DePauw University seeks a full-time Director of the Pulliam Center, to start by summer 2025. The Director will help the University deepen the connection between its liberal arts education and contemporary media by ensuring that the Pulliam Center offers media literacy learning and experiential opportunities across traditional/legacy and new media platforms. These opportunities give students experience with analog and digital formats, and with interactive and asynchronous formats. The enhanced vision for the Pulliam Center is expected to align with the University’s ambitious Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan being implemented under the leadership of President Lori S. White. The plan builds on DePauw’s historic strengths developing students to be leaders using the hallmarks of a liberal arts education and also showcases and enhances some of our academic areas including launching a School of Business and Leadership in fall 2023 and a Creative School in fall 2024. These new schools complement the long-standing strengths of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences where the Pulliam Center is housed. The center, like all our centers and schools, is charged with providing opportunities to students, faculty and staff across the entire University.
The Director of the Pulliam Center will be responsible for helping DePauw develop our future vision for one of the nation’s finest experiential learning programs in media leadership and literacy within a liberal arts setting. They will build and cultivate programming, skills development, internships, student organizations, and alumni mentoring and networking for a broad diversity of students from multiple disciplines interested in complementing their studies with media, journalism, and marketing skills, insights and experiences.
The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics states “public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy.” In keeping with that theme, in parallel with the work described above, the Director of the Pulliam Center will lead a collaborative process to develop a proposal for an enhanced Pulliam Center that will broaden its focus to leverage media to support civic discourse and engagement in ways that strengthen democracy. The successful director will be well-positioned for this part of the role and excited by the prospect of helping DePauw chart this new path as well as implementing the path after the proposal is approved, including collaborating with DePauw’s Development and Alumni Engagement Division to secure the necessary resources.
In addition to helping DePauw develop and implement the future vision of the Pulliam Center, the Director, with support of the associate director, advisors to the media organizations, and the building engineer is responsible for the ongoing management of building operations.
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