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New program added to School of Arts and Communication
By Kelli Plasket
Issue date: 10/31/07 Section: News
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The decision to move the department of Communication Studies, formerly located in the School of Culture and Society, and to rename the school began around two years ago, Susan Ryan, chair of the department of Communication Studies, said. Jim Lentini, former dean of Art, Media and Music, contacted Ryan over the summer about moving the department.
"That became a very intriguing prospect for our department," Ryan said. "To move the entire department and to have our name in the school seemed like it would also give us greater growth potential."
"There was some thought that went into that name," Tara Pavlovsky, dean of the library and interim dean of the School of Arts and Communication, said regarding the renaming of the School of Arts and Communication. The "communication" part was a request of the department of Communication Studies, he said, a decision that he supported.
"Did I want to have the School of Art, Music, IMM and Communication? No," Pavlovsky said. "But the 'Arts and Communication' to show that there are elements of this field of communication studies that extend well beyond what might be termed the arts, I have no problem with that."
The department of Communication Studies' switch to a new school did not warrant any physical location changes.
"Everything is staying where it is, and that was one of the selling points. Nobody wanted to move, and obviously many of our facilities are here (in Kendall Hall)," Ryan said.
The reshuffling of the department of Communication Studies to a different school does bring together the previously split facilities of Kendall Hall under one school, Pavlovsky said.
The performance facilities in Kendall, including the main stage and the Don Evans Black Box Theater, formerly fell under the jurisdiction of the dean of the former School of Art, Media and Music. Meanwhile, the radio station, television studios and offices, through the department of Communication Studies, were under the dean of the School of Culture and Society, Pavlovsky said. Now, all these facilities fall under the School of Arts and Communication.
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