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CMCI continues its pre-collegiate outreach efforts through the 2022 Connections: CMCI Summer Academy.High school students, CMCI peer mentors, faculty and staff came together this July to build new bonds and celebrate the first fully in-person year of the program.

For the past 10 years, incoming college first-year students have flocked to CU’s campus to get a taste of college life before the semester begins. After two years of COVID-induced restrictions, the Pathways to Excellence program is back in full swing in 2022.

During the racial reckoning that rose in 2020, Assistant Professor Danielle Hodge launched a new course, Race, Anti-Black Racism and Communication. Two years later, her work continues to bridge disciplines and change the lives of students.

CMCI students who have completed at least 12 credit hours of CU �鶹ӰԺ course work for a letter grade in any single semester and achieve a term grade point average of 3.75 or better are included on the Dean’s List. They receive a notation on

Congratulations to our 2022 graduates! We are thrilled to celebrate with you and are proud to call each of you a Forever Buff. Our ceremony is available online, watch now!

Fourth-year student Grace Channell considers herself a lifelong learner. As a student, she dove into a major in communication, double minors and multiple leadership roles in student groups. This month, Channell will graduate with her degree, lessons learned from her undergraduate experience and the honor of being named the Department of Communication’s William W. White Outstanding Senior.

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Congratulations to CMCI's Department of Communication spring 2022 award recipients, who earned honors for outstanding achievement, leadership, engagement, teaching and more!

Featuring Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Communication)

CMCI Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lisa Flores reflects on the history of Blacks and African Americans in the United States—encapsulated in the song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—and urges us to bring that history forward both during, and beyond, Black History Month.