The Department of Communication offers outreach/service activities in a variety of ways, including the following:

--Students in Advertising Campaigns class have developed ad campaigns for non-profit organizations in the city, to assist their fund-raising, membership development or public awareness of the organization and its activities.

--Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies has offered conflict mediation training to teachers and administrators in the Ysleta School District. These individuals will train students, in order to facilitate the decrease of violence in schools and increase of peer mediation programs.

--Department of Communication faculty have offered one-day workshops for high school speech and journalism teachers, to assist them with curricular development.

--Departmental faculty participate in an interdisciplinary Master’s in Leadership Studies program, which is offered to officers at Fort Bliss, an area Army base.


The Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies was created, in great part, to offer outreach programs to high school students and teachers and media/communication professionals.

--The Center holds an annual high school student journalism workshop. Twenty students from various high schools reside on campus for 10 days, learning about media writing and other aspects of news production.

--Workshops are held for media professionals to enrich academically their work. The first such workshop focused on using the new Spanish language media stylebook.

--Local media professionals/communication practitioners are invited to sessions featuring guest speakers such James Fallows, former presidential speechwriter and editor of Atlantic Monthly, Sam Donaldson of ABC News, and Rolando Santos, executive vice president of CNN Headline News.