HIGHLIGHTS 2021 FROM
Last year was the beginning of a new era as we welcomed Hub Brown, the seventh dean in CJC’s history. It was a year that the College again was honored for its outstanding faculty, staff and students. Teachers of the Year Journalism Lecturer and Associate Chair Harrison Hove was named the University of Florida’s Teacher of the Year, the second CJC faculty member in a row to win and the sixth to receive this honor in 15 years. Clay Calvert, Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication in the Journalism Department, was named UF Teacher/Scholar of the Year. And Carrie Martins, CJC Online combination degree and student adviser, received UF’s Staff International Educator of the Year award.
Expanding Faculty Ranks
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The College continued its historic expansion as it launched search processes for 12 new faculty members, who are scheduled to be hired in spring 2022 and start in the fall. CJC also began the search for a new Innovation News Center Director, replacing Mira Lowe, who left to become Dean of the School of Journalism and Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University.
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Hearst Journalism Awards The College placed second overall in the Hearst Journalism Awards Intercollegiate Competition, its highest finish since 2008. CJC also placed first in the Broadcast competition, its third first-place finish in four years.
ALEX Honored Project ALEX, a virtual health assistant developed by the STEM Translational Communication Center, was named one of seven Innovations of the Year by UF Innovate. ALEX was developed to promote colorectal cancer screening among minority and rural patients.
UF Teacher of the Year Harrison Hove
