Facilities
The School of Mass Communication is housed on the third and fourth floors of the Communications/Music Complex.
All students have access to three
state-of-the-art computer laboratories that include powerful graphic computers to work on print, design, public relations and advertising projects.
Students interested in advertising and public relations can work on projects for actual clients in the Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Non-Profit Communications.
Students interested in print journalism, design and advertising work on The Wolf magazine and yearbook, and The Maroon newspaper and Web site. Each year, journalism students compete for awards through the Society of Professional Journalists, the Louisiana Press Association and the Associated Collegiate Press.
Each year a team of students is selected to compete in the American Advertising Federation National Student Competition and the Public Relations Student Society Bateman Competition. Both of these teams have an impressive record of national awards.
Also housed in the School of Mass Communication are two centers that do a great deal of work in the community:
The Center for Environmental Communications’ mission is to educate students in the field of environmental communications, to stimulate communications among environmental stakeholders, to provide the public with unbiased discussion of environmental issues, and to be a resource to the media for environmental information. Its popular Institute of Environmental Communications (IEC) brings together a diverse group of citizens (environmentalists, scientists, journalists, industrialists, Brown Field community people, politicians, government employees, teachers, business persons, and the like) for 14-20 evening sessions to discuss issues of vital environmental importance to the region and the nation. http://www.loyno.edu/~lucec/
The Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Nonprofit Communications links nonprofit organizations needing assistance with their advertising, public relations, and integrated communications with students who can provide such assistance under faculty supervision. It is a win-win situation as students gain real world hands-on experience, and nonprofit organizations with limited funds get professional communications strategies and materials. http://www.loyno.edu/~dcenter/