We’re in the midst of a mental health crisis — one that has reached epidemic proportions. Universities, the place I work, are in many ways ground zero.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 1 in 5 American adults live with a mental illness. That’s 46.6 million people. The situation is particularly acute in younger populations like Gen Z, where rates of anxiety...
In the United States and many other places around the world, we are seeing the fragmentation of societies, the emergence of extremism, populism, and the clustering of like-minded people into hostile camps deeply suspicious of the other’s values and motives.
One result of this fragmentation has been a kind of governmental paralysis in which major problems go unsolved. Yet polling data...
Critical Media Project (CMP) is a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity and representation. CMP has a two-fold mission:
to raise critical... Read more
We all know the statistic: The makeup of the public relations industry is more than 70% women; yet, just 20% occupy senior-level leadership positions in agencies or corporate communications departments.
What can we do to improve this? A two-day workshop organized by the Center for PR strived to propose innovative solutions to address the gender disparity. The 2019 Lead On! Women in...
The annual scholarship honors the agency’s founder and CEO Noemi Pollack
The Pollack PR Marketing Group (PPMG) announced today the creation of The Noemi Pollack Scholarship, which will annually award a partial tuition scholarship to an undergraduate student pursuing a major or minor in public relations at the University of Southern California’...
Willow Bay, USC Annenberg Dean and Jim Steyer, CEO Common Sense, shared findings of their latest report, The New Normal: Parents, Teens, and Mobile Devices , at the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City, Mexico on Oct. 1, 2019.... Read more
The New Normal: Parents, Teens, and Mobile Devices Around the World is a multi-year research collaboration between USC Annenberg and Common Sense designed to advance cross-cultural exploration of family digital media engagement.Read more