2008 Woodie Awards
Class helps prepare speaker series
By: Breanna Herschelman
Issue date: 10/5/06 Section: News
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Before the current school year began, Gov. Holden, media relations director Christine Wells Eason and Debra Carpenter, dean of the School of Communications, met to discuss how students could get involved in the preparation of Holden's Public Policy Forum.
They formed a class for public relations majors to gain experience in special events planning, which is offered through Public Relations Professor Gary Ford.
Wells Eason said the students are not in a typical classroom environment but work more as a team on an assignment. The class holds meetings once a week for one hour to relay ideas to each other. Each student was assigned a special task for the forum.
Jessica Hogan, a junior public relations major, was in charge of communicating with extended campuses. Her tasks included calling all extended campuses, including international campuses and raising awareness of the Web cast portion of the forum.
"The class was a really good opportunity for my major, and I wanted to take advantage while I could," Hogan said.
Senior public relations major Nick McGeehon took the class wanting to focus on the political portion of the forum. McGeehon said he could see himself getting involved in politics in the future, and that exposure to politics through the forums would help him get face time with the politicians. McGeehon was in charge of managing and developing the forum's Web site.
Other students split tasks such as pre-Web cast programming, writing a story on Holden for Webster World magazine, creating a forum newsletter and establishing media relations with the community.
1st forum of the school year
The Old Post Office campus welcomed Gov. Holden's Public Policy Forum and guest speaker Charles Inlander Sept. 21 to speak about the problems with the healthcare system in the United States. The event, held in the Old Post Office's En Banc Courtroom, was broadcast live online to all of Webster's extended campuses, including the international campuses.
They formed a class for public relations majors to gain experience in special events planning, which is offered through Public Relations Professor Gary Ford.
Wells Eason said the students are not in a typical classroom environment but work more as a team on an assignment. The class holds meetings once a week for one hour to relay ideas to each other. Each student was assigned a special task for the forum.
Jessica Hogan, a junior public relations major, was in charge of communicating with extended campuses. Her tasks included calling all extended campuses, including international campuses and raising awareness of the Web cast portion of the forum.
"The class was a really good opportunity for my major, and I wanted to take advantage while I could," Hogan said.
Senior public relations major Nick McGeehon took the class wanting to focus on the political portion of the forum. McGeehon said he could see himself getting involved in politics in the future, and that exposure to politics through the forums would help him get face time with the politicians. McGeehon was in charge of managing and developing the forum's Web site.
Other students split tasks such as pre-Web cast programming, writing a story on Holden for Webster World magazine, creating a forum newsletter and establishing media relations with the community.
1st forum of the school year
The Old Post Office campus welcomed Gov. Holden's Public Policy Forum and guest speaker Charles Inlander Sept. 21 to speak about the problems with the healthcare system in the United States. The event, held in the Old Post Office's En Banc Courtroom, was broadcast live online to all of Webster's extended campuses, including the international campuses.
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