We are committed to fostering an educational environment where a wide range of perspectives is valued and encouraged. Our goal is to be a leader in educating both students and professionals on the significance of representation in media and in mediated content. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication awarded its inaugural Award for Equality and Opportunity to the Manship School. We were recognized for our comprehensive plan to promote broad representation, fundraising efforts to support all of our student organizations and groups, organized initiatives to recruit a variety of faculty and students, and our ongoing focus on course offerings, faculty research, and service to other universities, journalists, and the public through the research and public engagement.
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- 60% of our faculty members have conducted research on topics related to representation and inclusion.
- We have received four separate grants that focus on issues related to opportunity and representation.
- In 2021, 27% of our students and more than 30% of our faculty came from historically underrepresented groups.
- The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs helped establish the Forum on Media Representation, which includes an extensive bibliographic database of academic and professional journal articles, books, and conference papers on representation issues, with a focus on media, journalism, and communication in both national and international contexts.