University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Coordinates: 35°54′36.81″N 79°3′6.66″W / 35.9102250°N 79.0518500°W
The first UNC journalism class was taught in 1909 in the English department. The Department of Journalism was founded in 1924. It became a school in 1950. In 1990, Mass Communication was added to the name. In 1999, the school moved into Carroll Hall. The school has been nationally accredited since 1958 by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). The school has 51 full-time faculty, and enrolled are approximately 800 undergraduate students and 100 graduate students (60 Master's and 40 PhD). It is now called the UNC School of Media and Journalism.
The school has nearly 9,000 alumni in all 50 states and 29 countries, including 5,000 alumni in North Carolina. Twenty-four of the school's former students and faculty members have won or been part of 28 Pulitzer Prizes, including the late editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, a three-time Pulitzer winner.
Susan King has been dean of the school since January 1, 2012. King came to the school from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she was vice president for external affairs and program director for the journalism initiative. Dulcie Straughan was interim dean of the school in 2011. Jean Folkerts served as dean of the school from 2006 to 2011. Folkerts followed Tom Bowers, who had served as interim dean for one year and had been on the faculty since 1971. Bowers followed Richard Cole, who was dean of the School for 26 years.
The School is home to the North Carolina Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations and Broadcasting Halls of Fame.
English professor Edward Kidder Graham taught the first journalism course at UNC, English 16: “Journalism.” The two-credit course was described as “the history of journalism; the technique of style; the structure of the news story; and the study of modern journals” in the 1909-10 academic catalog.
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