First assignment

I'm writing about the new four hour curriculum and how I agree with it, but there's also a twist.

The twist is this: Yes, it's great that a new, more in-depth curriculum has been passed. But shouldn't that have been done long ago before fancy student centers and dorms started to go up?

I've ran into a few problems already. For example, HPU has grown and we obviously need more dorms to house the students. Also, some of the curriculum opportunities wouldn't be possible until new buildings are completed. But I believe that much of the new curriculum could have been passed long ago.

This is the first year that opinion writing has been offered at the university since the journalism program began in 2005. If a school has a journalism program, they desperately need an opinion writing class. Also, HPURadio.com just launched without the Nido Qubein School of Communication being opened. The school hasn't had a radio station for four years, yet we've created a make-shift radio station that runs just fine out of the Fine Arts Center. This is giving students experience in learning how to use microphone and promote the station.

I've gathered some quotes and information from Dennis Carroll about the new curriculum, and I've gathered some information about the university's transformation from the website. My next task is to interview students and faculty on campus to see what they think.

I also need to pick and stick with a structure, but that's been hard at the moment since I still need to get more quotes and more sides of the story.