Mass Comm provisional status prompts changes, concerns

 
The Southern University department of Mass Communication made new and additional changes which may help carry on and improve the department.
Changes prompt concerns and excitement among the department as it rebounds from a provisional accreditation last year.
New and improved technology, additional High Definition cameras, more class offerings and the opening of five new classrooms in W.W. Stewart Hall that are dedicated to mass communication students and the progression of their works.
Mahmoud Braima, SU Mass Communication department chair believes that these changes will help better many students opportunities towards getting prepared for their up and coming career of choices. 
These changes towards the department have many students anxious. Most of the upperclassmen say that these changes that are going on within the department have no effect at towards them graduating on time, whether graduating in December or May 2013.
Marcus Warren, a senior public relations major said the department is progressing forward, which is helping Southern move in the right direction.  
“These changes do not affect me due to the fact that I have completed the mass communications program and will be graduating in May,” Warren said.
Kayla Tate, senior broadcasting major also finished with the mass communications curriculum. However, she still offers her help towards the upcoming group of students who are planning on entering the department.
“I do care for the upcoming group of students. If the changes made are positive, then good. If they are negative and happen to prolong the duration it takes to complete the requirements for the major, then it may impact the students and the department in a negative matter,” Tate said.
Some students still believe that this department still has some improvements to make. Darnell Chapman, a junior public relations major believes that the department can improve much more by bringing in more experienced and certified teachers into the department.
“The more professors that are hired, then that could mean that more courses can be offered,” Chapman said.
Braima, chairman of the mass communications department doesn’t see anything negative coming from all of the changes.