The program has excellent students, leadership, and administration. And it has the financial resources to provide more support for graduate students than virtually any other peer program in the country. Thus, students graduating with a mass communication Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina are among the strongest contenders for faculty positions nationally. Public opinion researchers have given their highest award to Professor Philip Meyer, who holds the Knight chair at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Many names are familiar because they appear on the front of books.
Faculty members excel at teaching.
In addition, Professor Mary Alice Shaver was named Advertising Educator of the Year by the Southern Classified Advertising Managers Association. Our faculty members are well respected in their fields. Dr. Blanchard also won the 1996 William C. Lassiter First Amendment Award presented by the North Carolina Press Association. And Professor Chuck Stone received the University of Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. Many of the faculty are involved outside the world of academia.