Where are they now?

Joanne Arnold

Former associate dean Joanne Arnold (MA ’65, Ph.D. ’71) still loves to write, from e-mail notes to her two granddaughters and a great-grandson across the country to personal essays that might one day lead to a book. She continues to serve on several University committees and boards, chairing the external advisory board of the Women's Studies Program and remaining an officer of the UCB Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Alumni Chapter.

Arnold is an emerita member of the CU Faculty Council GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered) advisory committee and the UCB Chancellor's Standing Committee on GLBT Issues. She has just completed two terms as a trustee of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County.

Bruce Henderson

Former associate professor Bruce Henderson left the SJMC faculty in 2005 to become the communications coordinator for the University’s ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) Institute.

In that capacity, he also creates publicity materials. During the development of the institute, Henderson served on a number of ATLAS committees and also serves as an ATLAS fellow. The institute’s $31 million ATLAS Center, which houses broadcast and cable facilities used by the School, opened on the Boulder campus in 2006.

Ardyth Sohn

Ardyth Sohn, former SJMC associate professor, is now director of the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at UNLV in Las Vegas, where she oversees 700 undergraduates and 25 graduate students.

Sohn said she is every excited about her school’s new $90 million building that will be competed in 2009 and include a 200-seat auditorium designed for production of high-definition video and audio, an FM radio station, two high-definition digital TV performance and teaching studios and a media-convergence learning center where students create content across media platforms.

Before becoming director at UNLV, Sohn was a Fulbright scholar in Ukraine and said she just recently returned from Belgrade University, where she completed an outside review of Serbian journalism education. She said she will have two books published in 2007: “Prison City: Life with the Death Penalty in Huntsville, Texas,” written with Ruth Massingill, and the fourth edition of “Media Management: A Casebook Approach,” of which she is one of five authors.

Wick Rowland Jr.

Since leaving the SJMC in 1999, former dean Willard D. "Wick" Rowland Jr. has been president and CEO of Colorado Public Television’s PBS station KBDI-Channel 12 in Denver. He has led the refocusing of the station's mission as well as the restructuring of its management and of its fundraising priorities and efforts.

“It was a tough decision to leave CU,” Rowland said. “I’d spent over 20 years in university teaching and administration, and you don’t lightly give up a tenured full professorship at a Carnegie-I research university.

“But I also am passionately committed to public media in this country, and here in Colorado, at KBDI, we’re building a unique alternative and increasingly interactive community-oriented service that is helping broaden and reshape the PBS profile locally and across the country.

“That’s an exhilarating and very satisfying challenge.”

In 2006, Rowland received the Colorado Broadcast Citizen of the Year award from the Colorado Broadcasters Association.

At the end of his term as chair of the Affinity Group Coalition in 2006, Rowland was honored for applying “the eloquence of a learned lecturer, the diplomacy of a university dean, and the persistence of a station president” to lead the coalition through “a solidified governance process while addresses such perplexing system issues as PBS governance reform, digital rights.”