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Title: Interview with Dr. Jinx Broussard and Dr. Masudul Biswas
Identifier: camh-dob-007846
Creator: Daniels, George L., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Broussard, Jinx C. (Jinx Coleman), 1949-, Biswas, Masudul Karim
Topic: Journalism, Diversity in higher education, College students, Black, Diversity in the workplace, Online journalism, Mass media--Social aspects, Education
Dates: 1997, 2021-09-09, 2020-09-09
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Dr. Jinx C. Broussard is a Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication at the University of Southern Louisiana. Dr. Broussard teaches public relations, strategic communications, media history and mass media theory. Broussard was named the 2018 Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The national award recognizes excellence in innovative teaching, mentoring of students and faculty scholarship, and leadership in educational and industry activities. Her research interests include the black press, representations of racial and ethnic minorities, media history, alternative media, crisis communication, public relations strategies and tactics, and the civil rights movement. Broussard is the recipient of the LSU 2019 Rainmaker Award in the category of Senior Scholar in Arts, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences. In the classroom, Dr. Broussard’s students have produced two first-place and one second-place national award-winning public relations campaigns since 2014. As a public relations professional, she was the director of public information for the city of New Orleans and, simultaneously, served as press secretary to Mayor Sidney J. Barthelemy in New Orleans for almost eight years. The interview discusses her childhood as she grew up on a plantation with her parents and siblings and how this motivated her to keep excelling and achieving more and driving her students to do better than they could. She holds a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri, an M.A. in Journalism from Ohio State and a B.S. in English/Secondary Education, from Tuskegee University in Alabama. In 1990, she was named to the Manship School of Mass Communication Hall of Fame. Masudul (Mas) Biswas, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of digital media at Loyola University Maryland’s Communication Department. Before joining Loyola, Biswas was a faculty at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. His broad research interests are media and politics; media and diversity; and web content strategy. Biswas is also site editor and webmaster of Media Diversity Forum. Originally from Bangladesh, Dr. Biswas’s academic and professional interests include strategic use of digital/online media in communication & journalism, content creation for the Web & social media, and diversity in media/communication practices. Biswas teach digital media (and design) and strategic communication courses, mainly geared towards digital media, journalism, and strategic communication students.

Title: Interview with Dr. Laurence Alexander
Identifier: camh-dob-007848
Creator: Daniels, George L., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Alexander, Laurence B.
Topic: Mass media--Social aspects, Diversity in higher education, Education, Journalism
Dates: 2020-09-03
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Dr. Laurence B. Alexander, a nationally recognized scholar and academic leader, has served as Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a public land-grant research HBCU in an urban setting, since 2013. He is a transformational university leader, administrator, distinguished professor, First Amendment scholar, attorney, and journalist. Dr. Alexander spent his early years in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. Raised by a single mother who instilled in him the desire to educate himself, Dr. Alexander benefitted from his mentors at home and in academia to make choices that led him to journalism and then to law school where he continued to remain in touch with news publications, sometimes choosing them over academia and sometimes vice versa but at all times focused on growth and service towards students. Dr. Alexander earned a bachelor's degree from the University of New Orleans, a master's degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Florida, a Juris Doctor from Tulane University, and he earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Florida State University. Alexander has been recognized for his academic leadership as an Arkansas Business Journal Influencer in Education in 2017. He was also selected for inclusion in the inaugural publication of the 200 Most Influential Leaders by Arkansas Business Publishing Group in 2018, and he received additional national recognition as one of the HBCU Campaign Fund’s 10 Most Dominant HBCU Leaders in 2019. He is licensed to practice law in the state of Louisiana, and he is a current member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, and the Education Law Association. He also is a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Title: Interview with Dr. Lucila Vargas
Identifier: camh-dob-007849
Creator: Daniels, George L., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Vargas, Lucila
Topic: Mexican American women, Diversity in higher education, Education
Dates: 2019-07-08
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Dr. Lucila Vargas is a professor emerita at the School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who retired in 2016. She has 30 years of research and teaching experience in communication for social change. She is a Mexican immigrant and a first- generation college graduate who moved to San Antonio from Chihuahua state in Mexico to teach Spanish language and culture at an extension school of National University of Mexico. Although she had that first experience of teaching, she faced significant challenges in the classroom when she assumed her first full-time faculty position at Chapel Hill in 1994, mainly because there were no other Latinas, or other women of color who shared this experience of being a woman of color in front of the classroom. After her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, she taught media in the department of journalism at Bowling Green State University, but it was at University of North Carolina she came across an all-White classroom. She turned to research on diversity in higher education for assistance but found that most of the literature addressed student diversity, was intended for a White, and sometimes male, audience. She found some research on minority faculty members, it ignored the role of social differences other than gender. From then on this became her focus. Dr. Vargas received her master’s in Latin American studies and Ph.D. in Development Communication from the University of Texas at Austin and published her dissertation “Social Justice and Radio Practices, The Social Use of Radio by Ethnic Minorities in Mexico.”

Title: Memo between H. Y. McCowan, C. P. Boner, and W. B. Shipp
Identifier: camh-dob-017001
Creator: McCown, H. Y. (Henry Y.), 1894-1983
Topic: Diversity in higher education, Education
Dates: 1957-06-17
Resource: UT President's Office records
Description: Memorandum exchanged between H.Y. McCown, C. P. Boner and W. B. Shipp concerning the admission and performance of foreign students at the University of Texas.

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