Elliott School's Vision
The guiding vision for establishing the Elliott School was people, programs and facilities committed to communication integration. To achieve that vision, the school recruited faculty whose teaching and research interests exemplified the diverse and dynamic communication industries; adopted a model curriculum of integrating communication skills, theory, research, law and ethics; and moved into a new building in 1995 equipped with up-to-date technology in classrooms and labs.
The Elliott School has been especially successful in implementing an integrated curriculum that is relevant and marketable.
From the progressive strategic plan outlined for the school at its inception, the Elliott School continues to promote the vision that:
- Communication specialists should also be communication generalists
- Communication graduates need a strong liberal arts education
- All of the communication industries are engaged in the same functions: gathering information, and creating and disseminating messages
- Communication professionals cannot afford to be unschooled in any of the basic skills — oral, visual or written
- The strongest communication programs in higher education are those which combine disciplinary strengths in an interdisciplinary matrix.