The program provides production and marketing classes tailor-made for students working to become sports media professionals. The Spring 2024 semester also marks the launch of the Newhouse LA sports media communications program. From left, Anna Proulx, director of the College of Visual and Performing Arts Program, LA Semester Robin Howard, director of the Newhouse School Program, LA Semester Newhouse School Dean Mark Lodato Cindy Clark ’86 RAC Clark Provost Gretchen Ritter College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean Michael Tick John Sykes ’77, president of entertainment enterprises for iHeartMedia and Joan Adler, assistant vice president of regional programs in Los Angeles. “By coming out to Los Angeles, are not only able to take courses that relate to their own industry, as well as what’s happening here in L.A., but they are also exposed to wonderful job and internship opportunities that often lead to full-time jobs after graduation,” said Newhouse School Dean Mark J. Students in the Newhouse LA program take classes taught by entertainment industry experts while also getting valuable experience through internships and networking events. Two students celebrate during the building dedication. It’s a short walk to the Metro station, and a bustling neighborhood filled with restaurants, theaters and housing options, adding to the student experience. The new location is a hub for all things Syracuse in Los Angeles and offers Newhouse LA students a fresh space filled with innovative classrooms, offices, studios and more. That’s what we’re celebrating today.” Newhouse LA program director Robin Howard gives remarks at the new building dedication. “What the gift allows us to do is really provide expanded programs, to be very creative with the programs that we offer now, to offer students from the school the most robust, experiential learning opportunity that we possibly can. “We’re celebrating a truly transformative, generous gift from the Clark Family, so that’s number one,” said Robin Howard, director of the Newhouse LA program. The gleaming new space housed in the shiny, glass-enclosed office building is the result of an extraordinary gift from the Kari and Dick Clark Foundation to significantly expand the University’s presence and impact in the entertainment field.
Newhouse LA will be based in the University’s new home. Joined by family members of the late Dick Clark ’51, students, faculty, staff, leadership, alumni and friends gathered to dedicate the new Syracuse University Dick Clark Los Angeles Program location in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles.
The new North Hollywood home of the Syracuse University Dick Clark Los Angeles Program. Twenty-two undergraduate and graduate students traversed the slopes of Whiteface Mountain, took in sled hockey games in Tupper Lake and worked early mornings and late nights to provide comprehensive coverage of the Games and its nearly 2,500 athletes through photography, videography, social media posts and website management. This event is the largest Olympic-style multi-sport winter event for amateur athletes. It was a tiring yet rewarding weekend for the nearly two dozen Newhouse School students who covered the Empire State Winter Games (ESWG) in Lake Placid, New York in early February. Newhouse Students Capture Excitement and Intensity of Empire State Winter Games A precise time and location will be announced soon stay tuned for details.įor more information about Commencement activities for the Class of 2020, see the event listing. The event will include a dean’s welcome, recognition of participating graduates and an opportunity to reconnect with faculty. Lodato and the faculty and staff for a celebratory reception.
Doors open at 8 a.m.įollowing Commencement, all 2020 Newhouse graduates and their families are invited to join Dean Mark J. This University-wide ceremony, where Syracuse University Chancellor and President Kent Syverud will formally confer degrees, is for all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral candidates. Syracuse University will host a Commencement ceremony-delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic-and other celebratory events for the Class of 2020 during the weekend of Sept. Class of 2020 Commencement events to be held Sept.