University Senate Proposed: January 30, 1998

Adopted: ______________

RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM LEADING TO THE DEGREES OF MASTER OF ARTS, MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY, AND DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COMMUNICATIONS

WHEREAS, the growth of the media technologies and communications industries has exerted an increasingly important influence on journalism, law, finance, politics, and culture, and

WHEREAS, the Education Committee has favorably reviewed a proposal from the School of Journalism to establish an interdisciplinary program whose graduates will earn advanced degrees in Communications, and

WHEREAS, the Committee is satisfied that the proposal has been approved by the faculty of the Journalism School, the Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Registrar, the University Librarian, and the Provost,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the University Senate establish a new degree program in Communications, with the proviso that the Education Committee will review the program in three years;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution be forwarded to the Trustees for appropriate action.

Proponent:

Education Committee