Jan Dates
Jan Dates is dean of the School
of the of Communications at Howard University. Prior to her career at Howard,
Dates served as anchor and executive producer of a weekly television magazine
for the Baltimore, Maryland, NBC affiliate, WBAL-TV, and as executive producer
and host for a distance learning television series for Morgan State College as
well as several other broadcasting positions. Since serving as a Fellow at the
Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University in 1992, Dates' research
has focused on media images and effects, media treatment of African Americans
and similar multicultural groups, and the significance of diversity in media industries
and in higher education. Dates has co-edited a book, Split Image: African Americans
in the Mass Media, in which she authored six of the ten chapters and has several
book chapters and journal articles. Dates is a frequent speaker and panelist on
national television and radio programs, including CNN, CSPAN‚ NPR, BET‚ and others.
She has served in several positions for the Broadcast Education Association including
Vice Chair of the Board, 2000-2001. She serves as chair of the Black College Association,
an organization of many of the 39 Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCU‚s), which have communications programs.
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