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Forthcoming Events:

CSUSB MA in Communication Info Session 18th March 2025
Master's in Communication Studies Students, Meet Your Interim Graduate Program Coordinators
Tuesday, March 18th from 1-2PM

Please join us for an informal zoom meet and greet for all current Communication Studies master's students.
Dr. Popescu, Dr. Mazumdar, and Dr. Alvarado will introduce themselves and explain how coordinator responsibilities are distributed among the faculty.

This is an excellent opportunity to:
- Introduce yourself to the program coordinators
- Ask questions about your progress in the program
- Get clarity on program requirements and expectations

Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/85479382615
Meeting ID: 854 7938 2615

Solutions Journalism (18th Mar, 1pm, SMSU South Room 215) – CSUSB Social Justice Summit – 17th – 20th March, 2025


Dr. Thomas ‘T.C.’ Corrigan, Department of Communication & Media at CSUSB, is organizing a panel on Solutions Journalism that will be featured as part of next week’s CSUSB Social Justice Summit.

The CSUSB Social Justice Summit is taking place from Monday 3/17 to Thursday 3/20.

This year’s theme is, “From Hashtags to Action: Turning Online Momentum into Real-World Impact.”

CSUSB Social Justice Summit 17-20 March 2025
 

 

More on the Summit here.

The Solutions Journalism panel will be on Tuesday, March 18, from noon to 1 pm in SMSU South Room 215. I hope you’ll join us if you’re available, and please invite your students!

Attendees can register here.

The panel will feature the following area journalists and media professionals:

  • Alicia Ramirez, Founder and Publisher, The Riverside Record
  • Candice Mays, Project Director, Mapping Black California
  • Christopher Salazar, Reporter, The Frontline Observer
  • Lacey Kendall, CSUSB Lecturer & Host of Education Insight
  • Madison Aument, Reporter, KVCR 91.9


Here is a description of the panel:

Traditional journalism has tended to focus on social problems, such as crime and corruption. Solutions journalism, by contrast, interrogates the root causes of social problems, and it uses rigorous journalistic techniques to report on the efforts that are being undertaken address those problems, including what’s worked, what hasn’t, and why. In doing so, solutions journalism is a vital tool for empowering local communities and advancing social justice.

In this conversation, CSUSB faculty, students, and community members will meet local publishers, broadcasters, and journalists who are using both traditional and digital media to produce solutions-oriented journalism that enlightens and empowers local communities. Panelists will discuss their outlet’s solutions journalism and its impact; how they interface with government, corporate, and community groups; and how they navigate (supposed) tensions between journalistic objectivity and social activism. Faculty, students, and community members will come away with a broader understanding of what digital journalism is and can do, and they will be empowered to engage in and with solutions journalism as a means of advancing social, racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice.

The panel is a project of CSUSB’s Local Journalism Partnerships Initiative, which fosters news-academic collaborations to support high quality journalism in California’s Inland Empire. The initiative is supported by the CSUSB’s Catalytic Investment on Research and Innovation Seed (CiRIS) grant and the Office of Community Engagement’s Establishing Community Partnerships grant.

 


CSUSB MA in Communication Info Session 28th March 2025
CSUSB COMM Master’s Program, Zoom Informational
The Master of Arts in Communication Studies program at California State University, San Bernardino is now accepting applications for Fall 2025 admission.

Join our Zoom information session on Friday, March 28th from 1-2PM to:
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·       Learn about our program curriculum and application process
·       Meet our graduate coordinators
·       Explore competitive funding opportunities, including:

o   Graduate Associateships
o   The Grace Lavern Fellowship Award
o   Employment at The Speaking Center

·       Discover career opportunities for graduates of our program

Come learn how our MA program can advance your academic and professional goals!

Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/88605526702
Meeting ID: 886 0552 6702

 

 

Past Events:

Yotie Film Club "Dreams to Screens" Showcase 12th March 2025
CSUSB Yotie Film Club: "Dreams To Screens" Showcase Event - Wednesday March 12th, 4pm-7pm - CSUSB SMSU South Theatre Room 107 - ALL WELCOME!!!

We are delighted to announce the first CSUSB Yotie Film Club event, "Dreams To Screens!", which is taking place next week:

WHAT: "Dreams to Screens!" short film showcase
WHEN: Wednesday March 12th, 2025, 4pm-7pm
WHERE: SMSU South Theatre Room 107, CSUSB, 5500 University Pkwy, San Bernardino, CA 92407
WHO: presented by our amazing CSUSB Yotie Film Club
YOU: ALL WELCOME!!!
NB: (Parking fees may apply)

Dreams To Screens! is a student film showcase, showing Yotie Film Club's progression since the beginning of Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. We are extremely excited share our films and show our ever-growing talents to our peers, mentors and faculty, and the wider community in our region!