In the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, students, faculty and staff are collaborating on efforts surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion. Following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department in May 2020, the SJMC “vowed to continue studying and working to change the structural inequalities that vex our university, our communities and the wider society.”
Included in these efforts was a restructuring of the SJMC Inclusion Committee, which had previously been run by Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism Sue Robinson and graduate advisor Lisa Aarli.
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