Accreditation and Affiliations
Accreditation
The Communication Department voluntarily aligns itself with standards of the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the official body evaluating professional programs for students in newspaper and magazine journalism, advertising and public relations, radio and television broadcasting, photojournalism and related fields. The department received provisional accreditation in May 2008, becoming the only school in SUNY to be accredited by ACEJMC
- News Release
- What Accredation Means to Students
- Accreditation Overview
- Graduation Requirements related to accreditation
- How You Can Help
- ACEJMC Homepage
Affiliations
Departmental Memberships. The Communication Department is an institutional member of the following organizations:
- Broadcast Education Association
- National Communication Association
Individual Memberships. Faculty members are affiliated with the following national professional organizations:
- American Copy Editors Society
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- Broadcast Education Association
- Coalition for Non-Commercial Media
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- National Association of Broadcasters
- National Communication Association
- National Writers Union
- Native American Journalists Association
- Public Relations Society of America
- Society for Professional Journalists
- Union of Democratic Communications
- Unity: Journalists of Color
- Writers Guild of America-East