Buildings, and a brief history
Stauffer-Flint Hall
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Dole Center |
Sudler Annex |
The first journalism course was offered
at KU in 1891, and journalism classes have been taught continuously
since 1903. In 1909, Chancellor Frank Strong authorized a
new department of journalism within the College of Arts and
Sciences. The journalism program retained that status for
many years.
In 1944, after the death of William Allen
White, the world-famous editor of the Emporia Gazette,
the Kansas Board of Regents established the William Allen
White School of Journalism and Public Information. The School
was among the first group of journalism programs to achieve
national accreditation in 1948. In 1982, the name of the School
was changed to the William Allen White School of Journalism
and Mass Communications.
The School moved into its present building
in 1952, when it was renamed Flint Hall in honor of Leon "Daddy"
Flint, a longtime teacher and department chair. The building
was again renamed Stauffer-Flint Hall in recognition of a
$1 million contribution for complete remodeling by Oscar Stauffer
of Topeka. Stauffer-Flint contains classrooms, computer laboratories,
faculty offices, the School's main administrative offices
and the news and business operations of the University
Daily Kansan.
In 1990, the School's Radio-Television
sequence moved into a section of the newly built Dole Center
for Human Development, with space for up-to-date classrooms,
laboratories and offices. The Dole Center contains production
studios for KUJH-TV, KJHK-FM and the Digital Jayhawk, classrooms,
faculty offices and computer labs, including audio and video
editing suites.
The air studio of KJHK-FM is in Sudler
Annex, about a mile from the two main buildings.
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