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Carol Pardun has been named the new director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, effective Aug. 1.
Pardun, director of the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, was selected after a nationwide search.
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She succeeds Shirley Staples Carter, 2007 Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism Administrator of the Year, who is completing a five-year term as the school's director and will remain on the faculty, expanding her teaching and research.
"Dr. Pardun liked us and we liked her," said Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, which houses the journalism school.
"She has a significant record of research and publishing, her teaching record is admirable, and she brings administrative experience and national stature to our program."
In 2009, Pardun will become president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research has focused on the effects of advertising on adolescents. Her forthcoming book, Advertising and Society: Controversies and Consequences, will be published later this year.
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