scholarly journals Assessment of Public Relations’ Practice of Edo State University Uzairue, Edo State, Nigeria

Author(s):  
Obinna Johnkennedy Chukwu

The study was carried out to assess public relations’ practice of Edo State University Uzairue. The study was predicated on Systems Theory (ST). The objectives were to determine the extent whether or not the Institution has a functional public relations department and to evaluate the extent of its public relations activities’ effectiveness, amongst others.  Interview schedule was used to elicit information from the public relations office headed by the public relations officer. Findings indicates, amongst others, that the University has a public relations office, but does not have public relations department, and that the extent of her public relations activities’ effectiveness is average, amongst others. Given the above and the enormity of the importance of public relations to the educational institutions, the study, thus, recommend that Edo State University Uzairue should set-up a PR department with its ancillary compliments; step-up, and also, utilise effective public relations strategies in order to achieve effectiveness in its public relations’ campaigns or activities.

Author(s):  
Peter Kakela

I applied for a job at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, because it was founded in 1970 to be “the public affairs university” in the country. There I set up a course in Citizens’ Action in Environmental Affairs because I realized that you can talk forever about respecting the environment but if you don’t get into the political workings of power, your talk will mean nothing. I began the course by showing the students a dozen bills that Illinois legislators were going to consider while our course was in progress. We talked briefly about what directions the legislators might take, and then I asked the students what bills they’d like to work on. I had imagined they would form several groups and work on different projects, but they all wanted to study the Illinois Beverage Container Act, what we called “The Bottle Bill.” One of the fellows was the host for the late show on the university radio station. He wanted to get something about the Bottle Bill on his program immediately, but I slowed him down. I wanted to train these students in thorough investigation. At this time a public hearing in Chicago on the Bottle Bill was announced. That was two hundred miles away. “Can we go?” said several students. “Sure,” I said, and gave a tape recorder to those who were going and a couple of tapes I had bought. They went, and came back from Chicago all excited. In class they played some of the testimony they had heard. “That legislator didn’t even know this—” said one student, mentioning a crucial point. I was determined that right from the start my students would know what they were talking about. They had strong opinions, but in this course they would have to get the data. They had to read journals and study the reason and logic behind all points of view. As a group we worked to get the stuff together to make a Fact Sheet to present to legislators, lobbyists, and anyone else we were going to approach. I knew that otherwise the experts and the legislators would pay no attention to us.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Risma Niswaty ◽  
Sri Wulandari ◽  
Sirajuddin Saleh ◽  
Muh. Rizal S

This study aims to determine the public relations strategy of Makassar State University in increasing the positive image of Makassar State University in the community. To find out these objectives, the researchers used a type of qualitative descriptive research. The informants in this study were as many as five people using data collection techniques carried out through observation, interviews and documentation. Data obtained from research results are processed using data analysis techniques consisting of data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. The results showed that Public Relations devised a strategy so that the function could run in accordance with the objectives of Makassar State University, among others, trying to create a conducive climate between institutions and the public in order to do persuasive and educative approaches to the public, trying to create two-way communication by disseminating information from institutions to public parties. educate and provide information, in order to create mutual understanding, respect, understanding and also strive to foster harmonious relations between organizations and various groups, both in and out relations to enhance cooperation. Public Relations seeks to socialize the Makassar State University mission to be accepted or received support from the public / public.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Narayana Mahendra Prastya

