Student Activities
Express Yourself
As Loyola strives for excellence, the School of Communication offers various opportunities for students to express their skills, opinions and ideas. Organizations include honors societies and professional organizations, as well as student-produced programming and publications. Each presents real life experience for students striving to achieve excellence in various fields of communication.
| Beta Rho Honors Society |
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| Beta Rho Honors Society: Beta Rho is a chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Association Undergraduate Honors Society. As the only active organization at Loyola University Chicago geared towards academically advanced communication majors, it stands as Beta Rho’s number one priority to recognize, foster and award those students who have pushed their talents and ability farther than that which is required from them. |
| International Association of Business Communicators |
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| International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)/Loyola Student Chapter started at Loyola in the early 1980s as the third student chapter formed in the United States. Today, the IABC/Loyola Student Chapter is still the only student chapter in the Chicago-land area. It remains a student-led organization for aspiring professionals who want to learn more about the variety of communication-related career fields. |
| Internship and Career Center |
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| Loyola University Debate Society |
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Loyola University Debate Team: Memberships: NPDA Style: Parliamentary |
| Online Student-Produced Magazines: |
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| Online Student-Produced Magazines: Mosaic 2008, 2009 Loyola's School of Communication encourages students to be involved with their surrounding community and issues concerning social justice. John Slania's Advanced Reporting class evokes student-produced online magazines that strive to promote issues of social justice in Chicago. The class offers practical training for students interested in reporting for newspapers, TV and radio. Students research and develop story ideas, conduct interviews, take photos and design the Web site. |
| The Loyola Phoenix, Student Newspaper |
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Phoenix Student Newspaper May, 2009--The Loyola Phoenix student newspaper won first place as the best all-around non-daily student newspaper. Phoenix columnists Katie Drews and Sarah Watts also took first place in the general column-writing category. Second-place honors went to the Loyola Phoenix Editorial Board for editorial writing and to the Phoenix’s Assistant Diversions Editor, Kate Albing, for feature writing. Albing’s award-winning story, “Class in session” chronicled the musicians at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk music. |
| Public Relations Student Society of America |
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| Public Relations Student Society of America In 1968, 20 years after its own establishment, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) founded the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). The declared purpose of PRSSA is to cultivate a favorable and mutually advantageous relationship between students and professional public relations practitioners. |
| Society of Professional Journalists Loyola Chapter |
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| Society of Professional Journalists Loyola Chapter: Embedded in the history of Journalism is the Society of Professional Journalists. It is the nation's largest and most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of print and electronic journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior. The SPJ code of ethics is still the gold-standard by which industry professionals abide today |
| WLUW-88.7, Chicago Sound Alliance Radio |
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