On Friday, April 20, Peyton Manning (BA / CS ’97 and 2007 recipient of CCI’s Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award) returned to Knoxville to be the keynote speaker at a banquet celebrating the successful conclusion of the Campaign for Tennessee. As part of his return to campus, Manning stopped by the College of Communication and Information to visit with CCI Dean Mike Wirth and School of Communication Studies Director John Haas and had his picture taken in the Peyton Manning Classroom. + read more
Comm Studies Makes the Grade
A successful Academic Program Review (APR) of CCI’s School of Communication Studies (CS) was completed during the 2012 spring semester. The team that reviewed the communication studies program was composed of faculty members from the University of Illinois, the University of Kentucky and UT Knoxville. The highly positive review report was a testament to the hard work that members of the communication studies faculty and staff have put into building the program over the last decade and in prior years. + read more
3 Cheers for 3 CCI Honorees
Three CCI professors recently received exceptional honors. + read more
New Faculty Join CCI
As of August 2012, two outstanding new faculty members have been added to CCI’s ranks. Abbey Levenshus joins AdvPR and Jonathan Pettigrew joins CS. + read more
CCI Faculty Members Receive Promotions
Three CCI faculty members were recently promoted. Beth Avery (AdvPR), Lisa Gary (JEM), and Virginia Kupritz (CS). + read more
CICS Receives IMLS and Sloan Foundation Grants
The College of Communication and Information’s Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) recently received three new grants – two from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and one from the Sloan Foundation. + read more
The Tombras Group in the Spotlight
Charles “Charlie” Tombras II (BS / Adv. ’64) and his son, Charles “Dooley” Tombras III (BS / English ’97), were recently featured in a Knoxville News Sentinel story, “Ad man Charlie Tombras meets the challenge.” + read more
5 Things to Know about Video Production
JEM Associate Professor and documentarian Bob Legg discusses 5 things to keep in mind the next time you break out the camera to produce a piece of video footage. Legg teaches both introductory and advanced video production classes. He also leads a study abroad class to Cyprus every summer. + read more
Continuing Priorities
Faculty support including faculty chairs and professorships
Scholarships/fellowships
A diversity program endowment
Support study abroad/ internationalization programs
October 31 – November 4, SIS 40th Anniversary Week
November 3, CCI Homecoming Open House
November 4 – 8, JEM Murrow Program
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SO, WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE OF SCOOP?
“In Perfect Harmony – Celebrating its second annual Diversity and Inclusion Week, CCI reminds students of the quiet power of diversity and resounds that if we all sing the same note, there will be no song.
Students occupy nearly every seat in the College of Communications Auditorium, and all eyes and ears tuned to Nadeem Siddiq, a member of the Muslim Community of Knoxville’s Dawah (Outreach) Committee, as he calmly shares his thoughts about cultural differences. Siddiq’s soft-spoken voice resonates with worldly wisdom, as if he’s seen it all. “In the moment of failure, be aware of the weaknesses of the heart… Your awareness of that moment will help you transcend it. Turn tolerance into something greater by understanding choices that you make,” he says.” + read more
