02/03/2012 - 18:41
The Center for Communication of Sustainable Social Change (CSSC) is hosting two visiting fellows from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, China....
for information about our new fellows
and more on Prof. Servaes' UNESCO appointment and interview
on Isaac Ben Ezra's show,"Conversations" on ACTV, Amherst Media
please see this link from In the Loop, news for faculty and staff
at U.Mass, Amherst
for information about our new fellows
and more on Prof. Servaes' UNESCO appointment and interview
on Isaac Ben Ezra's show,"Conversations" on ACTV, Amherst Media
please see this link from In the Loop, news for faculty and staff
at U.Mass, Amherst
11/22/2011 - 11:49
The campus community is invited to attend the second 2011-2012
Distinguished Faculty Lecture on Wednesday, November 30, at 4 pm
in the Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Building.
09/08/2011 - 17:38
Jan E. Servaes, professor of Communication and director of the Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC) has been named a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in Communication. The position is one of 19 UNESCO chairs in the U.S. and one of only three in communication.Servaes holds the first UNESCO chair in communication proper; the other two are in international journalism. Globally, he joins an elite group of 29 UNESCO chairs in communication, all coordinated by ORBICOM, an international network that links communications leaders from academic, media, corporate and government circles for information exchange and the development of shared projects.
To recognize this achievement, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) and the department of communication hosted a lecture by Servaes Monday, Oct. 3rd titled "Communication for Sustainable Social Change: Back to the Basics." To view his lecture click here.
September 8, 2011.
For the official news from UMass Amherst, please click here.
12/14/2011 - 18:43
December 12, 2011
The Honorable
Hilary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
Dear Madame Secretary:
We write in support of your initiative to persuade the United States Congress to honor its moral, ethical and financial commitments to UNESCO.
As professors and UNESCO Chair holders in American universities we have seen first-hand the importance of UNESCO programs that are carried out across a variety of disciplines and in accord with the highest ideals of economic and social development for all people. This work should not be subject to a litmus test imposed by partisan political interests.
Indeed, we believe it is indefensible for the United States to use its financial support to coerce any agency of the United Nations into compliance with its own agenda. Furthermore, as the US Department of State has noted, cutting funding to UNESCO is also counterproductive to American goals at home and abroad.
We support UNESCO’s Director General Irina Bukova vision for "a new era of peace and humanism... where the values of human dignity and human rights, of equal access to education and culture, will underpin all economic and political considerations."
If there is to be a new era, we believe it is imperative for the United States to base its actions neither on military nor on financial coercion but on the higher principles of peace and justice to which both the United Nations and the United States aspire.
Sincerely,
Professor Rosental C. Alves, UNESCO Chair in Communication, University of Texas at Austin, and President of ORBICOM, a global network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication
Professor Max Kirsch, UNESCO Chair in Human and Cultural Rights, Florida Atlantic University
Professor Marguerite Moritz, UNESCO Chair in International Journalism, University of Colorado at Boulder
Professor Robert J. Naiman, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Rivers, University of Washington
Professor Jan Servaes, UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change, University of Massachusetts
Professor Steven Shankman, UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace, University of Oregon
The Honorable
Hilary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
Dear Madame Secretary:
We write in support of your initiative to persuade the United States Congress to honor its moral, ethical and financial commitments to UNESCO.
As professors and UNESCO Chair holders in American universities we have seen first-hand the importance of UNESCO programs that are carried out across a variety of disciplines and in accord with the highest ideals of economic and social development for all people. This work should not be subject to a litmus test imposed by partisan political interests.
Indeed, we believe it is indefensible for the United States to use its financial support to coerce any agency of the United Nations into compliance with its own agenda. Furthermore, as the US Department of State has noted, cutting funding to UNESCO is also counterproductive to American goals at home and abroad.
We support UNESCO’s Director General Irina Bukova vision for "a new era of peace and humanism... where the values of human dignity and human rights, of equal access to education and culture, will underpin all economic and political considerations."
If there is to be a new era, we believe it is imperative for the United States to base its actions neither on military nor on financial coercion but on the higher principles of peace and justice to which both the United Nations and the United States aspire.
Sincerely,
Professor Rosental C. Alves, UNESCO Chair in Communication, University of Texas at Austin, and President of ORBICOM, a global network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication
Professor Max Kirsch, UNESCO Chair in Human and Cultural Rights, Florida Atlantic University
Professor Marguerite Moritz, UNESCO Chair in International Journalism, University of Colorado at Boulder
Professor Robert J. Naiman, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Rivers, University of Washington
Professor Jan Servaes, UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change, University of Massachusetts
Professor Steven Shankman, UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace, University of Oregon
10/04/2011 - 17:47
The annual Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award aims to honor outstanding contributions by individuals or organizations to the theory and practice of communication for sustainable social change.
In recognition of outstanding achievement, the jury has recognized two very distinctive organizations: one whose work is generated and promoted from a grassroots origin; the other, established from a more traditional approach using television media for communication sources of information, thereby recommends hat the 2011 CSSC award to be presented this year to two nominees for their distinctive work in sustaining social change in communication:
In recognition of outstanding achievement, the jury has recognized two very distinctive organizations: one whose work is generated and promoted from a grassroots origin; the other, established from a more traditional approach using television media for communication sources of information, thereby recommends hat the 2011 CSSC award to be presented this year to two nominees for their distinctive work in sustaining social change in communication:
Sharad Sharma, World Comics India (WCI)
and to
Canal Futura, Roberto Marinho Foundation, Brazil
07/27/2010 - 10:46
Prof. Jarice Hanson, CSSC Board Member, has been renewed as Verizon Chair in Telecommunications in the School of Communications and Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Congratulations, Jarice!