School Administration

The Dean of the School of Communication is Annenberg University Professor Barbara J. O'Keefe. The assistant to the Dean is Kate Bolgrien. The Dean's staff are grouped in six functional areas:

The Office of Administration and Finance (including technology) is headed by Associate Dean Rick Morris
The Office of Research is headed by Associate Dean Jane Rankin
The Office of Graduate Programs is headed by Associate Dean Mimi White
The Office of Undergraduate Programs and Advising is headed by Assistant Dean Susan Dun
The Office of Communications and External Programs is headed by Ms. Kathryn Neal
The Distributed Learning Laboratory

Administration and Finance

Associate Dean Rick Morris
Dean's Office, Frances Searle Building 1-122

Included in this office are:

The SoC Business Office, staffed by Gaye Markov, Sonia Waters, and Oksana Shylnov.
The SoC Information Technology Office, headed by Jared Magill.
The SoC Media Services Group (MSG), headed by Tony Tolnai. MSG is housed in Louis Hall.

Research

Associate Dean Jane Rankin
Frances Searle Building
847-491-5380

This office includes:

Grants administration (Sheri Carsello).
Undergraduate research grants.
Research support for faculty.
Communication Century Scholars Program
Infant and Child Studies (Nicole Cabell-Pope)

Graduate Programs

Associate Dean Mimi White
Frances Searle Building
847-491-2569

This office serves as a liason between the SoC graduate programs (see the PROGRAM FINDER) and Northwestern's Graduate School.

Undergraduate Programs + Advising

Assistant Dean Susan Dun
Undergraduate Resource Center, Frances Searle Building
847-491-7214

This office is staffed by a program coordinator and academic advisors.

Program coordinator: Vickie Myrick Smith
Internship program: Roberta Stack
Academic advisors:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders: Jeannette Ortiz, Fran Block, Anna Wagner
- Communication Studies: Debra Webster, Harold Gulley, Todd Murphy
- Radio-Television-Film: Roberta Stack, Jen Baker
- Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies: Kyla Brundage, Lynn Kelso

Communications + External Programs

Director Kate Neal
Undergraduate Resource Center, Frances Searle Building
847-497-0270

Manager of Publications and Communications
Manager of Events: Tricia David
Programs for Alumni
- NUEA East and NUEA West
- Northwestern Alumni Associate (NAA)
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Distributed Learning Laboratory

This office is responsible for supporting our instructional and research programs with digital learning technologies.