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis aktivitas hubungan media yang dilakukan oleh Universitas Islam Indonesia, saat kejadian Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII. Kejadian tersebut merupakan krisis karena tidak diduga, terjadi secara mendadak, dan menimbulkan gangguan pada aktivitas dan citra organisasi. Hubungan media adalah salah satu aktivitas yang penting dalam manajemen krisis, karena media massa mampu mempengaruhi persepsi masyarakat terhadap satu organisasi dalam krisis. Dalam situasi krisis sendiri, persepsi dapat menjadi lebih kuat daripada fakta. Batasan hubungan media dalam tulisan ini adalah dalam aspek penyediaan informasi yang terdiri dari : (1) kualitas narasumber organisasi dan (2) cara organisasi dalam membantu liputan media. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dengan mewawancarai wartawan dari media di Yogyakarta yang meliput Diksar Mapala UII. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa media membutuhkan narasumber pimpinan tertinggi universitas. Informasi yang diperoleh dari humas universitas dirasa masih kurang cukup. Dalam hal upaya organisasi membantu aktivitas liputan, UII dinilai masih kurang cepat dan kurang terbuka dalam memberikan informasi. The purpose of this article is to analyse the media relations activities by Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), related to crisis "Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII". This incident lead to crisis because it is unpredictable, happen suddenly, disturb the organizational activities, and make the organization's image being at risk. Media relations is one important activites in crisis management. It is because mass media could affect the public perception toward an organization. In crisis situation, perception could be stronger than the fact. The limitation of media relations in this article are information subsidies. Information subsidies consist of : (1) the quality of news sources that provided by the organization, and (2) how organization facilitate the news gathering process by the media. The data for this article is being collected from interview with journalist from the mass media in Yogyakarta. The results are media want the top management of the universities as the news sources. The information that being provided by public relations is not enough. The university also lack of quickness and lack of openess.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-302
Author(s):  
Evgenia Gennadievna Repina

The paper deals with the principles of organization of the Olympiad student movement in the Russian Federation, the author describes the purpose of the student contests in higher educational institutions of the country. The considered problem is solved in the process of identifying gifted students and pedagogical work with talented youth. The author describes benefits of student participation in the Olympiad movement, both for students and for institutions of higher education. The paper contains advantages and disadvantages of conducting these activities. The emphasis is on the features of Russian student Olympiads in mathematics, namely in such a subject area as probability theory and mathematical statistics. The paper also contains experience accumulated by the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Econometrics for conducting the Russian student Olympiad on the basis of Samara State University of Economics. To train the Olympic team of the University a computer simulator developed by the teachers of the Department is used. This software which is a graphical multi-window interface allows teachers to interact with students. The computer program contains tasks of previous Russian student Olympiads of various levels.


2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Carlson

It is no secret, unhappily, that the study of theatre in the colleges and universities of this country is a discipline under siege, but the severity of the problems received strong confirmation in New York State this fall when two of the most distinguished and long-established (over a century in both cases) programs in the country were, with little warning, faced with draconian cuts or outright extinction. The fact that one, the state University of Albany, was the flagship school of the public system, and the other, Cornell University, was one of the state's most distinguished private institutions, suggests the scope and impact of these actions. At Albany, four other programs are being terminated along with theatre—Classics, Russian, Spanish, and French—while at Cornell the extent of the severe cuts imposed on the theatre program—almost a quarter of the total budget of the department (which also shelters dance and film)—are being suffered by no other program in the university. The prominence of these two schools in a state that has long claimed a central position in American theatre makes them particularly significant symbolically of a discipline in crisis, and this has impelled me to engage in serious and sometimes painful reflections on that discipline, the basis of the present essay.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
E. E. SHVAKOV ◽  
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N. M. OSKORBIN ◽  
O. P. OSADCHAYA ◽  
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...  

The article substantiates the need for integration interaction between educational institutions and enterprises of the real sector of the economy, defines its modern directions. The article analyzes one of the practices of interaction between universities and industrial enterprises of the Altai territory. The article describes the activities of the Altai state University in cooperation with industrial enterprises of the region. A study of the interaction of the University and industrial organizations of the Altai territory in the field of personnel training, as well as in the field of research and development works is being conducted. The article describes the main results of the work of the Altai state University, carried out in the interests of the development of industrial production in the Altai territory. The article describes the results of the University's activities in terms of: modernization of its educational system, creation of innovative enterprises, research activities to develop new technological solutions for the development of industrial production in the region.


2011 ◽  
pp. 1223-1230
Author(s):  
Diane Chapman

Formal university-based distance education has been around for over 100 years. For example, Cornell University established the Correspondence University in 1882, and Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts in New York was awarding degrees via correspondence courses in 1883 (Nasseh, 1997). Soon many other educational institutions, including the University of Chicago, Penn State University, Yale University, and John Hopkins University, were offering these nontraditional learning options for their students. Many institutions then moved to instructional telecommunications as the technology matured. With the entry of the personal computer into homes and workplaces in the 1980s, learning started to become more technology driven. But it was not until the 1990s, with the proliferation of the World Wide Web, that the concept of technology-enhanced education began to change drastically.


