CARBONDALE, Ill. (WSIL) -- SIU-Carbondale is on track to launch a new college that will combine arts and media.
On July 1, SIU Carbondale will launch a new college that combines communications, mass media, fine and performing arts.
"We have been going through an academic, administrative reorganization so we're not changing the academic programs," said Meera Komarraju, Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
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SIU is in the process of creating a new college, The College of Arts and Media, by bringing together programs from three different colleges.
"We have some programs from what was originally mass communications and media arts, as well as some programs from the ripple arts, as well as some colleges from applied sciences and arts," said Komarraju.
Meanwhile, a professor from the Department of Theater has been appointed as the new college's Dean and shares some directions and goals for the new college.
"Our students and our faculty can have collaborators in their units where there own ideas can meet similar ideas and they can work together creating new projects," said Olusegun Ojewuyi, Dean of the College of Arts and Media:
Ojewuyi said this college is very unique, very different than all of the others because it is merging the creative artist and the scholar.
"To help engineer a growth of recruitment of students, to be able to put the word out there through the students through out graduates. That something unique is happening in Southern Illinois University," said Ojewuyi.
The College of Arts and media consists of six academic units in both undergraduate and graduate levels:
- School of Architecture
- School of Art and Design
- School of Journalism
- School of Media Arts
- School of Music
- Department of Theatre
Interdisciplinary graduate programs for the School of Journalism and the School of Media Arts will be administered at the college level.
About 760 students will be enrolled within the college, said Meera Komarraju, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
