COLLEGE PARK, MD (July, 2016) President Obama reappointed UMD College of Education alumna Jannette L. Dates (Ph.D., '79) as a Member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Board of Directors. Dr. Dates, who received her doctorate in Educational Administration from the College of Education, will serve on the Board through January of 2022.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a nonprofit corporation created by Congress to oversee the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting. The largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related online services, CPB exists to help ensure the public’s access to high-quality, non-commercial content.
Jannette L. Dates
Dr. Dates, who was first appointed to the CPB Board in 2013, has held a number of leadership positions as a communications educator and as a commentator on African American images in mass media. She is the Dean Emerita of the Howard University School of Communications, where she served as a faculty member in the Department of Radio, Television and Film for many years, and a Community Advisory Board member for the Baltimore-based public radio station WYPR.
After she received a B.S. from Coppin State University, Dr. Dates began her career as a teacher in the Baltimore City Public School System. She entered the realm of television when she became a live television demonstration teacher for the school system in 1964, working with local television stations. In the 1970s, while an assistant professor at Morgan State University, she helmed a distance learning television series focused on African American history and culture, as well as served as anchor and executive producer of a weekly television magazine.
Dr. Dates established herself as a frequent speaker and panelist on national television and radio programs, where she discussed images and treatment of African Americans and other racial and ethnic groups in the media. The co-author of two books Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media (1993) and The Obamas and Mass Media: Race, Gender, Religion, and Politics (2013), she has held a number of leadership positions in the field of mass communications.
Dr. Dates completed her Ph.D. in Educational Administration at the UMD College of Education in 1979, after obtaining her M.Ed. from Johns Hopkins University.
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