Our Mission

Preparing Chico State students to be ethical, knowledgeable, responsible, versatile and engaged communicators.

What we teach

• Critical, creative and independent thinking.
• Professional standards and ethical practice of journalism and public relations.
• Leadership.
• Working with and conveying information to diverse communities.
• Appreciation for the history, purpose and relevance of the First Amendment and media law, including privacy, libel, copyright, intellectual property and freedom of information.
• Creating audience-appropriate content by conducting research via digital channels, interviewing, fact checking, writing across multiple platforms and engaging audiences with visual tools.
• The evolution of digital information and media technologies.
• Journalistic style, grammar and spelling, while editing with accuracy and consistency.
• Numeracy.
• Working in multidisciplinary teams to professionally package and transmit information via current and emerging technologies.
• Please see our 2019-2024 Strategic Plan (PDF) for more details. 
• Please see our Diversity Plan (PDF) for more details.