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Ellen
Hume, Director
Ellen Hume is a former White House reporter for the Wall Street
Journal, former executive director of the Shorenstein Center
on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, and former
director of PBS’s Democracy Project. Starting in 2003,
she began teaching at UMB in media and communication studies.
She has an extensive background in journalism at the local,
national and international levels, as well as a 15-year career
in teaching and media analysis. Hume, an experienced national
television commentator, appears frequently as a media analyst
and trains journalists in American and foreign newsrooms for
the Committee of Concerned Journalists and the U.S. Department
of State. Hume’s recent work is on her website, www.ellenhume.com.
Mark
Schlesinger, Academic Advisor
Professor Mark Schlesinger, a veteran UMB teacher and administrator
who heads UMB’s Communication Studies Program, took over
the Communication Certificate Program in 1996 and transformed
it into a robust liberal arts minor. With a background in the
study of critical thinking, problem solving behaviors, management
communication, and information technology, he has been a leader
in the incorporation of information technology, both as a study
topic and as applications for teaching and learning. Schlesinger
has pioneered distance learning efforts in the University of
Massachusetts System, using both online and teleconferencing
methods to reach communication and journalism students at the
Amherst and Lowell campuses. He received an award for “innovative
excellence in teaching, learning and technology” at the
2001 Annual Conference on College Teaching and Learning. |
