Department of Journalism
Kimpel 116
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-575-3601
E-MAIL CONTACTS:
Patsy Watkins, Department Chair
Carol Rachal, Alumni contact
how to apply
Facilities
The Lemke Department of Journalism, located on the first floor of Kimpel Hall, is striving to keep its students in a learning environment that educates and creates highly employable students. This is accomplished through the use of multimedia classrooms, computer labs, and in the case of UATV, a professional TV production facility.
Opened in the fall of 2007 is the J.B. Hunt Transport/Information Technology building, next door to Kimpel Hall. It includes digital video editing suites and a 40-seat screening room to support programs like documentary production. In early 2009, the screening room debuted The Buffalo Flows, a one-hour documentary written and produced by journalism professor Larry Foley.
Journalism student media have been allocated facilities to best involve students. The Arkansas Traveler, the student newspaper located on the first floor of Kimpel Hall, runs a fully functional news room with space for editors, reporters, photographers and production staff. KXUA, student-run college radio, is located in the Arkansas Union and provides students with the opportunity to participate in radio broadcasting in a professional environment. The Razorback, a student-produced yearbook also located in Kimpel Hall, is the oldest publication on campus and has won many awards.
The Sanders News Lab, located in Kimpel 119J and originally established decades ago with manual typewriters, is now a computer lab dedicated exclusively to courses in the newswriting curriculum.
The journalism department's other lab, Kimpel 115, is primarily used for multimedia production in classes like Creative Strategy and Web Design. It has more than 18 Windows-based computers equipped with software for design, web, photography, and video production.
Outside of the department, journalism students have access to the Multimedia Resource Center, a lab and support staff that provide software, hardware, and expert training, and any general access computer lab on campus.