“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” We like this slogan from the City News Bureau of Chicago. It illustrates strong commitment to the traditional tenets of journalistic excellence. Great journalism begins with a tireless search for the truth.
While our program holds fast to the most enduring principles of journalism, we remain on the cutting edge of technology and maintain state- of- the- art labs for writing, editing, design, photography, and online research. Our skills- based approach has the explicit mission of producing the state’s most …

Public relations is a unique major in that it encompasses many important aspects of the business world. Public relations practitioners are instrumental in counseling all types of organizations on how to make strategic decisions, communicate with their many publics, and build strategic relationships. Whether it be an organization providing employees, consumers, investors, and/or the media with crucial information, or a company facing immediate crisis, public relations serves as an active part of organizations’ strategic management. Students majoring in pubic relations at Auburn University enter the career field proficient in the …

Isaac Taylor Tichenor (1825-1902) :: From chaplain in the Confederate Army to pastor of the First Baptist Church of Memphis to the presidency of Auburn, Isaac Taylor Tichenor guided the institution from a denominational, liberal arts school to a state-supported, land-grant college.
Tichenor, a Kentucky native, was Auburn’s third president, 1872-82.
Catching the vision of the new education, he sought to establish curricula which would influence the development of agriculture and teach students how to construct and control machinery toward harnessing and utilizing Alabama’s immense resources and improving the condition of her …

Auburn University was established in 1856 as the East Alabama Male College, 20 years after the city of Auburn’s founding. In 1872, under the Morrill Act, the school became the first land-grant college in the South and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1899 the name again was changed, to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Finally, in 1960 the name of the school was changed to Auburn University, a title more in keeping with its location, and expressing the varied academic programs and larger curriculum of a …