The Major Change

Many students at Texas Tech University and across the country risk changing their major in pursuit of happiness. At Texas Tech, an average student has the potential to choose from 12 different colleges and 88 different courses of study. On average, 80 percent of college students in the U.S. changes their major at least once, […]

Panel To Discuss ISIS Recruitment Strategies

The U.S. has put much effort and money into combating the jihadist organization Islamic State, known as ISIS, but the group still has between 30,000 and 50,000 militants estimated to be fighting for it. How is that possible? This is a question Dean David Perlmutter has sought to answer in his research. He is studying how the group’s has managed […]

Sassy Mom Makes Tech Student’s Post Go Viral

All it took was a funny picture and a snarky comment from her mom to make a post go viral. Gracen Daniel, a senior agricultural communications major, went to the annual conference of the Mortar Board, a national honor society for college seniors, over the summer. While there, Daniel—who is president of the society’s Tech chapter—took a photo […]

Meet Mass Comm: Alexander Elaborates on Women in Communications

Bethany Alexander, a Texas Tech University senior and self-proclaimed people-lover, has always been interested in communications, but until recently she was not a part of the College of Media & Communication. The 21-year-old public relations major transferred from her original speech pathology route her junior year. “People are my passion,” Alexander said. “Once I got into it, […]

Future of Communications Examined by Guest Professor

Laughter echoed out of Room 056 in the Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication building as Jakob Jensen, University of Utah professor of communication and sarcastically self-proclaimed futurist, began his high-energy lecture. Jensen initially remarked he was asked to give a “big talk” for his Center of Communication Research Colloquium, so he came to […]

TTU Agricultural Communications Program Ranked First in Thesis Poll

In a recent Master of Science degree thesis, Texas Tech University was listed as having the top agricultural communications undergraduate program in the United States, according to an opinion poll of 17 faculty members from across the nation. Morgan Large, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas, conducted her thesis, “Characteristics of Agricultural Communications Undergraduate […]