College Park, Md., August 14, 2007—The people who run the nation’s journalism and mass communication schools are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male—even though about two-thirds of JMC students today are female.
Those findings come from a new survey of JMC administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kunkel is the new president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, and his study was released by ASJMC at its annual meeting over the weekend in Washington.
The purpose of the survey was to take a snapshot of the nation’s JMC administrators and learn more about some of the key issues and pressures they face—among them the growing expectations to raise private funds, adaptation of their schools’ curricula in a digital world, and faculty hiring challenges.
