The BYU Department of Communications was granted full reaccreditation in a 23-0 affirmative vote by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC) in Portland, Oregon, on May 1, 2009. This is the fourth consecutive reaccreditation of the program since its initial accreditation in 1984.
Although support for reaccreditation was unanimous at the [...]

In August 1998 at an academic conference in Baltimore, Laurie Wilson, then chair of the Department of Communications, shared her vision for the future of the BYU program with four Latter-day Saint colleagues from other universities. Laurie said that many members of the department’s faculty were nearing retirement, and she needed aggressive scholars to replace [...]