The $$$ about which you've heard was a grant given to the American Studies
department to put together a program in journalism. It's "soft money" from
the Knight [newspapers] Foundation. Presently AS is funding visiting
instructors on one-year appointments and summer workshops. I'm certain
that there hope is for permanent funding. If you want more information,
you could contact Robert Schmuhl, Chair of AS (Robert.P.Schmuhl.1@nd.edu).
This was well before my time, but apparently both journalism and television
studies have gone back and forth between COTH (or pre-COTH) and American
Studies.
Hope this is enlightening.
--Don Crafton
At 12:31 PM 12/4/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Can you give us an idea of what is going on in the COTH major. What
>courses have been added or deleted. I have heard that there has been a
>major donation of $$$ to resurrect the journalism program.
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>Len Clark
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