Last month, a team of IUP Communications Media students and faculty members presented at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference on Higher Education.

International student Emebet Van Slobbe offered some insight into what it is like to view America as an outsider. Born in Ethiopia but raised in Holland, she came to IUP in August 2008 as a Communications Media major.

The Communications Media doctoral program has drawn twenty-one students in its first cohort, greatly exceeding its preliminary estimate of students. This number was well above the sixteen students that officials expected to be enrolled.

After having one article published on the effects that distance education can have on third world countries, IUP graduate student George Konetes has published another article focusing on the political forces that effect distance education programs.