augusta University, shows off her cool face mask on the last Friday in August. She made it herself.
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Screenshot taken of email sent to students. By Haley Knight |Editor-in-Chief Augusta University administration has sent an email stating that students will no longer be receiving fall break in Fall…
Here is an E-portfolio from recent Augusta University Communication graduate Mary Will Showman:
https://mwshowman.weebly.com
Congratulations to Josh Epps, who just graduated from Augusta University with a degree in Communication. Way to go, Josh! He says the plan is to move to Aiken and he hopes to land a job at SRS. More importantly, "I’ll be getting married in May and my fiancée may start pursuing a medical related graduate degree with AU in Fall 2021." Good luck, Josh.
The faculty and staff of the Augusta University Department of Communication commend Principal Gabe Carmona of North Paulding High School for his decision to withdraw the suspension of two students who had posted pictures of packed hallways and maskless students to their social media accounts. We remain concerned, however, about the dangerous precedent Carmona set with his original decision to punish any negative comments or revealing photos that students post about the school or its opening procedures this fall. Such threats have a chilling effect on free speech, which is essential to support American self-government and democracy.
We also commend Hannah Watters and her classmate for their service to their community. While neither is a professional journalist, their actions are those of the ever-growing number of citizen journalists whose coverage of their communities in blogs and on social media is helping to fill in the gaps caused by the loss of so many local newspapers in the past decades.
The two students were exercising rights United States Supreme Court recognized as long ago as 1969 (Tinker v. Des Moines): that students do not shed their First Amendment Rights when they cross the threshold into school. Though the Court gave school officials some control over content of student publications in 1988, that is not what happened in the North Paulding case. Watters and her classmate published their pictures in their personal social media accounts. Further, Principal Carmona’s decision only to punish negative comments is capricious and discriminatory. Students who post positive statements or photographs are seemingly exempt from punishment, despite a school rule that prohibits use of cell phones or posting to social media on school grounds.
The students were providing information about an issue of extreme public interest—the safety of students as they return to school. Watters’s picture showing a school hallway over-crowded with mostly mask-less students provided important intelligence about the school to the community. This was especially important given that several members of the school football team have tested positive for the corona virus, as has at least one staff member.
More than 2,000 students are enrolled at North Paulding County High School. Each of those students has a First Amendment right to comment on the conditions of the school, including conditions that effect the health and safety of those who work and study there. Local school officials, as well as those at the state and federal levels, should pledge themselves to protecting, not violating, students’ rights to freedom of expression.
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Dr. Pam Hayward's Small Group Communication class recently did a Mastermind activity. Here is the class video about that event.
Here's a short video about "The Little Prince," our MainStage play last Spring. Adjunct prof Todd Bennett created it as a model for the kind of mini-documentary that students in The Agency will produce to promote Theatre AUG each semester. Professor Bennett will be adding student interviews to this video in the coming weeks, and we'll add it to our department website for all to see. Enjoy!
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