Marquette University Offers Communication Workshops for Minority Students

Released:4/14/04

Marquette University 's College of Communication will offer its Urban Journalism and Communication Exploration workshops this summer for high school minority students. Both workshops are residential and are free of cost to the students who are selected. Students may apply to one or both workshops.

The Urbran Journalism workshop to be held June 20- July 2 immerses students in writing, photography and page design. Editors, reporters and photographers from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin Black Media Association will join Marquette faculty and students for this workshop. The Urban Journalism workshop has been offered since the summer of 1986.

Communication Exploration to be held July 6-9 offers students the opportunity to work with area professionals from the fields of advertising and public relations, broadcast communication and communication studies to design and present a communication campaign around a relevant and controversial issue facing today's youth. Working in teams throughout the workshop, students will learn about and implement advertising and public relations strategies to further their message, and present their campaigns on camera in Marquette 's Studio 7. Volunteers from the advertising and public relations community will work with Marquette faculty and students in Communication Exploration. The Communication Exploration workshop is currently in its third year.

“This is a great learning experience for high school students interested communication as a career goal,” said Sheena Carey, Communication Exploration workshop coordinator. “Not only will students live and breathe a variety of communication disciplines, this workshop provides the perfect context for developing and honing presentation skills so necessary to professional success.”

In cooperation with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, Wisconsin Black Media Association and Marquette 's College of Communication , both workshops meet the communication industry's growing demand for communicators from diverse backgrounds.

"The need for minority communicators has never been stronger. Newsrooms and agencies around the country are looking for minority communicators to reach a multicultural audience," said Rose Richard, workshop director. "Managers realize that hiring minorities makes good business sense."

The application deadline is May 7 or until the workshops are full.

Students and parents can request applications and get information from Rose Richard at 414-288-3448, Rose.Richard@Marquette.edu , or Sheena Carey at 414-288-7026, Sheena.Carey@Marquette.edu ; or visit the College of Communication website at www.marquette.edu/comm.