Public Relations Faculty Faculty are known and respected by local practitioners. At EKU, the public relations program is part of the Mass Communications Department which itself is in transition into a newly-consolidated School of Business and Technology. Within the MassComm Department, public relations shares facilities and resources with Journalism and Broadcasting units. A Speech Major will be added to the department as consolidation continues. The entire department has endured life in older, separated buildings but appears to have prevailed in its educational mission.
Membership is somewhat limited by the profile of the student body.
Departmental Chair, Dr. Maureen Everett, chats with one of the department's Board Members. Here's more information about EKU's PR Program. The program also offers a sports information course, and a PR Cooperative Study course, in which students work with companies and organizations to gain hands-on experience. Over 150 majors. Students do projects for real clients as part of the campaigns course.