Author(s):  
Diane D. Chapman

Formal university-based distance education has been around for over 100 years. For example, Cornell University established the Correspondence University in 1882, and Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts in New York was awarding degrees via correspondence courses in 1883 (Nasseh, 1997). Soon many other educational institutions, including the University of Chicago, Penn State University, Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University were offering these non-traditional learning options for their students. With the entry of the personal computer into homes and workplaces in the 1980s, learning started to become more technologydriven. However, it was not until the 1990s, with the proliferation of the World Wide Web, that the concept of technology-enhanced education began to change drastically.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Troeshestova

The article addresses the problem of organizing Olympiads and competitions for schoolchildren and students by the University to identify and support them in their individual educational and career trajectory, with the participation of employers in the region. To solve this problem, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University is implementing a number of projects in the partnership system «school – University – enterprise». The article highlights the activities of the Centre for working with the talented youth of I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University aimed at realization of the strategic project roadmap of the University «Formation and development of the complex for popularization of promising careers, engaging and support of the talented youth in the system of multilevel anticipatory staff training». The article describes a unique experience in organizing academic Olympiads and creative design contests for schoolchildren in conjunction with innovative enterprises of the Chuvash Republic, among which are: «Hope of Chuvashia electrical engineering», «Hope of Chuvashia mechanical engineering», «Builders of the future », «Electronics 4.0», «IT-Ring». Winners and prizeholders of these academic Olympiads and contests get involved into the work of professional navigational guidance platform of the University «Center for career planning». Currently, the University is actively working on adaptation and introduction of the tutorship model. Key indicators of Olympiad movement efficiency in the network of cooperation with enterprises are provided. An analysis of these indicators makes it possible to conclude that various academic Olympiads and competitive activities for schoolchildren held together with enterprises-partners increase the number of winners and prize-holders of the highest level academic Olympiads entering the University. The article also discusses the forms of supplementary education for gifted schoolchildren and their teachers-tutors. It is stated that the value is not holding Olympiads and identifying talented schoolchildren, but regular classes with them in clubs and in supplementary education courses. It is concluded that by attracting talented graduates of secondary educational institutions to enter the University and their active participation in student Olympiad movement organized in partnership with leading innovative enterprises, the problem of professional elite developing in the region is successfully being solved.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Mukaromah Mukaromah ◽  
Amida Yusriana

<p>Mass media is one of the media publications to the public in the formation of the Image. Important positive images are formed to foster public trust. News in the newspaper media is still interesting to be appointed in an effort to build a positive image of educational institutions. In addition to targeting the masses of young people, higher education institutions also target parents who are still familiar with conventional media such as newspapers. The case study in this study was Dian Nuswantoro University (Udinus) and news in the Suara Merdeka newspaper. Suara Merdeka is interesting to be appointed because the local  central Java newspaper has amounts of printing and is still an alternative reading in the Central Java region where this segmentation is in line with Udinus segmentation which is domiciled in Semarang, Central Java.<br />This study aims to analyze the theme of news that often arises about the institution, the frequency of occurrence of coverage in certain periodizations. Furthermore, this can be observed how the reporting of a media that has the power to shape the image of the institution. The method used is quantitative content analysis, which describes how the contents of the media using thematic and physical recording units are analyzed using the concept of public relations about media and the formation of the image of the institution.<br /> <br />The result can be seen that there are 9 sections in Suara Merdeka which present Udinus related news, namely Semarang Metro rubric, Edukasia, Screen, Page 1, Business Economy, Around Young Tugu, Salatiga News, Youth Voice Expressions. Screen Rubric occupies the highest position in the news, which is 70.3%. For the<br />theme that is often reported, there are four types of reporting, namely news related to the world of academics (products), related to environmental responsibility (CSR), reporting related the environment and reporting related<br />to the activities of communicating the activities of the institution.</p><p> </p>


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