History
March 1971
- School founded by USC and Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg
July 1973
- Frederick Williams becomes first dean
January 1974
- First M.A. students begin classes (12 in Communication Management)
September 1974
- First Ph.D. students begin classes (11 in Communication Theory & Research)
- Groundbreaking for Annenberg School building
February 1975
- USC Annenberg graduates first students (M.A.)
November 1976
- Annenberg School building dedicated
January 1978
- USC Annenberg awards first Ph.D. degrees
1980-81
- Richard Byrne serves as interim dean
September 1981
- Peter Clarke becomes dean
December 1989
- School name changed from “Annenberg School of Communications” to “Annenberg School for Communication”
1992-94
- A. Michael Noll serves as dean for an interim period
May 1994
- USC Annenberg expands to include two of USC's related academic departments: the School of Journalism, which was established as a separate department in 1927, and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, which offered courses of study taught at USC since 1895.
1994-96
- Gerald Davison serves as interim dean
January 1997
- Geoffrey Cowan becomes dean
1999
- USC Annenberg and the London School of Economics & Political Science establishes a joint M.A. degree program in global communication
January 2001
- Annenberg Foundation makes $6 million gift to endow faculty chairs named for Wallis Annenberg
2001
- Michael Parks becomes interim director of the School of Journalism, and was named director a year later.
September 2002
- Annenberg Foundation establishes $100 million endowment for school
2005
- First year M.A. in public diplomacy offered
2007
- Ernest J. Wilson III becomes dean
2008
- Geneva Overholser named director of School of Journalism
October 2009
- School name changed from “Annenberg School for Communication” to “Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism”
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