Jim Boren receives Champion of Journalism Education Award

May 4, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Ed Galdrikian (left and Jim Boren (right)

The award was presented to Boren by retired high school journalism educator Ed Galdrikian and recognized him for speaking at educational journalism conferences and conventions around the state and volunteering at an inner-city elementary school to help underperforming students improve their reading levels.

‘Pup Culture’ website entertains while students learn

April 21, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

The Bulldog Pup Culture website is Fresno State students’ take on everything pop culture. Created by Munro’s fall 2021 Digital Editing class (MCJ 104), students decided the theme and the coverage to be mainly focused on music, fashion, video games, movies/streaming, health and campus life.

This week on Fresno State Focus…

April 4, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Beautify Fresno, Big Hat Days and unsung heroes on campus.

Audia Dixon and Steven Hensley named 2022 President’s Medalist

March 21, 2022.Reading time 24 minutes.

Undergraduate Dean's Medalist Steven Hensley, Dr. Honora Chapman, and Graduate Dean's Medalist Audia Dixon are wearing their commencement regalia and wearing their Dean's Medals in front of the rose garden with blooms of white, pink, yellow and red.

Meet the 2022 College of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Medalists and Students of Distinction.

This week on Fresno State Focus…

March 21, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

This week on Fresno State Focus Anchors Anissa Martinez and Karl Cooke Jr. will take us into the Fresno Chaffee Zoo to take a peek into the animal life there.

Student of Distinction: Tony Salazar

March 16, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Nonetheless, what’s essential for me is that I want to give a voice to the voiceless and give back to my community—as I have lived here throughout my entire life. By becoming involved in school and maintaining my good grades, I am confident that I will call this dream a reality.”

NewsTrain brings 2 days of journalism training to Fresno State

March 11, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Roger Tatarian Symposium explores the growing role of local nonprofit news

February 11, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

Madeleine Bair, Leslie David, Ramona Giwargis, Ron Smith and Sue Cross

A panel of top media professionals from around the country will engage in a discussion titled “Can Nonprofit News Outlets Save Local Journalism?” for the Spring 2022 Roger Tatarian Journalism Symposium.

Today on Fresno State Focus (in Spanish)

December 8, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Anchors Lily Gonzales of Concord and Ana Cruz Lopez of San Joaquin will look at the University’s decision to rename the Henry Madden Library in this week’s Spanish show.

Fresno State hosts affordable, digital training for journalists with NLA’s NewsTrain

November 11, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

A group of women gather around a computer during NewsTrain training.

California State University, Fresno will be hosting the News Leaders Association’s premier digital-skills workshop.

Message from the Dean

All of us in the College of Arts and Humanities hope that you and yours are doing well!

Our faculty have been hard at work, and our college’s students and alumni are pursuing their dreams in a wide variety of fields. We are excited to embark on a new venture with the creation of the M.K. Gandhi Center: Inner Peace and Sarvodaya. Thanks to a generous gift from the Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation, our campus and community will experience courses and programming dedicated to Gandhian peacemaking and upliftment of everyone in society. We hope you will join us at future events.

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