Texas Christian University’s College of Communication dean Bill Slater spoke to the Black Faculty and Staff Caucus, as well as to several mass communication classes, in order to encourage and motivate present and future campus minority administrators.
Slater, who spoke at the African-American Cultural Center at noon Tuesday, also spoke to mass communication classes about media convergence and the importance of working simultaneously with each other.
“It is important to have minority administrators at LSU,” said Katrice Albert, Office of Multicultural Affairs assistant director. “Listening to [Slater] gives us a chance to better ourselves.”
Albert also said this allows current administrators and those who aspire to be administrators the chance to hear about their successes as well as their pitfalls.
Slater, the first African-American academic dean at TCU, emphasized the trends in the media such as convergence, language changes and the obligation media has to help one another improve.
Slater also detailed the college student’s civic duty to vote in every election as he spoke to mass communication classes.
Slater, the former assistant to the governor of Massachusetts, earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Stanford University and made a name for himself as a reporter in Boston, Baltimore, Washington, New York, Cleveland and San Francisco during the late 1960s.
He also serves as president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication school administrators.