USC Annenberg School For Communication and Journalism - History

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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