Diederich College Recommended for Full Re-accreditation

 A five-member site team from the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has recommended full re-accreditation for both the undergraduate and graduate programs in journalism and mass communication in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. The site team evaluated the programs in Advertising, Journalism, Broadcast and Electronic Communication and Public Relations, and the Master of Arts in Communication.

“This is really a fabulous outcome,” said Lori Bergen, dean of the Diederich College. “The site team’s endorsement of what we do is wonderful validation of excellence in our people, programs and facilities.”

The site team, a group of journalism and mass communication professionals and educators, visited our campus January 31-February 3 and interviewed students, faculty, staff, and other Marquette officials. Their recommendation for accreditation will now be reviewed by the ACEJMC Committee, which meets this March in Chicago, and then by the ACEJMC Council, which meets in the Washington, DC, area in May.

Marquette’s programs in journalism and mass communication were first accredited by ACEJMC in 1929 and Marquette is the only university among the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States to be accredited by the organization.