CIME OBJECTIVES:

The Center for International Media Education seeks to foster proliferation and understanding of communication through goals that reflect education, scholarly research and service provided for media professionals globally. Specifically, CIME proposes to:

• Continue assisting the Department, College and University in achieving the strategic goal of internationalizing graduate and undergraduate teaching and curriculum
• Position the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) as the premiere professional educational organization linking communication faculty and students in the U.S. and the Near East.
• Develop a new professional educational organization, the China Initiative, linking communication faculty and students in the U.S. and China.
• Strengthen relationships between communication educators and media professionals to develop analytical journalism.
• Advance international and intercultural educational cooperation through formal and informal citizen exchanges and distance learning
• Expand international networking among media educators, media professionals, and affiliated organizations
• Assist the development of professional journalistic techniques and
professional responsibility through funded professional workshops, which have gained additional recognition in the wake of 9/11
• Achieve College and Senate approval for research status for the center during the next five years by expanding the center’s current service and teaching mission into the scholarly arena
• Support the publication of global media research through the advancement of two academic publications: the “Atlanta Review of Journalism History” and “The Journal of Middle East Media.”