[3] Rae O. Weimer, the former managing editor at the New York City daily newspaper PM, began teaching in the Department of Journalism in 1949.

From 1976 to 1994, Ralph Lowenstein served as dean and carried out the digital transformation of the college.

Hub Brown was an associate dean and professor at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

The first of its kind in the nation, the Center studies, tests, and helps organizations apply behavioral, cognitive, and social science to create strategic communication designed to achieve positive social change.

It also partners with a number of organizations to help them create more effective communications strategies to drive positive social change.

In addition, The Center develops workshops to share research with social change leaders and scientists to help them develop better communication strategies, and it hosts frank, an annual conference dedicated to public interest communications.

The endowment was used to create a curriculum in public interest communications, and to mentor and advise students who plan to build careers in the field.

[20] ABC News opened a "mini-bureau" at the College of Journalism and Communications in September 2008.