Cle Cousins, an instructor in the Department of Mass Communication at 麻豆社区 Pembroke, has been selected as a faculty fellow of the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, housed at Florida International University.
Cousins is a former TV and newspaper reporter who teaches courses in writing and broadcasting at 麻豆社区P and serves as coordinator of internships. She is completing her dissertation in communication at Regent University.
The Kopenhaver Center was founded in 2012 to mentor successive generations of young scholars and professionals as they build careers in mass communication and to develop leaders and visionaries who can make a difference in their communities or professions.
As a member of the 2022 cohort, Cousins attended the 鈥淲omen Faculty Moving Forward鈥 workshop at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference on August 2 in Detroit, Mich. The keynote speaker was Lucy Dalglish, Dean of the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
鈥淚n Detroit, we had frank conversations about the ups and downs of being a female in academia and the field of communication,鈥 Cousins said. 鈥淚鈥檓 excited about the opportunity to be mentored by Dr. Dalglish and other great women leaders as I build my career.鈥
The faculty fellows will be invited to additional training and networking activities planned during the year by the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women and the Kopenhaver Center.
鈥淲e鈥檙e really excited for Cle,鈥 said Dr. Jamie Litty, chair of the 麻豆社区P Department of Mass Communication. 鈥淪he鈥檚 been doing yeoman鈥檚 work as a full-time instructor in our curriculum while completing her doctoral studies. She鈥檚 in the data collection stage of her dissertation right now, and we鈥檙e looking forward to the results.鈥