 |
Linda Lee |
| Classes: advertising,
broadcast news, international marketing communications |
| First
year at KU: 1984 |
| Degrees: BS,
journalism, University of Florida; MA, journalism,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| Honors: HOPE
Award |
“The students and teachers really get to know each
other on an individual level” — Linda Lee, on travel
abroad
Linda Lee has three items hanging on the wall behind her
desk: a picture of her daughter, a picture of her son and her
HOPE Award. Lee refers to all three as "My awards."
However, Lee has accomplished much more than her wall may indicate.
In the fall of 2000, Lee was the first J-School faculty member
to travel to Italy to teach in the Consortium of Universities
for International Studies program in Paderno
del Grappa. She said traveling abroad was a fabulous opportunity
for students and teachers.
"The students and teachers really get to know each other
on an individual level," Lee said. "I was acting as their
teacher, counselor and sometimes mother."
Lee said traveling abroad could broaden anyone's horizons.
The Italy program works particularly well for students, she
says, because they can take journalism classes and stay on
track for graduation.
Before coming to the University of Kansas, she served as
the director of corporate public relations for Home Box Office
in New York.
"Working in the cable industry is exciting," Lee said. "HBO
was a wonderful run."
In 1984, she joined the broadcast journalism faculty at KU.
She served as the chair of the committee that developed the
business communications emphasis for the J-School, and later
she began teaching advertising classes. Lee became the advertising/business
communications sequence head and has taught a wide range of
courses from advertising to broadcast news to international
marketing communications. |
