{"id":30615,"date":"2020-03-06T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=30615"},"modified":"2020-03-07T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:32:45","slug":"utc-communication-school-achieves-an-accreditation-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/utc-communication-school-achieves-an-accreditation-first\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC communication school achieves an accreditation first"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30619\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"1280\" data-attachment-id=\"30619\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/utc-communication-school-achieves-an-accreditation-first\/mcghee-felicia-19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"850,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1558537040&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"McGhee-Felicia-19\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-680x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-30619\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19.jpg 850w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-768x1157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-1020x1536.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-580x874.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-610x919.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/McGhee-Felicia-19-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia McGhee, interim head of the Department of Communication<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are good days for the Department of Communication within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>In December, UTC students made an unprecedented seventh place showing among competitors from 75 universities across the country when the winners of the prestigious national Hearst Photo One News and Features contest winners were revealed.<\/p>\n<p>A few months earlier in 2019, UTC students received eight awards in the annual Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors competition, including four first-place finishes, more than any other competing university and among 300 total entries.<\/p>\n<p>And in February, the Department of Communication hosted a re-accreditation site visit that marked a milestone. For the first time since the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC)\u00a0 gave its first seal of approval to the UTC communication school in 1996, ACEJMC reviewers found no deficiencies during a site visit as part of the re-accreditation process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelief, that\u2019s what I felt most when I learned we had no deficiencies to address\u201d said Felicia McGhee, who, as interim head of the department since 2018, has led the re-accreditation process.<\/p>\n<p>ACEJMC\u00a0accredits programs in journalism and mass communication at\u00a0colleges and\u00a0universities\u00a0in the United States, Puerto Rico and outside the country. Currently, 117\u00a0programs are accredited\u00a0by ACEJMC: 112 with full\u00a0accreditation\u00a0status and five with provisional status. Once full accreditation is achieved, a re-accreditation review must follow every six years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, McGhee said, reviewers gave a deficiency to the program\u2019s facilities: \u201cThat was based on our building, Frist Hall. Then the Metro Annex, next door, was renovated, so when we got the portion of Metro Annex with the new (TV) studio and new classroom, we were found in compliance on facilities in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 2014 re-accreditation, however, a deficiency was cited for program assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they like to see is that the unit is doing an assessment throughout the year, all six years since the last re-accreditation,\u201d McGhee said. \u201cWhat\u2019s going well. What\u2019s not going well. Do we need to make changes? If we find that we do, how do we close the loop? ACEJMC wants you to close the loop, and what happened in 2014 was that there was some assessment but no closing the loop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to that, when McGhee stepped in as interim department head in 2018, she kicked off a departmental self-assessment that began with reading all 91 senior seminar papers written by students that year. The department surveyed students and alumni and sought feedback from on-site supervisors of student internships\u2014all toward determining whether graduates were being equipped with skills and knowledge most important and effective to the profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing all of that, we came up with a new curriculum, a new proposal for the bachelor of science,\u201d McGhee said. Thus far, the proposal has been blessed by the College of Arts and Sciences curriculum committee. Assuming the remaining steps are cleared, the new curriculum could be implemented in fall 2021, at the earliest. Working out details with course developing, scheduling and staffing takes time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the proposed new curriculum and its approval progress to date satisfied the assessment criterion for re-accreditation. A hard-hat tour of renovations in progress in the former Lupton Library\u2014where the department is to relocate in summer\u2014was McGhee\u2019s key to ensuring no repeat of a facilities deficiency.<\/p>\n<p>She goes before the ACEJMC accrediting council to answer its questions this month, then the full ACEJMC organization votes on re-accreditation in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a comms major, you really want to go to an accredited program because, not only are they going to teach you theory, they\u2019re teaching you practical skills,\u201d McGhee said. \u201cIt means we are going to do everything we possibly can to prepare you for success in the field, and it means you will be ready when it\u2019s time to enter the job market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are good days for the Department of Communication within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. 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