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The University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business has handed a $100K marketing and communications pact to Eduvantis, the Chicago-based education sector marketing firm of PR vet Tim Westerbeck.
Brown University has kicked off a search for a VP of public affairs and university relations as current VP Marisa Quinn is slated to move into a new role at the Ivy League institution's Watson Institute for International Studies.
Matthew Golden, associate VP for communications at New Jersey Institute of Technology, has moved to Arcadia University outside of Philadelphia as VP for its newly formed university relations unit.
Paula Payton, who succeeded John Doorley as head of the NYU graduate corporate communications & PR sequence in February, will join SmartSports, sports technology firm, in October.
Jerry Lewis, who held top communications posts at the Univ. of Texas at Arlington and Univ. of Miami, is transferring to Emory University in Atlanta to lead communications and public affairs.
Harlan Teller has taken a leave of absence from his top strategic communications slot at FTI Consulting to lead marketing and communications for Northern Illinois University for the next two years.
The University of Florida has registered Chicago agency PR vet Andy Hopson to start up a strategic communication agency as part of its College of Journalism and Communications.
Dan Demeritt, former communications director to Maine Gov. Paul LePage, has moved to the $529M Univ. of Maine System as executive director of public affairs.
Kevin Galvin, a former Boston Globe editor who is senior communications director for Harvard University, is trading Cambridge for Tempe as he takes the top communications post at Arizona State University.
NYU grad program in PR and corporate communications is putting more emphasis on enrolling recent college grads and others starting PR careers as well as those from other countries.
The appointment of Paula Payton as director of Strategic Communication, Marketing and Media Mgmt. programs at New York University, a title that drops "PR" although there is still an M.S. in PR and corp. comms., may herald a new era in this section of NYU.
The NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies has adopted the new name of Strategic Communication, Marketing and Media Management for a department that offers graduate degree programs and noncredit offerings in PR, marketing and graphic communications. Removal is part of trend to discard PR in business/educational worlds. Program founder John Doorley leaves.
The fact that Lady Gaga is on the front cover of the 12th edition of The Practice of Public Relations by Fraser Seitel tells a lot about how marketing PR is practiced these days—hitch your wagon to a celeb.
Pratt Institute, the 126 year-old art, design, fashion and architectural college in Brooklyn, has hired Goodman Media International to bolster its media footprint in New York City.
Jim Weiss, CEO of W2O Group, $62 million firm in healthcare, tech and consumer, told 200 students at San Jose State University Nov. 5 that his firm is looking for grads that have passion, computer and social skills and who “play to win vs. playing not to lose.”
Tenured PR professor at Quinnipiac University who helped develop PRSA's code of ethics moves to Florida International University in Miami as associate dean of research and graduate programs for its school of journalism and mass communications.
The University of Texas at Austin has received a $50M grant from the Moody Foundation to establish the Moody College of Communications, which is the largest endowment received by any U.S. public college for the study of communications.
Dan Huttenlocher today said Cornell Tech is going to shatter the traditional model of universities by actively encouraging engagement between the academic and private sector communities.
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