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Department of Communication and Journalism
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

The department’s faculty engage in an impressive variety of research, including faculty-undergraduate-student collaborative research, and professional service initiatives on local, regional, and national levels.

It has 15 full-time faculty/staff lines serving undergraduate programs in advertising, broadcast journalism, print journalism, organizational communication, public communication, and public relations. The programs are among the university's most popular undergraduate degrees, with more than 550 majors. Distinctive departmental features include a commitment to high academic standards and continued innovation as well as vibrant undergraduate in-class, out-of-class, and student-organization experiential learning opportunities, and a new multimedia instructional lab area that will open in 2008.

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus community consists of more than 10,500 students and 700 faculty and administrative/professional staff. As the UW System's only Center of Excellence for faculty and undergraduate research, faculty and students regularly work side-by-side on original research.

Often described as Wisconsin's most beautiful campus, UW-Eau Claire's campus spans the banks of the Chippewa River in the heart of Eau Claire, western Wisconsin's largest city. Eau Claire and the surrounding countryside have many scenic rivers, lakes, parks, bike trails and wooded areas, where students and community members enjoy seasonal sports, camping and a variety of other recreational activities.
To learn more, visit the university’s Web site: http://www.uwec.edu/acadaff/jobs/.

A community of 60,000, Eau Claire is a safe, friendly, and affordable community with employment opportunities for family members and outstanding schools for children. Eau Claire is 90 miles from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, which offers world-class theater, symphony and chamber orchestras, restaurants, professional sports, shopping, and cultural diversity.