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| History of the
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information |
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| Assoc Prof Benjamin Detenber is appointed as the next Chair of the School, effective from 8 September 2008. |
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| The School hosts the
first World Journalism Education Congress in collaboration
with the Asian Media Information and Communication
Centre (AMIC) and the Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). |
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| The School is officially named as the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. More than $27 million is raised for the Wee Kim Wee Legacy Fund. |
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| The School welcomes Professor Peter Keen - one of the 100 top business "gurus" in the world. Dr Keen is here as a visiting Shaw Foundation Professor of Media & Technology. |
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Nanyang Chronicle celebrates its 10th anniversary.
NTU's President Su Guaning makes an official visit
to the School. |
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| Assoc Prof Ang Peng
Hwa is appointed as the next Dean of the School. |
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| The School is renamed
as the School of Communication and Information. |
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| The School expands to
include a fifth division - the Division of Information
Studies. A new curriculum introducing minors is
implemented. |
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| The school hosts the global IAMCR 2000 conference in Singapore for the International Association for Media and Communication Research. The conference is titled "Communication Beyond 2000: Technology, Industry and Citizens in the Age of Globalisation". |
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| The school graduates its first PhD candidate, and a $1.5 million endowed professorship is established by the Shaw Foundation to focus on new technologies. |
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| As part of its service to the media industry, the school graduates the first class of communication professionals enrolled in Master of Mass Communication degree programme. |
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| The faculty celebrates the graduation of the first class of undergraduate students who completed the school's four-year honours degree curriculum. |
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The School moves into a new $22.6 million building
at the western edge of NTU's Yunnan Garden Campus.
The gleaming, four-storey facility houses the latest
in print, audio/video, photo and multimedia technology. |
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| The school enrolls its
first PhD student; and a $4.5 million endowed professorship
is established in honour of former journalist and
Singapore's former president, Dr Wee Kim Wee. |
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A campus newspaper, The
Nanyang Chronicle, is launched.
The campus newspaper provides students with hands-on
journalism experience and to report on issues and
events of importance to the NTU community. |
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| The school enrolls its first class of 96 undergraduates and master's degree students. |
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| NTU establishes a free-standing School of Communication Studies and appoints Prof Eddie C.Y. Kuo, then head of the Mass Communication department at National University of Singapore, as the founding dean. |
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