Department

• C&J Mission Statement
• C&J Vision
• Fairness Policies
• Staff Office Hours
• Facilities
• C&J CIRT Pod
• Holidays
• Inclement Weather (Snow) Policy
• Faculty and Staff of C&J

C&J Mission Statement
The Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico creates ex-cellence in learning through academic scholarship, teaching, and service to the community and the field.  We offer undergraduate majors and minors in communication and in journalism and mass communication for liberal arts and career preparation.  We also offer electives and courses that serve the general education programs of the entire university.

Communication is the focus of our scholarship and curricula with emphasis on the understanding and appreciation of diverse messages and meanings.  Our scholarship and teaching explore the social skills, societal dynamics, and professional environments of communication from a variety of standpoints: intercultural, interpersonal, rhetorical, health, organizational, advertising, public relations, broadcasting, print journalism, and mass communication.

At the graduate level, the department offers the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in communication.  The complex relationship between communication and culture as interaction, artifact, and text is the distinctive focus of these programs. We offer an emphasis on three core areas of communication: intercultural communication, health communication, and mass communication.

COMMITMENTS:

• To promote and support the mission of the University of
  New Mexico.
• To offer academic programs leading to bachelors, masters
  and doctoral degrees
• To demonstrate excellence in all endeavors
• To provide students with the tools needed to succeed in
  a challenging global work environment
• To value, embrace, and support diversity as an integral
  component of communication
• To understand, evaluate, and produce scholarship
  concerning the structure, function, dy-namics and impact
  of human communication in a variety of contexts
• To use the Southwest and international borderland
  environment to focus the study of in-tercultural
  communication.

C&J Vision
            Communicating for a Better World
The Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico is a center that fosters discovery, creativity, dialogue, teamwork, and growth among a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students—a community that will be recognized as a unique and excellent example of communication research, education, and outreach for a better world.

Fairness Policies

Equal Educational Opportunity Policy
The University of New Mexico is committed to providing equal educational opportunity and forbids unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disabilities, age, sex, sexual preference, ancestry, or medical condition. Equal education opportunity includes: admission, recruitment, extracurricular programs and activities, housing, health and insurance services and athletics. In keeping with this policy of equal educational opportunity, the University is committed to creating and maintaining an atmosphere free from all forms of harassment.

Affirmative Action Policy
The University of New Mexico commits itself to a program of affirmative action to increase access by, and participation of, traditionally under represented groups in the University's education programs and work force. It is the policy of the University in the case where a vacant position falls within a job group which is determined to have underutilization that the hiring official give preference for selection to a finalist who is member of the underutilized group, provided his/her qualifications and past performance are subtantially equal to other finalists.

ADA Compliance
To comply with ADA and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, UNM can provide information in alternative formats. If you have a special need and require an auxiliary aide and/or service, please contact Student Support Services - Upward Bound, Mesa Vista Hall, 505/277-3506.

Staff Office Hours

Regular Hours
We are open Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Fridays we are open from 8 a.m. to 4 p m. We are also open every day through lunchtime. So do drop by just to chat or  resolve an issue. Either way we are here to help you as necessary. And of course do not hesitate to call us at our main number: (505) 277-5305.

Extended Hours
Let us know if you need special arrangements.

Facilities
The C&J building opened in May 2007 after being closed for a year for renovation. Faculty and staff moved back into the building throughout the summer of 2007, and classes resumed there in the fall of 2007.

Our department provides the following resources to augment the lessons of the classroom: a television production studio, video editing facilities, a work area for forensics students, Windows and Mac computer labs, audio tape recording facilities, a darkroom, portable video-camera sound recorders and access to computer-aided photocomposition (in cooperation with the student daily newspaper.)

C&J CIRT Pod
The C&J Department has Windows and Mac CIRT pods on the first floor of the renovated building.

Holidays
Our office will be closed during the following days this academic year:

• Labor Day: Monday, Sept. 7, 2009
• Fall break, Thursday and Friday, Oct. 15-16, 2009
• Thanksgiving: Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26-29, 2009
• Winter Break: Dec. 19, 2009 to Jan. 1, 2010
• Martin Luther King Day: Monday, Jan. 18, 2010
• Memorial Day, May 31, 2010

Inclement Weather (Snow) Policy
Please remember that UNM's "Snow Policy"' provides that all offices and work locations will normally remain open during regular business or operating hours even if early or late classes are cancelled because of snow. Only in extreme conditions would the University shut down and even then, the medical facilities, UNM Police, and other critical areas would remain open.

In the event of delays of closures during final exam week, faculty whose final exams are affected by the delay or closure may elect one of the three options. Faculty must choose one of the options prior to final exam week and clearly communicate to their students which option thy have chosen. The options are:

• Faculty may assign as final grades, the current grades that students have going into final exam week.

• Faculty may make provisions for students whose exams are cancelled to contact them for the scheduling of a make-up exam or alternative arrangements.

• Faculty may, as a last resort, choose to assign incomplete grades.

On days when there is bad weather, you can listen to local radio and television stations for information about UNM or call UNM's "Snow Hotline" (277-SNOW). Information will also be made available on UNM's voice mail and e-mail systems.

Faculty of the
Department of Communication & Journalism

C&J staff
The staff members of the Department of Communication & Journalism are profiled here.